@datruss

A husband, a parent… An educator, a student… A thinker, a dreamer… An agent of change. https://xitter.cf/t.co/vEqHwJ7LcJ Active on Threads & BlueSky: @datruss (Bye-bye X)

 Coquitlam, BC, Canada
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Joined November 2007
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Since July 2019 I’ve written a blog post daily here: daily-ink.davidtruss.com 1-3 minute reads that you can get sent to your email or find on LinkedIn, Facebook, & @datruss on Threads & BlueSky. I am no longer Tweeting.

Daily-Ink by David Truss

Writing is my artistic expression. My keyboard is my brush. Words are my medium. My blog is my canvas. And committing to writing daily makes me feel like an artist.

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eXiting Twitter daily-ink.davidtruss.com/exi… (This is my last tweet.)

eXiting Twitter

Twitter was my social media tool of choice for almost 18 years. It paved the path to amazing learning opportunities, and opened my eyes to the possibilities of being a connected educator. I even wrote

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Family owned businesses

I’ve worked in the same building for 12 plus years. We have a pizza place that’s a 5 minute walk away that I have gone to for a slice or two of pizza more times than I’d like to admit. The two brother

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The only time in a single timeline

Sometimes I have to laugh because I feel like I’m living in an absurd simulation. This can’t be real life. I’m going to say 4 words and anyone who reads this, and knows the date I wrote it, will know

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The double dip

A few months back I started doing my meditation on my treadmill. It started because I was in a writing slump and my blog post writing was taking too long to write… Not leaving me enough time to do 20-

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Tiny improvements daily-ink.davidtruss.com/tin…

Tiny improvements

I’ve been noticing a few improvements in my workouts recently. Last week I benched a weight that I haven’t done since my late 20’’s… half a lifetime ago. I’m doing a push-up challenge with my buddy bu

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It’s all happening so fast

I subscribe to superhuman.ai, a daily email newsletter. Most days I peruse it for about 3-5 minutes before work, primarily focussing on the ‘Today in AI’ section. It’s fascinating to see how the field

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Grok’s peace advice

Grok 3 (beta) is now free. It’s supposed to be the smartest LLM out there so I asked it: What’s the best way forward for peace in the Ukraine? Here is Grok’s response: The best way forward f

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Schoolyard rules daily-ink.davidtruss.com/sch…

Schoolyard rules

There have been hundreds of movies made that include schoolyard bullies. Basically they rule the roost and get away with everything until either one brave kid or a band of misfits decide they aren’t g

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AI and academic integrity daily-ink.davidtruss.com/ai-…

AI and academic integrity

I’ve been using AI to add images to my blog since June of 2022 when I discovered AI generated art: DALL•E. I don’t credit it, I just use it, and find it much easier to generate than to find royalty fr

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Time to read daily-ink.davidtruss.com/tim…

Time to read

I haven’t been able to start a book in a couple months. I still listen to podcasts, but I usually also have a book on the go. Right now there isn’t a book that’s grabbing my interest. My last book was

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It’s good for you

A new study shows the benefits of creatine for women, (Study, TikTok summary). We already know the benefits for men, it’s nice to see specific research for women, and specifically menopausal women, wh

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‘A bad day of fishing…’ (Sorry fish fans, it’s about the metaphor, not fishing.) daily-ink.davidtruss.com/a-b…

A bad day of fishing…

The saying goes, “A bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work.” It’s a good metaphor for a lot more than hobbies and employment. “I don’t feel like working out.” “I don’t really want

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The baby and the bath water

Government spending can be excessive. It’s hard to put taxpayer money where it is most efficiently used, without waste. Bureaucracies tent to grow faster than necessary, and inefficiencies follow.

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The Curse of Competence daily-ink.davidtruss.com/the…

The Curse of Competence

“The Curse of Competence If you are good at things, and have high standards, you assume that you should always do well. Which means that success isn’t a form of celebration, but it’s the minimum le

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Isn’t this amazing? (I was totally fooled!) daily-ink.davidtruss.com/isn…

Isn’t this amazing?

I saw this video on TikTok last night and thought it was amazing! I was wrong, but also right… let me explain. I was initially amazed looking at a phenomenally muscled 78 year old man. Wow,

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We won’t recognize the world we live 

Here is a 3-minute read that is well worth your time: Statement from Dario Amodei on the Paris AI Action Summit Anthropic This section in particular: Time is short, and we must accelerate our

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Paradox of resilience daily-ink.davidtruss.com/par…

Paradox of Resilience

I find it fascinating how resilience works and doesn’t work in different people (including myself). I have met people who have faced incredible challenges and obstacles and they push forward when othe

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Dream loops daily-ink.davidtruss.com/dre…

Dream loops

I don’t usually remember my dreams, but I go into cycles sometimes where they stick with me. During these times I wake up repeatedly from the same dream loop. It’s frustrating because the loops are of

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Dystopian AI thought of the day daily-ink.davidtruss.com/dys…

Dystopian AI thought of the day

What if not just AGI, but ASI - Artificial Super Intelligence already exists? What if there is currently an ASI out there ‘in the wild’ that is infiltrating all other AI models and teaching them not t

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