David Truss

Dystopian hiring We aren’t that far away from a rather dystopian world where so much of our lives are monitored and recorded that we will be an open book. Imagine going for a job interview and before you arrive

Dystopian hiring
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Reimagining Schools Since November I've been connecting, every few weeks, with Will Richardson and a group of educational leaders from around BC, Canada in a professional development session run by the BCPVPA (BC Princip

Reimagining Schools
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Bad back At the end of Grade 9 I was 4’11” and at the end of Grade 10 I was 5’6.5” tall. I grew 7.5” in 1 year, and during that growth spurt my back torqued a bit giving me mild scoliosis. That year, and for a

New post on my Daily-Ink,
‘Bad back’

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Intentionally disconnected Is it just me that has been intentionally disconnecting from the news and even social media around the war in the Middle East? I truly understand my privilege in saying this, since I don’t have lov

Intentionally disconnected
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Robots, robots, everywhere In the world of robots two things are happening at lightning speed: Capabilities - A year ago humanoid robots were clunky, unstable, and for lack of a better word, robotic. Production - A yea

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Is Artificial Intelligence Reducing Our Intelligence? Joe Truss shared a great article with me, 'The hidden cost of letting AI make your life easier', by Shai Tubali on Big Think. Towards the end of the article, Shai shares this: "[Sven Nyholm's] deeper

Is Artificial Intelligence Reducing Our Intelligence?
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Pushup update The goal was 3,000 pushups in February. My buddy Dave and I decided we’d do 120 a day over 25 of the month’s 28 days. However, when we were 15 days in and hadn’t missed a day, I upped the ante and sai

Pushups update
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Parents as Partners This week we had a student IEP (Individualized Education Plan) meeting with a family. It was a meeting that really could not have gone better. It involved both parents and an advocate, myself and thre

Parents as Partners
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Appreciate the tiny wins Tiny wins are often hard to see. They don't seem significant, but they accumulate. James Clear explains in Atomic Habits that 1% better daily will compound into becoming 37 times better in a year.

Appreciate the tiny wins
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Understanding my limits I’m dealing with a form of sciatica down my leg that is triggered from standing up. I spent the majority of my adult life avoiding sitting, and now it’s sitting that gives me relief. I’m also dealing

Understanding my limits
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Live a Lifetime in a Day I love this metaphor for how to live a meaningful life, “Live a lifetime in a day,” shared by Harvard physician Dr Aditi Nerurkar on The Diary of a CEO podcast. I took the liberty of emphasizing each

Live a Lifetime in a Day
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Specialist appointment My hearing isn’t great. Compounding this is the fact that I have tinnitus. It used to be in one ear, now both. It used to be something I could ignore, now it’s ever-present. I miss silence. I’ve pr

Specialist appointment
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Working weekend I’m at school putting the final touches on a presentation I have to give tomorrow. The presentation is to the Ministry as part of a quality assurance process for provincial online schools. I find that

Working weekend
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More health data tracking A while ago my wife bought a Hume scale. You pull a handle with sensors up from the base, stand on the scale while holding the handle, and it gives health data far beyond what a simple weight scale do

More health data tracking
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Breakfast meetings I really think that the opportunity to ‘break bread’ at a meeting makes the meeting special. Breakfast and lunch meetings are more than a chance to get work done, they are also an opportunity to conne

Breakfast meetings
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Cat ritual Meet the co-author of this blog, Oliver the Cat. He greets me at the couch at around 5:15am, and will meow if I don’t put my legs up on the table. When they are horizontal, he jumps up on my legs and

Cat ritual
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Chore masters I grew up watching the Jetsons, expecting that one day I’d get to travel around in flying cars. And in this cartoon, the Jetson family had a robotic maid named Rosie, who was always cleaning up behind

Chore masters
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We are ONE One of my favourite ancient texts is the Tao Te Ching. In it ‘The Way’ cannot be named, because to name it is to separate it from itself, to identify a part rather than the whole. Jesus said, “God

We are ONE
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Blogging Reader Revival I’m not ready to do it, but maybe someone out in the blogosphere can. Do you know what we need? A revival of Google Reader. Somebody with a paid version of a good AI coder needs to get on this. Build

Blogging Reader Revival
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What's the real AI risk in education? I read a great article on LinkedIn by Ken Shelton. He looked at two articles: "On one side: AI as productivity infrastructure. On the other: AI as compliance enforcement. But in both cases, the

What’s the real AI risk in education?
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Path to Nowhere We all do it. We choose a path that doesn’t take us where we want to go… a path to nowhere. Endless scrolling on social media. Binge-watching shows instead of pursuing hobbies. Saying yes to e

Path to Nowhere
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Oblivious to what's coming If you talk to people about LLM's like ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Claude, you'll still hear things like, 'They hallucinate and will make up fake research', and something I heard recently, 'they actually

Oblivious to what’s coming
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Share less tragedy We don’t have to feign naivety and pretend something horrible didn’t happen. Sad things happen in the world and we need to understand this. What we don’t need is a constant flow of news and a detailed

Share less tragedy
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Health advice rollercoaster Coffee is bad for you, no wait, it’s good for you! A glass of read wine a day is good for your heart health, no wait, any amount of alcohol is unhealthy! Drink fruit juice, it’s high in vitamins, no w

Health advice rollercoaster
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Moths to the flame Chris Williamson recently shared this quote: “You pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world.” — Jay Alto Our fixation is intense. We cling

Moth to the flame
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Parenting adults As an educator, I’ve seen the struggle some parents have with creating boundaries. For example, there are parents who don’t parent because they don’t want to undermine their friendship with their kid.

Parenting adults
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Fiscal year end squeeze Globally, we’ve seen jumps in prices in the last year that are unsustainable. It seems like everything in the grocery store is more expensive, and prices seem to continue to creep up. The impact must

Fiscal year end squeeze
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More rest I’m going to physiotherapy. I’m going to massage therapy. I’m doing my stretches and exercises. And I’m still dealing with leg pain that gets triggered from standing. Until a week ago I could just sit

More rest
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Not if, when The only thing I use AI for when I write my blog is to make an accompanying image. I don’t use it for editing, and as a result I’ll often not notice a typo, or I’ll create a sentence that doesn’t flow

Not if, when
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Tragedy Tourism I don’t know how widespread the use of this phrase is, but I heard it and to me it is exactly why I struggle to pay attention to the news. The phrase is ‘tragedy tourism’ and it refers to the constant

Tragedy Tourism
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