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David Truss
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A husband, a parent… An educator, a student… A thinker, a dreamer… An agent of change.

I blog daily here: http://daily-ink.davidtruss.com
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Healthy Living Goals – 2025 Reflection
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Healthy Living Goals - 2025 Reflection
It’s that time of year again where I go to my big tracking calendar and add up my totals for the year. Once again I was very consistent with my workouts and meditation, and I’ve yet again main
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January 2, 2026 at 6:44 AM
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The year that was
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The year that was
In the grand scheme of things the end of a year is arbitrary. It does not sit on a solstice, it has no real significance in the dance of the planets around our sun. It’s simply a date on the Gregorian
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January 1, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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Accept and place
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Accept and place
I heard this phrase and it really struck a chord with me: "Accept people as they are, but place them where they belong." There are 2 really big ideas here. First, we are often quick to want
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December 31, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Blast from the past
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Blast from the past
Tonight I’m going to watch a Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon laser show. I think I was between 16 and 18 the last time I saw a show like this, so it has been at least 40 years. I find it amusing
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December 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Slow to go
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Slow to go
My resting heart rate will often drop to around 50bpm when I’m lying down and below 55 when sitting still for a while. I just checked my pulse on my watch and sure enough it’s showing 55bpm right now.
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December 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Find your Everest
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Find your Everest
Today’s title inspired by Dave Sands. We had just completed our weekly training as we prepare to ‘Everest the Crunch’ (walking up the Coquitlam Crunch 37 times in 48 hours, to climb the equivalent
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December 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Tracking training
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Tracking training
I’ve got to say that I love my new watch, the Garmin Venu 4. I’ve been very interested in tracking my training, but have only been tracking my number of training days until getting the watch. Now I ge
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December 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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A chance to be with family
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A chance to be with family
I love getting together with family over the holidays. It’s a chance to focus on being together, eating, and being merry. 2025 hasn’t been easy, and it’s nice to spend the end of the year with the peo
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December 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Form sustenance to enjoyment
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Form sustenance to enjoyment
One thing I’m really looking forward to in retirement is food prep. Right now meals are a chore. I need to eat, food doesn’t make itself and it’s too expensive to eat out all the time. So I make food.
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December 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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In and out
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In and out
I joined a gym, and I took advantage of a deal to get 5 sessions with a trainer, for a great price. My trainer had me download MyFitnessPal, an App to track my calories and macros. I’ve been using thi
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December 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Post truth era
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Post Truth Era
Never mind the ridiculous videos of Mr. Rogers chatting with Tupac Shakur or Bigfoot vlogging, these AI videos seem real enough while fully intending us to know they are AI. What we are seeing now is
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December 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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The next installation in the Book of Codes series that I’m working on with Joseph Truss.
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Foundational Geometry of the Cosmic Matrix in the Tetraverse
This is the next installation in the Book of Codes series that I do with Joe Truss. 'Foundational Geometry of the Cosmic Matrix in the Tetraverse' https://youtu.be/vHyNbJ2sKY8 It's an easier
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December 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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No Authenticity Without Sincerity
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No Authenticity Without Sincerity
I was listening to the Modern Wisdom podcast with Chris Williamson and he said something that really struck a chord with me, “…society is obsessed with authenticity and terrified of sincerity.”
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December 21, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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The upside down bell curve
The bell curve, also known as a normal distribution, is a graph that depicts how values in a dataset are distributed. Most values cluster around the average with fewer values appearing at the extremes
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December 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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A disturbance in the force
(Sorry Star Wars fans, this is just about maintaining your habits when schedules go awry)
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A disturbance in the force
I’ve been feeling ‘off’ on top of issues getting a good night’s sleep, and that has thrown my schedule out of whack. Compounding this, I just joined a gym and the just over 30 minutes commute time to
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December 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Babel fish
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Babel fish
I remember reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and wishing there was an actual Babel fish, a small yellow fish you could put in your ear and instantly translate any language so you heard it i
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December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Power naps
I sat down to write, put some relaxing music on, and fell asleep before a word was put on the page. I’ve had a lot going on personally and the net effect is that I’m not sleeping well at night. I’m no
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December 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Light but right
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Light but right
I just joined a gym and they had a great promotion on 5 sessions with a personal trainer, so I took advantage of the deal. Today I met my trainer, but not until after I’d already done the Coquitlam Cr
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December 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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To be ever better you better never…
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To be ever better you better never…
In his book Atomic Habits, James Clear shares the idea of getting 1% better. What’s fascinating about this is that the evidence of improvement is not something you see early on. Going to the gym 6
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December 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Too quick to ban
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Too quick to ban
Laws create outlaws. The moment you’ve banned cell phones in schools is the moment you admit that you’d prefer teachers to police student rather than teach them. 15 years ago I was living in Ch
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December 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Digital dog sitter
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Digital dog sitter
I went to a store yesterday after work. It was a cold, rainy evening and already dark at around 5:30pm. I picked up the couple items I came for and headed back to my car. Just as I was getting in, I h
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December 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Finding meaning
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Finding meaning
“The meaning of life is to give life a meaning.” Viktor Frankl I sometimes think we spend most of our lives like Santiago, the protagonist in Paulo Coelho’s book, The Alchemist… seeking a treasure
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December 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Take action despite fear and doubt
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Take action despite fear and doubt
This weekend I had the opportunity to see Chris Williamson speak at the Vogue Theatre. A few things he said seemed to circle around a theme of taking action despite fear and doubt. Here are some of
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December 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Mind muscle connection
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Mind muscle connection
I’m a poster boy ‘non-example’ of why you should put kids into sports early. I grew up on a tropical island with no organized sports. When I moved to Toronto my parents didn’t know that kids were put
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December 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Recalibration time
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Recalibration time
I bought a new watch and when setting it up, I messed up. I got on the treadmill to do a walk and it asked me to calibrate by sharing the distance I walked. I took the distance in miles and converted
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December 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM