https://10xtechnologies.ca/ Field notes on digital transformation, AI strategy, and technology — published as we go. en-us Fri, 28 Aug 2026 03:52:38 GMT https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-08-10-the-optimists-are-just-early.html https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-08-10-the-optimists-are-just-early.html Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Ask a room to describe technology in single words and most of what you get back are bruises — from people who, asked individually, are hopeful. The gap is not pessimism. It is timing: costs arrive specific and now, benefits arrive vague and later. https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-08-04-most-risk-plans-are-made-of-reminders.html https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-08-04-most-risk-plans-are-made-of-reminders.html Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Open any risk register and you find policies, training and sign-offs — controls whose entire mechanism is a person remembering something on their worst day. Occupational safety ranked these decades ago, and almost nobody applies the ranking to anything else. https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-08-03-who-builds-it-is-the-last-question.html https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-08-03-who-builds-it-is-the-last-question.html Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Vendor or our own people? Buy or build? MVP or full programme? Those arguments are downstream of two questions nobody asked — and AI bends both of them in ways that invert the usual case for hiring professionals. https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-07-06-claude-code-zero-to-hero.html https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-07-06-claude-code-zero-to-hero.html Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A practical guide to Claude Code — from connecting a GitHub repo in the browser and shipping from your phone, to running a team of AI engineering agents with context, subagents, MCP, hooks, and loops. https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-07-06-action-output-value.html https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-07-06-action-output-value.html Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI just made output nearly free, so we're about to drown in competent, useless slop. When output is commoditized, value is the only thing left worth measuring — and action is the only work that produces both value and the learning that compounds. https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-07-05-the-intelligence-paradox.html https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-07-05-the-intelligence-paradox.html Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A baseball player catches a fly ball with no idea of the calculus. A text-only AI 'knows' a dropped glass shatters. Our intuitions about what's hard and easy for intelligence are backwards — and it should change how you adopt AI. https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-06-20-the-risk-of-ai-creativity-conformance.html https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-06-20-the-risk-of-ai-creativity-conformance.html Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT What happens when we outsource creative thinking to AI? A look at the quiet risk of intellectual conformity. https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-06-19-five-questions-to-ask-your-board-about-ai.html https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-06-19-five-questions-to-ask-your-board-about-ai.html Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT A new free facilitation tool: a deck of perspective-shifting governance questions for board and executive conversations about AI — starting with the bluntest one of all. https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-06-19-the-software-explosion.html https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-06-19-the-software-explosion.html Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Every era of the internet multiplied the world's content. AI's next act is to do the same thing to software itself — and a world of abundant software rewards very different things. https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-06-19-the-s-curve.html https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-06-19-the-s-curve.html Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Growth doesn't come in a straight line — it comes in S curves. A new free tool to visualise the slow start, the steep climb, the payoff, the plateau, and the catalysts that move you to the next one. https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-06-19-the-expectation-treadmill.html https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-06-19-the-expectation-treadmill.html Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Every technology leap quietly resets the baseline of normal. Yesterday's wow becomes today's bare minimum — which is why standing still means falling behind. A new free tool to see it in motion. https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-06-14-the-digital-strategy-toolkit.html https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-06-14-the-digital-strategy-toolkit.html Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Ten guiding principles, a KPI library, and a twelve-dimension decision spectrum — the reusable building blocks of a digital strategy, free to explore. https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-06-11-sixteen-mental-models.html https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-06-11-sixteen-mental-models.html Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Sixteen interactive mental models for thinking clearly in a fast-changing, AI-saturated world — from entropy to inversion. https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-06-04-the-digital-maturity-pyramid.html https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-06-04-the-digital-maturity-pyramid.html Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI is the top of a pyramid, not a shortcut. You can't leapfrog the layers — but you can speed-run them. https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-05-28-the-cost-of-waiting.html https://10xtechnologies.ca/newsletter/2026-05-28-the-cost-of-waiting.html Thu, 28 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Technology costs fall, value compounds, and the advantage window closes. Wait too long and you do all the work for none of the prize.