- Canada’s AI for All Strategy: A Skeptical Guide to the Hype, the Money, and the Missing Guardrails
A refreshed skeptical guide to Canada’s June 4, 2026 AI for All strategy: what Carney and Solomon promised, what later coverage added, and where the public should keep asking for receipts.
- AI Keynote Slides Need Taste Before Prompts
My creative operating system for turning raw talk notes into prompts, graphics, slides, websites, posts, guides, and other artifacts without letting AI flatten the work into generic slop.
- Agent Orchestrators, Creative Insurgents & The New Stack
A field guide for film, animation, and creative workers learning to orchestrate AI systems without surrendering taste, judgment, or authorship.
- The Long Road to Futureproof
Futureproof has been rattling around in my head for years. The difference now is that Vancouver has the people, the trust, and the room to make it real.
- The AI Mindset: Adapting to the New Creative Paradigm
A field note on the AI mindset: thinking with machines without surrendering taste, agency, or the human weirdness that makes the work worth doing.
- You Can’t Drink Data
Kris Krug marches in Vancouver’s first anti-AI, anti-data-centre protest, and argues that ‘shut it all down’ and ‘more compute, trust us’ are the same dead end. A West Coast vision for building AI differently.
- Make Culture, Not Content
Generative engines now spill out adequate everything. Your value is shifting from production to selection, orchestration, and meaning-making — a field manual.
- Why Judgment Beats “Creativity” in the AI Era
Generation has been commoditized. Selection hasn’t. The DJs figured this out in the ’80s — taste is the moat.
- Calling Us All In
I started day three with my neck out, published “Sovereign AI for Whom?”, a critical piece on the federal data centre announcement, my name and face on it, and spent the rest of the day finding out it was the right call.
- Web Summit Vancouver 2026
Vancouver’s AI community is showing up this week. So should the public metrics.
- Punk Rock AI
Most AI conversations force a binary. Boosters say embrace it. Doomers say resist it. Both feel lazy.
I hold the critique in one hand. I hold the capability in the other. That is the only honest place to stand right now.
- Applied Ethical AI: Responsible AI Professional Certification (RAP)
4 weeks. Built with Martin Lopatka and Sarah Downey. First cohort starts May 22. Wrote up the whole story… the gap, the collaborators, what’s actually in it, and the honest notes about the pilot.
My creative operating system for turning raw talk notes into prompts, graphics, slides, websites, posts, guides, and other artifacts without letting AI flatten the work into generic slop.
A field guide for film, animation, and creative workers learning to orchestrate AI systems without surrendering taste, judgment, or authorship.
Futureproof has been rattling around in my head for years. The difference now is that Vancouver has the people, the trust, and the room to make it real.
A field note on the AI mindset: thinking with machines without surrendering taste, agency, or the human weirdness that makes the work worth doing.
Kris Krug marches in Vancouver’s first anti-AI, anti-data-centre protest, and argues that ‘shut it all down’ and ‘more compute, trust us’ are the same dead end. A West Coast vision for building AI differently.
Generative engines now spill out adequate everything. Your value is shifting from production to selection, orchestration, and meaning-making — a field manual.
Generation has been commoditized. Selection hasn’t. The DJs figured this out in the ’80s — taste is the moat.
I started day three with my neck out, published “Sovereign AI for Whom?”, a critical piece on the federal data centre announcement, my name and face on it, and spent the rest of the day finding out it was the right call.
Vancouver’s AI community is showing up this week. So should the public metrics.
Most AI conversations force a binary. Boosters say embrace it. Doomers say resist it. Both feel lazy. I hold the critique in one hand. I hold the capability in the other. That is the only honest place to stand right now.
4 weeks. Built with Martin Lopatka and Sarah Downey. First cohort starts May 22. Wrote up the whole story… the gap, the collaborators, what’s actually in it, and the honest notes about the pilot.