Independent Insight on Canadian Tech and Infrastructure
Independent analysis of Canadian telecom, IT, and AI. Exploring infrastructure, policy, regulation, and the technologies shaping Canada’s digital future.
Leadership · 13 min read
I came across a cartoon on LinkedIn this week. A small museum gallery, four glass cases on plinths. Lines of Code, with a tall stack of fanfold paper inside. Story Points, with a Fibonacci sequence of...
Matthew Gamble
ai · 11 min
"Last week" (https://mgamble.ca/p/sovereign-ai-is-the-new-space-race-canada-just-brought-a-sparkler) I argued that sovereign AI was the new space race and that Canada was bringing a sparkler to the...
Matthew Gamble
3d-printing · 16 min
A few months into life as an "executive" in my day job, I have noticed something. The further up the org chart you climb, the less actual building you get to do. Meetings get longer. Decks get...
Matthew Gamble
iot · 10 min
You never know what you are going to find in a comment section. Most days, the answer is nothing useful. Every once in a while you stumble into a thread that sends you down a different path...
Matthew Gamble
ai · 9 min
Earlier today the Prime Minister stood up in Toronto and "launched AI for All" (https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/06/04/prime-minister-carney-launches-ai-all-canadas-new-national-artific...
Matthew Gamble
dns · 9 min
Lou over at louwrentius.com "recently published a thoughtful piece" (https://louwrentius.com/dns-is-for-people-not-for-it-infrastructure.html) arguing that DNS, while useful for public-facing...
Matthew Gamble
microsoft · 5 min
If you have ever sent me an email, you have probably noticed that my address is "[email protected]". The local part is my name. The domain is my name. Combined, they say my name twice. Most people...
Matthew Gamble
ai · 13 min
Google Drive sent me one of those notifications a couple of weeks ago. Storage full. Time to clean up. So I started poking through the corners of my drive looking for things to delete, and that is how...
Matthew Gamble
Hard Conversations · 9 min
I was visiting a friend recently who had just bought a new microwave. I went to open it to reheat a coffee, and I could not. I pulled the handle. Nothing. I pulled harder, in case the thing was just...
Matthew Gamble
Hard Conversations · 8 min
Thirty years ago I worked in a movie theatre. The schedule went up on a clipboard in the back office every Friday for the following week, and I learned very quickly that there were two kinds of yes...
Matthew Gamble
ai · 7 min
A while back I watched a mid-size company announce, with great fanfare, that AI was going to take their vendor onboarding process from twelve weeks to four. For those not familiar with vendor...
Matthew Gamble
Reflections · 5 min
Apparently my brain hears what it wants to hear, and I rarely ask follow-up questions. This blog is usually pretty serious. AI taking over the world, governments regulating the internet, the...
Matthew Gamble