My Waypoint Technologies Inc.

09/18/2026

It's Official: MyWaypointDigital.ca is Live

After months of planning, designing, writing, testing, auditing, and more coffee than I'd like to admit, I'm excited to announce that MyWaypointDigital.ca is now live.

This project wasn't just about building another website.

It was built around a simple idea:

Helping organizations make better digital decisions through practical guidance, transparent consulting, and accessible design.

Inside you'll find:

✅ Website design and digital consulting services
✅ Design Lab tools and resources
✅ Educational guides and workbooks
✅ Practical advice for organizations navigating websites, accessibility, AI, privacy, and digital strategy

Every page was built with accessibility, transparency, and plain-language communication in mind.

I'd love for you to take a look and let me know what you think.

🌐 www.mywaypointdigital.ca

Now the real adventure begins.

Practical, privacy-first digital consulting for Canadian organizations. Websites, data services, CMS, and AI readiness.

09/11/2026

Fast Fact Friday: Corporate Jargon Edition

Corporate jargon is basically a second language — and half the time, nobody knows what it means.

• It’s a workplace dialect.
Meant to streamline communication… but usually creates more fog than clarity.

• Some phrases mean the opposite of what they sound like.
“Boil the ocean” → Don’t try something huge and pointless.
“Punting” → We’re not playing football — we’re giving up.
“Breaking down silos” → No grain involved.

• Jargon spreads like memes, not strategy.
Teams repeat phrases until they become culture — even if nobody can define them.

• It gatekeeps newcomers.
Onboarding often feels like decoding a secret society.

• Some jargon actually helps.
“Bandwidth.” “Low‑hanging fruit.” “Circle back.”
Used sparingly, they do save time.

My favorite piece of corporate nonsense:
“Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes.”
Translation: Ask someone if they like the idea.

Happy Friday — may your synergy be aligned and your bandwidth be optimized.

09/09/2026

Waypoint Wednesday: AI Is Rewriting the Workflow

AI‑generated infographics aren’t a gimmick anymore — they’re changing how teams produce and share information.

Writers finish an article → AI builds the visual summary.
Marketers finish a campaign → AI makes the social graphics.
Educators finish a lesson → AI creates the explainer.

The results?

Design time down 85%, engagement up 200%, and “paste‑a‑link, get‑a‑visual” tools are becoming standard.

AI isn’t replacing designers — it’s replacing the blank canvas.

Teams aren’t starting from scratch anymore. They’re starting from something.

09/04/2026

Fast Fact Friday:
In 2026, internal audits across multiple industries found that TLDR behavior is responsible for nearly 40% of preventable mistakes — not because information wasn’t available, but because employees didn’t actually read it.

The pattern is simple:

Long emails → skimmed

Long policies → ignored

Long instructions → improvised

Long reports → misunderstood

And every skipped paragraph becomes a hidden risk.

The real issue isn’t attention span — it’s information design. When teams drown in unstructured, inconsistent communication, TLDR becomes a survival instinct.
That’s why platforms like MyWaypoint emphasize turning complexity into clarity — because clarity isn’t a luxury; it’s a risk‑control mechanism.

TLDR isn’t laziness.
It’s a signal that your communication pipeline is broken.

09/02/2026

Waypoint Wednesday: The C‑Suite’s AI Vision vs. Reality

The C‑suite has big AI dreams.

Huge.

Galaxy‑brain visions of transformation, automation, and “AI doing all the work.”

And then the invoice shows up.

According to recent surveys, 82% of executives investing in AI are now worried about token usage and runaway costs, and 98% have already had to rethink their entire AI strategy once they saw the bill.

Translation:
The C‑suite thought they were buying a robot intern.

Turns out they were buying a metered supercomputer with the appetite of a golden retriever left alone with a Costco-sized bag of kibble.

BCG’s latest report says companies are now scrambling to figure out:

- why their AI budget looks like a phone bill from 1999
- why every department is suddenly “experimenting” with models
- why nobody can explain what they’re spending or why

and why the CFO keeps whispering “make it stop” into their coffee

The truth?

AI isn’t expensive because it’s complicated.
AI is expensive because nobody planned for it.

The tech works.
The vision is big.

But the financial literacy around AI?

Let’s just say… the meter is running, and leadership is still looking for the off switch.

Fifth wave of EY US AI Pulse Survey reveals the majority of senior leaders are reconsidering their approach due to token costs, and many are developing custom in-house software

08/28/2026

Fast Fact Friday: Homelabs aren’t niche anymore — they’re becoming personal data centers.

- Homelab adoption is up 40%, hitting 12 million users worldwide in 2026
- Monthly homelab spending jumped from $37 to $112 in three years — not inflation, just more gear and more complexity
- 52% of homelab users have switched to ARM servers, cutting power consumption by 60% compared to x86 setups
- 68% of homelabs now run 10GbE networking, pushing transfer speeds to 1.25 GB/s on cheap used Mellanox cards
- 62% of new homelabs start with Raspberry Pi 5 clusters, often running Nextcloud, Home Assistant, or local AI models
- Hybrid self‑hosting is now the norm for 56% of homelabbers, mixing local compute with cloud relays like Cloudflare Tunnel and Tailscale

The punchline?

Homelabs have quietly become the fastest‑growing “infrastructure hobby” on the planet — and one of the only places where people are actively reclaiming privacy, sovereignty, and control over their digital lives.

08/26/2026

Waypoint Wednesday: Online Privacy Is Getting Stress‑Tested
Online privacy isn’t “disappearing” — it’s being stress‑tested by the systems we keep building.

Canada’s Privacy Commissioner just released the 2025–26 annual report, and the trend is clear:

AI, connected services, and digital platforms are collecting more personal data than our privacy frameworks were ever designed to handle.

A few signals worth noting:
Privacy complaints are sharply up
Children’s digital privacy is now a frontline issue
Major platforms are being forced to change practices
Regulators are adopting AI tools of their own

The takeaway?

Privacy isn’t a policy page — it’s infrastructure.
If your systems don’t respect privacy by design, your policies won’t save you.

https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/ar_index/202526/ar_202526/

© His Majesty the King in Right of Canada for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, 2026Catalogue No. IP54-122/206E-PDFISSN 978-0-662-32160-6

08/21/2026

Fast Fact Friday: 92% of jobs now require digital skills, yet one‑third of workers still lack basic digital literacy — meaning most people learn digital fundamentals after they’re already employed, not before.

In a world where every job is a digital job, digital literacy shouldn’t begin at orientation.

It should begin in school — long before the login screen.

https://www.sci-tech-today.com/stats/digital-literacy-statistics/

Digital Literacy Statistics - Around 40% productivity lift, about 250% ROI within 18 months, and 20-30% higher employee engagement too.

08/19/2026

Waypoint Wednesday: Claude Watermarking Gave Me Flashbacks to Microsoft FrontPage

Claude watermarking is all over the news right now, but honestly? It feels exactly like the early‑2000s era of Microsoft FrontPage.

If you were building websites back then, you remember the moment:
You’d hand‑craft clean HTML… FrontPage would “helpfully” add mystery tags, hidden comments, and auto‑generated metadata… And suddenly your code had a personality you didn’t ask for.

Watermarking is the 2026 version of that.

Claude isn’t “marking your content as AI.” It’s just adding a subtle, machine‑readable layer that says:

“A tool touched this.”

Same as FrontPage. Same as Dreamweaver. Same as every generation of tools that quietly added metadata behind the scenes.

The work didn’t change — the ecosystem did.

Anthropic’s announcement: How Claude’s text watermark works -
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark

Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark. This is a way of determining the likelihood that Claude was involved in writing the text, and we, along with several other major AI providers, are implementing this change to comply with the EU AI Act. In this article, we share answe...