About
Technology change fails when organizations and individuals follow the technology instead of leading with an outcome in mind.
That's not a theory. It plays out constantly — in government departments chasing platform migrations nobody asked for, in individuals locked into subscriptions they don't understand and can't easily leave, in organizations that have built their entire operations on infrastructure they don't own and are beginning to realize they can't fully trust.
The question that should come first almost never does. Not "what's new" or "what is everyone else doing" — but what are we actually trying to do, and how does technology help us do it better?
This site exists to work through that question. Carefully, honestly, and without a predetermined answer.
Who this is for
Two kinds of people end up here.
The first is an individual navigating a technology decision that feels bigger than it should — which device, which platform, which service, how to reduce dependency on a single provider, how to think about privacy and data without becoming paranoid. If you've ever wished you had a knowledgeable friend who could just think through it clearly with you — no sales pitch, no jargon, no agenda — that's what the Trusted Guide content here is built for.
The second is someone inside an organization facing a technology transition that is equal parts technical, political, and cultural. An IT leader, a project manager, a consultant, a government director who has to explain to a deputy minister why the migration is three months behind. If the hardest part of your work isn't the technology itself — it's the people, the politics, and the gap between what was promised and what's actually happening — you're in the right place.
Both audiences deserve the same quality of thinking. Both deserve someone who shows up without a predetermined answer.
Who I am
I'm Bill Christie. For twenty-five years, across film and television production, property management, and the federal government, I've been doing the same work under different job titles: finding organizations and individuals who are dependent on technology they don't fully control or understand, helping them figure out what they actually need, and navigating whatever stands between them and a better situation.
The technology changes. The work doesn't.
I've helped creative professionals survive the analog-to-digital shift in TV production. I've led a 2,500-unit property management company through a full transition from outsourced IT to self-managed infrastructure. I've deployed iPads to Service Canada centers nationwide during a pandemic, and I've run a macOS pilot into a major federal department — work that succeeded technically and got dismantled by internal politics. That last one cost me more than I expected. It also taught me things I couldn't have learned any other way.
I'm building this practice because the question I've been answering for twenty-five years — who controls your technology, and what does that actually mean for how you operate? — has never been more urgent than it is right now.
What you'll find here
Four kinds of content, published twice a month:
Sovereignty — the stakes and the problem. Why the technology dependency question matters now, and what it actually costs. Sovereignty isn’t only geopolitical — it’s also about whether you can actually own, move, and control your own data.
Navigation — the practice. How technology change actually works, at both the organizational and individual level. Honest about complexity. Specific about what makes it hard.
Trusted Guide — practical help for individuals. Clear thinking on technology decisions without the jargon.
The Long Game — honest reflection on what it means to build something deliberately, in a world that rewards speed.
The commitment
The goal is never to be needed. It's to leave people more capable than I found them.
If that sounds like the kind of thinking you're looking for, subscribe below. New posts go out on the first and third Thursday of each month.
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