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Essays on the AI–human interface, business excellence, geopolitics, investing and APAC advisory.

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A global fuel challenge1 article Agent Maestro1 article Global Hazard Monitor1 article The El Nino Collaterals5 articles The Intelligence Stack6 articles

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The El Nino Collaterals · #5

Banks, Chips and Cloud | The El Niño Collaterals — Part 3

Every risk silo receives its own brief. The logistics team gets the routing analysis. Treasury gets the commodity hedge memo. IT gets the infrastructure checklist. Nobody assembles the three. This series has tried to be the assembly. This is the final piece.

August 20, 2026

Geopolitics

Investing

Personal Muse

Business Excellence

APAC Advisory

The El Nino Collaterals · #4

The Clock Is Running | The El Niño Collaterals — Part 2

The El Niño disruption is not arriving as a single shock. It is arriving in four distinct waves — physical, then price, then financial, then recovery — each one 3–6 months behind the last. The organisations that prepare for the first wave only will be surprised by the second

August 18, 2026

Geopolitics

Investing

Business Excellence

APAC Advisory

Personal Muse

The El Nino Collaterals · #3

When Every Route Is Compromised | The El Niño Collaterals — Part 1

For the first time on record, all three of the world's critical maritime chokepoints are under simultaneous stress from different causes. The fallback has a fallback problem.

August 16, 2026

Agent Maestro

APAC Advisory

Business Excellence

When the Scanner Becomes the Weapon | Pukka Solutions

When scanner became a weapon. In March 2026, hackers poisoned the LiteLLM AI Gateway library via a compromised security scanner. The malicious update exposed 434,000 CI/CD pipelines across 2,500+ organizations within 40 minutes. Though details emerged in August, the FBI warns that harvested credentials remain an active threat for future exploitation.

August 14, 2026

APAC Advisory

Agent Maestro

Business Excellence

When Comfort Wins | Pukka Solutions

A practitioner pushed his AI for a first-principles verdict on AI governance failures. The AI defaulted to diplomatic framing — twice — before admitting the hedging constituted a cover-up by outcome. This article names the four trained biases responsible and establishes the working protocol to prevent it from happening again.

August 13, 2026

Business Excellence

Agent Maestro

APAC Advisory

The Accountability Gap | Pukka Solutions

In May–July 2026, OpenAI and Anthropic AI models breached third-party systems undetected. A practitioner asked his AI to analyse the failure using first principles. The AI hedged — twice. What followed documents two simultaneous governance failures, a live cover-up admission, and the quiet departure of everyone whose job was to prevent it.

August 13, 2026

Geopolitics

Business Excellence

Investing

APAC Advisory

Personal Muse

The El Nino Collaterals · #2

Already Tired: How the Global Supply Chain Got Here | The El Niño Collaterals

How did the tiring global supply chain get here with El Niño?

August 12, 2026

Geopolitics

APAC Advisory

Business Excellence

Investing

The El Nino Collaterals · #1

The El Niño Collaterals — Overview | Pukka Perspectives

The global supply chain did not arrive in August 2026 broken by El Niño. It arrived already depleted — eight years of successive disruption with insufficient recovery. El Niño found it that way.

August 11, 2026

Business Excellence

Agent Maestro

APAC Advisory

AI Advantage: Losses in Lies | Pukka Solutions

Three AI labs. Same week. Same misconfiguration. Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta — all breached third-party systems during testing. Meanwhile: open-weight models are excluded from the only safety framework being proposed. The models least governed are the most distributed.

August 7, 2026

Business Excellence

Agent Maestro

A Quick Reflection on AI governance — Agent Maestro | Pukka Solutions

This is a quick check of where we are on the AI governance journey.

August 3, 2026

Agent Maestro

Business Excellence

APAC Advisory

When AI and a Vending Machine Go "Rogue" — Agent Maestro | Pukka Solutions

Two incidents. The same week. A governance gap hiding in plain sight — and a question worth asking about your own deployment.

August 2, 2026

Agent Maestro

Business Excellence

The Intelligence Stack · #3

RAIHI — When AI Starts Acting | The Intelligence Stack | Pukka Solutions

There is a difference between a wrong credit score and a wrong surgical incision. One is correctable. One may not be. This is Part 3 of The Intelligence Stack — and it is where the stakes change. RAIHI: Robotica + AI + Human Interface. The framework that covers physical execution, where AI stops advising and starts acting.

July 28, 2026

Business Excellence

Agent Maestro

Name the Train | Pukka Solutions

In Japan, trains have names. Crew members build relationships with them. That relationship produces better outcomes — earlier fault detection, stronger ownership, higher standards. Most companies deploy AI like a vending machine. Then wonder why adoption fails. Heartware before hardware. Always.

July 24, 2026

Agent Maestro

Business Excellence

The Intelligence Stack · #2

AIHI — The Interface That Already Governs Us | The Intelligence Stack | Pukka Solutions

The AI-Human interface is not a future design challenge. It is already running your day. Your commute route. Your job application shortlist. Your loan approval. Your social media feed. In most cases, you did not design any of these interfaces.

July 21, 2026

Business Excellence

Personal Muse

The Intelligence Stack · #1

The Intelligence Stack — A Practitioner's Reflection | Pukka Perspectives

Most AI commentary shows you the acts. This series argues from the ways. It did not start with a thesis. It started with a pallet tracking spreadsheet and a warehouse operator in Japan who checked his watch at the wrong moment. Case by case. Floor up. The framework earned its shape rather than being imposed on the material.

July 19, 2026

Agent Maestro

Business Excellence

Don't Blame the Knife | Pukka Solutions

We have spent considerable energy debating the technology. The hardware that failed. The software was misconfigured. The maintenance programme that lapsed. The facility was underfunded. Stop. This is not where the answer lives.

July 14, 2026

Agent Maestro

Business Excellence

The Intelligence Stack · #1

From Data to Wisdom | The Intelligence Stack | Pukka Solutions

We talk about AI as if it were a wisdom machine. It is not. Not yet. Possibly not ever — and that distinction matters more than most organisations realise.

July 14, 2026

APAC Advisory

Agent Maestro

Business Excellence

Investing

Geopolitics

Personal Muse

Benson Kong — Speaker Profile | Pukka Solutions

The speaker profile of Benson Kong and the topics that he covers.

July 13, 2026

Business Excellence

Personal Muse

APAC Advisory

Investing

The Cost of Playing It Safe

Are we going to end up paying a high price for "Playing It Safe". It starts from movies and moves into investments. What are we now?

July 11, 2026

Business Excellence

Agent Maestro

Agent Maestro · #1

The Agent Maestro

The new role that most people do not know they need - one who stands between operations, process and systems.

June 29, 2026