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Articles

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

Series

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

Investing

Geopolitics

Personal Muse

APAC Advisory

Weekly Market Brief — 21 Sep 2026 | Through My Asian Lens

Weekly market brief that covers Economic Calendar, Earnings featuring Costco, S&P500 technical analysis and my investing muse as we pick on trending topics from the week.

September 20, 2026

Geopolitics

Investing

Business Excellence

APAC Advisory

Personal Muse

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

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

Personal Muse

Benson Kong — Musician Rate Card

Singapore based saxophonist, mentor and arranger who plays music from blue's, Rick, pop, jazz, retro and more. From Pink Floyd to Beatles, Sinatra, Alicia Keys and Blues Brothers.

July 23, 2026

Personal Muse

The Comparison Trap — An Ancient Answer | Pukka Solutions

The Comparison Trap — An Ancient Answer through a Biblical Lens. What is the answer? Gratitude and Contentment?

July 19, 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

Personal Muse

Hey Bro, Wanna Hang? — The Book | Benson Kong

This is not a research paper. Not a clinical study. Not a self-help manual with a ten-step framework. It is a man who chose to be vulnerable — in real time, over several years, through Instagram posts and Substack essays — about what it means to navigate friendship, purpose, loss, faith, fatherhood, and the slow drift that happens when men stop checking in with each other.

July 15, 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

Personal Muse

Knowledge Puffs Up — But Love Edifies

Knowledge Puffs Up — But Love Edifies - the navigation around entitlement, progress, pain and more.

July 9, 2026

Personal Muse

Investing

Leverage at the Limit: Global Margin Debt in Mid-2026

The world leans into leverage and what would be the price we pay?

July 7, 2026

Personal Muse

One Wrist. Three Watches. No Seamaster — Yet.

One Wrist. Three Watches. No Seamaster — Yet. Some watches are functional, some are good goals to have. There is one that mean so much more.

July 4, 2026

Personal Muse

Watch Personality Analyser

What does your watch say about you?

July 4, 2026

Personal Muse

The Comparison Trap

Do we understand the science and logic behind comparison? Comparison in terms of benchmarking is helpful for work and research, but comparison has its dark side too.

June 29, 2026

Geopolitics

Personal Muse

Investing

Weather Anomalies 2026

Weather anomalies and how this can impact our lives and our livelihood.

June 29, 2026