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Using AI at Work and School Without Outsourcing Your Judgement
"Check the output" is advice nobody can actually follow. Deloitte Australia handed a government department a A$440,000 report citing academic papers that were never written. Here is where the checks actually belong — what to decide before you prompt, what to protect while you work, and what to verify before anything leaves your hands.
corporatesurvivord
Sep 138 min read
The World Is Building Walls Again. Singapore Is Betting on Bridges.
The world is reaching for tariffs and calling it resilience. Singapore looks exposed on paper, yet keeps landing in the "resilient" column — not by luck, but by staying useful to everyone choosing sides. What that means for banks and jobs.
CorporateSurvivorDiaries
Aug 124 min read
Why Businesses Are Betting on Chinese AI Despite the Warnings
DeepSeek costs a fraction of what Claude or GPT charge per token — sometimes ninety times less. That's why Chinese open-weight AI models have quietly become a serious enterprise option, not just a curiosity. But cheap doesn't mean risk-free: from data residency to model behaviour, self-hosting solves some problems and not others. Here's how businesses are actually navigating the trade-off — and what Singapore's regulators expect you to show for it.
CorporateSurvivorDiaries
Jul 295 min read
General Risk Management
All Green on Paper
The maintenance records said Bishan's flood pumps had been checked. They hadn't. Through SMRT's tunnel flood, the SingHealth cyberattack and Hin Leong's hidden losses, this post shows why culture is the control above every control, and how a rotten one lets problems slip past every line of defence at once. It ends with practical steps for organisations and individuals.
corporatesurvivord
Sep 207 min read
Singapore Beat the Sprint. The Scammers Switched to a Marathon.
Singapore's scam losses are falling — but pyramid schemes, pump-and-dump stocks, and sextortion cases show the real gap isn't detection. It's what happens when a correctly flagged scam gets waved through by the very person it targeted.
CorporateSurvivorDiaries
Sep 65 min read
Why Singapore Fights Inflation With the Exchange Rate, Not Interest Rates
Singapore has chosen a different monetary-policy playbook from most major economies. Rather than targeting a domestic interest rate, MAS uses the Singapore dollar’s exchange rate as its primary tool for managing inflation. That distinction matters far beyond monetary economics: it shapes import costs, export competitiveness, borrowing conditions and the way businesses should read every MAS policy decision.
corporatesurvivord
Aug 195 min read
Technology & Cybersecurity
Using AI at Work and School Without Outsourcing Your Judgement
"Check the output" is advice nobody can actually follow. Deloitte Australia handed a government department a A$440,000 report citing academic papers that were never written. Here is where the checks actually belong — what to decide before you prompt, what to protect while you work, and what to verify before anything leaves your hands.
corporatesurvivord
Sep 138 min read
Singapore Beat the Sprint. The Scammers Switched to a Marathon.
Singapore's scam losses are falling — but pyramid schemes, pump-and-dump stocks, and sextortion cases show the real gap isn't detection. It's what happens when a correctly flagged scam gets waved through by the very person it targeted.
CorporateSurvivorDiaries
Sep 65 min read
Bitcoin Is Back in the Headlines. Here's Why Your Risk Register Should Care.
Bitcoin just broke $80,000 for the first time since May, fueled by a US regulatory push, softer yields, and a billion-dollar short squeeze. But the market pricing this rally doesn't believe it'll hit a new high — and neither should your risk register. Here's what the surge actually means for Singapore businesses and individuals, pillar by pillar.
CorporateSurvivorDiaries
Aug 264 min read
Work Survivor Techniques
The Restructuring Is Real. Whether You Should Worry Depends on One Thing
The restructuring era is here — and it's not indiscriminate. It's finding the people who stopped moving with their organisation. A reflection on jumping from enterprise risk into cybersecurity, why hard skills only get you so far, and the one thing that's actually kept me relevant.
corporatesurvivord
Jul 215 min read
The Roti Prata Boss: How to Navigate a Difficult Manager Without Losing Yourself
We've all met one. The boss who changes direction without warning, rejects your work before reading it, and agrees in the meeting only to question it in writing. This is what it's really like — and how to navigate it without losing yourself.
corporatesurvivord
Jun 34 min read
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