When Thinking Starts Making Noise
As speech-to-text tools become eerily good, they are changing not just how we write, but how we think, remember, and inhabit private space
CA
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Artificial Intelligence
The Machine That Must Not Kill
A Vatican encyclical on artificial intelligence offers India an unexpected framework to think about sovereignty, autonomous warfare, algorithmic governance and the human costs of unchecked AI systems
AD
Anindya Dutta
Founder | Two Roads and author
·FF Life
When Thinking Starts Making Noise
As speech-to-text tools become eerily good, they are changing not just how we write, but how we think, remember, and inhabit private space
CA
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Artificial Intelligence
The Price of Intelligence
The final part in our series on the Future of Work and Agentic AI: why AI is changing the economics of intelligence itself
AB
DM
Arjo Basu & Debleena Majumdar
·FF Life
The Drift Towards Busyness
A management consultant reflects on how modern corporate life slowly rewards motion without intentionality—and why protecting space for life beyond work has become a conscious discipline.
NS
Nikhil Sethi
Advisor on strategy and transformation
·FF Life
The “Chill Maadi” Family that Made It Across the World’s Highest Hikeable Pass
A Bengaluru family with no mountaineering background spent eight months preparing for the Annapurna Circuit—and discovered that ordinary people may be capable of far more than they imagine.
SS
Sanjay Swamy
Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Prime
·Economy, Policy & Society
Reform 3.0: What Has to Change
India doesn’t need another reform agenda. It needs an economy that makes building, hiring, and growing easier.
HC
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Economy, Policy & Society
Reform 3.0: Why India Keeps Missing the Mountain
India didn’t falter for lack of ideas or ambition. It faltered because too many parts of its economy were never aligned toward the outcome that mattered most—productive work at scale.
HC
Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
FF Life
Curated weekend reads and thoughtful essays for leaders who think deeply.
The Drift Towards Busyness
A management consultant reflects on how modern corporate life slowly rewards motion without intentionality—and why protecting space for life beyond work has become a conscious discipline.
NS
Nikhil Sethi
Advisor on strategy and transformation
The “Chill Maadi” Family that Made It Across the World’s Highest Hikeable Pass
A Bengaluru family with no mountaineering background spent eight months preparing for the Annapurna Circuit—and discovered that ordinary people may be capable of far more than they imagine.
SS
Sanjay Swamy
Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Prime
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