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Best of Founding Fuel 2025

A selection of our most enduring essays and conversations.

11 Articles
72 min read
Updated 15/3/2026

Editor's Note

Each year, some pieces linger—not because they captured the news cycle, but because they helped make sense of it. This Collection brings together a selection of Founding Fuel’s most enduring work from 2025, across essays and conversations that continued to resonate over time.

These stories explore the deeper currents shaping business, policy, technology, and society. They surface structural shifts, unresolved tensions, and moments where judgment mattered more than certainty.

Together, they reflect Founding Fuel’s distinctive lens: journalism that slows the conversation down, adds context, and resists easy conclusions in a world increasingly optimised for speed.

(This Collection reflects our editorial judgment at a point in time. We revisit and refine it as our thinking evolves.)

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Nuance is the new differentiator
·Technology & the Future

Nuance is the new differentiator

When every team has access to the same AI tools, your advantage will be in knowing what wasn’t said

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Shrinath V

Shrinath V

Founder, The Salient Advisory

The Quiet Drift Toward Precarity
·Economy, Policy & Society

The Quiet Drift Toward Precarity

What the rise of contract labour reveals about the health of India’s factories — and the future of India Inc.

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Vineet Kaul

Vineet Kaul

HR Advisor and Mentor

The Paradox of Excellence
·Leadership & Organisation

The Paradox of Excellence

How IndiGo’s greatest strengths created the conditions for the December 2025 crisis — and what it reveals about the limits of high-performance systems. Part One of a two part special series

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Satish Pradhan

Satish Pradhan

Independent Consultant

The Government Works—Just Not How You Think
·Economy, Policy & Society

The Government Works—Just Not How You Think

The government is not as a machine to fix, but a living system to serve: a conversation with Subroto Bagchi, entrepreneur, author, and public servant

Who Will Win the MAGA Crown?
·Economy, Policy & Society

Who Will Win the MAGA Crown?

Three competing visions inside the MAGA movement—over AI, immigration and national sovereignty—may determine America’s technological doctrine for the next decade

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Sundeep Waslekar

Sundeep Waslekar

President

The Year the World Learned to Live Without America
·Economy, Policy & Society

The Year the World Learned to Live Without America

How Trump’s tariffs, Europe’s capitulation, China’s counter-moves and India’s narrowing room for manoeuvre reshaped the global order.

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Dinesh Narayanan

Dinesh Narayanan

Independent journalist

Alive in the In-Between
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

Alive in the In-Between

Inspired by Brisbane’s “Vibrantly Vacant” windows—on how renewal begins in life’s pauses

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Kavi Arasu

Kavi Arasu

Leadership and Talent Development Professional

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