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Charles Assisi

Mumbai

Columnist at Hindustan Times

Co-Founder at Founding Fuel

Writing Ninja. Co-founder Founding Fuel (big ideas, big convos). Columnist Hindustan Times (debate starter). Co-author of The Aadhaar Effect

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  • 1 week ago | hindustantimes.com | Charles Assisi

    Tap a screen, and groceries land at your door. Click a button, and a cab arrives. Swipe right, and a world of entertainment unfolds. The interface is smooth, the experience seamless. But look closer, and you’ll notice something peculiar: a hand behind the curtain is constantly nudging you. Sometimes gently. Sometimes hard enough to tip you into decisions you didn’t know you were making.

  • 2 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Charles Assisi

    Every night, just before sleep, he gets into bed. The house is quiet. The lights are dim. As his family sleeps, he opens Evernote, to write in his diary. The man is me. What follows is a story about how, after 12 years of maintaining a diary, I found that something had changed. The habit started quietly, as so many life-altering things do. Not in a blaze of insight or a firm resolve, but during a season when nothing felt right. I didn’t know whom to talk to, or what to say if I did.

  • 2 weeks ago | htsyndication.com | Charles Assisi

    Posted On: 2025-05-24 Posted By: Charles Assisi Health & Lifestyle Technology Cities Real Estate & Construction Hindustan Times India, May 24 -- You can sense the fatigue in the room when climate tech founders in India talk about raising their next round. It's not just the familiar startup tension of chasing capital.

  • 2 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Charles Assisi

    You can sense the fatigue in the room when climate tech founders in India talk about raising their next round. It’s not just the familiar startup tension of chasing capital. It’s the slower, more bruising disillusionment of people who built something difficult, often scientifically solid, and now find themselves stranded. Not because they failed to deliver, but because the ecosystem around them failed to catch up. The numbers tell part of the story.

  • 3 weeks ago | htsyndication.com | Charles Assisi

    Posted On: 2025-05-17 Posted By: Charles Assisi Health & Lifestyle Travel Technology Hindustan Times India, May 17 -- The mango trees in Fort Kochi are heavy with fruit. A crow lets out a sharp caw from a branch overhead. The skies, bloated with the weight of the southwest monsoon, threaten to burst.

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Charles Assisi
Charles Assisi @c_assisi
12 May 25

RT @htTweets: #HTwknd ✨| Listen, Don’t Leap: Coping With Opposing Worldviews ‘I’ve tried passionate arguments, and silence. I’m now embrac…

Charles Assisi
Charles Assisi @c_assisi
5 May 25

What rubbish! These guys are the most expensive who can't deliver Kochi to Mumbai in a day. Just burnt my hands on an important document Should have opted for speed post or any other regular courier that doesn't claim the moon and charge Rs 380 for it.

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Charles Assisi
Charles Assisi @c_assisi
4 May 25

RT @TheMaineWonk: This is Gene Seroka. He runs the Port of Los Angeles. Listen to Gene. The supply shock is coming. https://t.co/Ug…