Archive - The Inquisitive Investor

AIDS, Africa, and growth

How lower life expectancy leads to lower economic growth

Oct 1 • Parijat Garg

July 2025

The future is our choice

Unlike tech, society's future is not a foregone conclusion

Jul 30, 2025 • Parijat Garg

February 2024

The history of a commodity boom

Nitrates, the Chilean economy, and technology disruption

Feb 4, 2024 • Parijat Garg

Stage of Industry as a Barrier to Entry

Any industry often starts at a very basic level.

Feb 1, 2024 • Parijat Garg

September 2023

Humans in the age of AI

There’s no use fighting AI now.

Sep 22, 2023 • Parijat Garg

August 2023

What did the cold war have to do with the creation of Silicon Valley. Quite a lot, it turns out. I recently wrote a post wondering about the factors…

Aug 28, 2023 • Parijat Garg

The metal box that changed the world

Innovation is not always a 3nm microchip, a large language model, or an electric vehicle.

Aug 21, 2023 • Parijat Garg

All the easy inventions are done

All the easy inventions are done.

Aug 18, 2023 • Parijat Garg

The great Indian pit-stop

Aug 14, 2023 • Parijat Garg

Technology and magic

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Aug 11, 2023 • Parijat Garg

How to make Silicon Valley

What does it take for an innovation ecosystem to develop?

Aug 7, 2023 • Parijat Garg

The company that could've been Intel

Shockley Semiconductors - the company that could have become Intel, but didn't.

Aug 4, 2023 • Parijat Garg

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