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The history of a commodity boom
Nitrates, the Chilean economy, and technology disruption
Feb 4
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Parijat Garg
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Stage of Industry as a Barrier to Entry
Any industry often starts at a very basic level. Over time, as lots of people get into the industry, they learn new skills and find out how to do things…
Feb 1
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Parijat Garg
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September 2023
Humans in the age of AI
There’s no use fighting AI now. It's going to be everywhere. Way too many of the things we do will be done by AI systems. But does that mean we will not…
Sep 22, 2023
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Parijat Garg
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August 2023
To the moon...
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
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Parijat Garg
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The metal box that changed the world
Innovation is not always a 3nm microchip, a large language model, or an electric vehicle. Sometimes, it is just a metal box 8 feet by 8 feet by 20 feet…
Aug 21, 2023
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Parijat Garg
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All the easy inventions are done
All the easy inventions are done. It was easier back then because the most obvious ideas were still there to be discovered. Now it is way harder. If you…
Aug 18, 2023
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Parijat Garg
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The great Indian pit-stop
IIT Bombay
Aug 14, 2023
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Parijat Garg
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Technology and magic
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Any sufficiently advanced aircraft is indistinguishable from an alien ship! Area…
Aug 11, 2023
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Parijat Garg
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How to make Silicon Valley
What does it take for an innovation ecosystem to develop? An ecosystem like Silicon Valley? This is an eternally fascinating question and a particularly…
Aug 7, 2023
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The company that could've been Intel
Shockley Semiconductors - the company that could have become Intel, but didn't. Intel was founded in 1968. But thirteen years before that, Intel's would…
Aug 4, 2023
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Parijat Garg
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July 2023
On innovation and pricing
Do users want great products or do they want a low price? If you believe the Apple narrative, you'd think that once you have a great product, people…
Jul 31, 2023
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On reinvention
You either die a heretic, or live long enough to become part of the orthodoxy. I'm reading a history of Xerox PARC - an organization so incredible that…
Jul 28, 2023
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On reinvention
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