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IWB Blog
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IWB Blog is a personal blog at blog.irvingwb.com about ai, business and data. Since 2010, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Language Is a Tool for Communication, Not for Thinking”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
A collection of observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation, technology, leadership, and other subjects.
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- Language Is a Tool for Communication, Not for Thinking2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-07
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well it also influenced judgement: the freshly Lou Gerstner Jr. who later danced the elephant into muddy waters appointed "Internet Division" head below https://blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2005/11/the_ibm_interne.html declared in meaning that Notes is for Enterprises and the web browsers for consumers/hobby. Now to settle this once and for all the IBM web browser was canceled.
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on “Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch”Submitted Where Is Technology Taking the Economy? as a story · 45 points
HN discussionAt the time of the SCO lawsuit, IBM had already made a huge bet on Linux. [1] Basically, that's why SCO sued them. And they had their own Unix (AIX) which they could have ported to x86 if they had wanted to--but they didn't. Here's what the person who headed IBM's Linux initiative told me a couple of years back: And I still remember very well in December of ‘99, I called Sam Palmisano, the head of IBM Systems Group.…
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on “The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later”Submitted The Rise of the T-Shaped Organization (2015) as a story · 19 points
HN discussion4.4% turn over per year, 22% in 5 years https://www.exchangecapital.com/blog/why-the-sp-500-isnt-wha... and accelerating https://blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2020/01/the-pace-of-creative-...
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on “The Great Blogging Collapse: What Happened to 100 Successful Blogs?”Submitted The Co-Evolution of Humans and Our Tools (2011) as a story · 17 points
HN discussion> But anyway, it already costs half compared to last year You could not have bought Claude Opus 4.5 at any price one year ago I'm quite certain. The things that were available cost half of what they did then, and there are new things available. These are both true. I'm agreeing with you, to be clear. There are two pieces I expect to continue: inference for existing models will continue to get cheaper. Models will co…
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on “Karpathy: A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks”Submitted Extreme Scale Computing as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Impact of Open Source on the EU Economy as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Language Is a Tool for Communication, Not for Thinking as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Human-AI Decision Systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Irving Wladawsky-Berger: AI and Public Policy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does Automation Replace or Augment Expertise? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Language Is a Tool for Communication, Not for Thinking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Future of Self-Driving Cars and Robotaxis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Impact of Open Source on the Future of AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Artificial Intelligence: Realistic Expectations vs. Irrational Exuberance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Human-Machine Work Teams as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Simple, Economic Value of Artificial Intelligence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big Data and the 21st Century Information-based Society as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Irving Wladawsky-Berger: Extreme Scale Computing as a story · 1 points
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