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Thursday, Sep 8, 2022

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💬 Quoted…​​A hardworking woman that has had her priorities in line.

  • A 29-year-old South Florida woman – who describes herself as “Mother Theresa in her community” – was charged by the SEC with running her business as a $200 million Ponzi scheme. If convicted, she faces up to 20 years in prison.

📙 Stat of the Day: Merriam-Webster added 370 new words to the dictionary yesterday, including sus, janky, pumpkin spice, shrinkflation, virtue signaling, and dumbphone.

🤯 Did You Know?... Gunpowder was accidentally discovered around the year 850 by Chinese alchemists trying to develop a potion for immortality.

📖 Worth a Read: The 1,000 Chinese SpaceX engineers who never existed → (MIT Technology Review)

📊 Poll results: Yesterday, we covered how now is the best time for Americans to job hop compared to any point in at least two decades, and asked whether y’all had switched jobs at all over the past 12 months.

  • 27% said yes, 55% said no, and 18% don’t currently hold a job.

+Bonus: Those who responded ‘yes’ reported an average salary increase of 32%.🤑

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