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These 13 Words From the Tech and Business Worlds Were Just Officially Added to the Dictionary - Inc.com

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The claim that Inuits have more than 50 words for snow might not be exactly true, but despite energetic debunking by experts, many of us still remember this linguistic tidbit. Why? Because it neatly captures the idea that you can learn a lot about a culture from what it has names for.

That's true of Indigenous Arctic peoples, and it's also true of modern day Americans. Word nerds like me need no convincing to rejoice when Merriam-Webster announces new terms it's added to its dictionary. But for less language-obsessed entrepreneurs, the annual list is a great moment to reflect on the concepts that have gained so much ubiquity or cachet that they're now officially sanctioned English words (it also might help you if you play a lot of Scrabble or work with a grammar stickler).

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Meet The Former Missile Engineer Who Made Billions Outsourcing Jobs — To The U.S. - Forbes

Raj Sardana appears in the aisle of the Innova Solutions corporate jet at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport just past 9 a.m. After spending the weekend at a wedding in nearby Jersey City, the 63-year-old is flying to Minneapolis to visit the Mall of America, where he has an outpost of his fast-growing Georgia-based staffing and IT outsourcing firm. He's joined by his wife of 37 years, Nita, and son Rajan, 28, both vice presidents at the company.

Tossing aside their Louis Vuitton luggage and sunglasses, the trio nestle into the plush, wood-framed seats of the $9.5 million Bombardier Global Express, purchased by Innova in 2020 as an upgrade to its previous Challenger 850, which Sardana points out was used in the first season of Netflix's billionaire-focused soap opera, Dynasty. Once in the air, the family digs into plates of omelets, fruit and pastries served to them with golden knives and forks by an assistant who says she was hired two weeks prior.

"Did you see that?" Sardana says, grinning enthusiastically as he steps onto the tarmac of the non-commercial landing-area at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport about two and a half hours later, waving to the last two letters of the tail number painted in bright blue on the rear of the plane. "R.S.," he reads aloud - he's wearing matching cufflinks with the initials, "for Raj Sardana."

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Marc Andreessen’s ‘Techno-Optimist Manifesto’ says the myth of Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and the Terminator ‘haunts our nightmares.’ Here’s what he is (probably) getting at - Fortune

“We are being lied to,” is the very first sentence in Marc Andreessen’s new “Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” where the billionaire venture capitalist lays out his latest thoughts on the benefits of technology and free markets. “We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality, threatens our health, ruins the environment, degrades our society, corrupts our children, impairs our humanity, threatens our future, and is ever on the verge of ruining everything.” But that’s just not so, he argues. Rather, we must get past our fear of “the myth of Prometheus”—and yes, Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and the Terminator all apply.

The legendary venture capitalist’s 5,000-word manifesto discusses the impact that he sees technology having on the human species and touches on everything from utopias to the meaning of life. He argues that society is afraid of the “lies” it’s been told about new and ground-shaking technologies, with artificial intelligence just the latest of these. He strongly suggests that society is too concerned with an ancient Greek cautionary tale and not enough with Friedrich Nietzsche’s theory of modernity and the “Übermensch,” or superman.

“The myth of Prometheus—in various updated forms like Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and Terminator—haunts our nightmares,” Andreessen wrote in his manifesto, published on his Substack and on the website for his venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, on Monday. But dream big instead, the billionaire says, adding he is “here to bring the good news.”

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