Sublime

Three years into his career at Jane Street, he remained fully committed to generating as many dollars as possible and channeling them into the causes that saved lives most efficiently. He’d given away most of the money he’d made on the trading floor to three charities identified by the Oxford philosophers as being especially efficient at saving liv

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It took only a couple of weeks of working for Sam before Caroline Ellison called her mother and sobbed into the phone that she’d just made the biggest mistake of her life. She’d first met Sam at Jane Street, in the summer before her senior year at Stanford, after he’d been assigned to teach her class of interns how to trade. “I was kind of, like, t

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American readers of Scottish moral philosophy were searching for more than intellectual stimulation or interpretive conclusions about morality. They were searching for moral instruction that was independent of theology, but supportive of religion; scientifically derived, and straightforwardly practicable.139 This earnest desire for moral improvemen

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