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Listen to Henry tell his story from learning about effective altruism to making the decision to giving away 50% of his income - he also shares a fascinating story about getting infected with malaria for medical research.

Giving What We Can • Henry Howard gave 50% of his income to charity in 2021

Morgan made his specialty the refinancing, reorganization, and rationalization of America’s badly overextended and overcapitalized railroads; his “clients” included some of the largest, such as the Erie, the New York Central, and the Pennsylvania.

Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)

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

Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

He was college president until 1973; he ran for the Senate in 1976, aged seventy, becoming a Republican for the first time.

Henry Oliver • Second Act

Garrett Sutton’s book, “How to Use Limited Liability Companies and Limited Partnerships: Getting the Most Out of Your Legal Structure.”

John Michailidis • Strategic Planning and Investing for Individuals

Hill’s rise to the top of a burgeoning local coal business is interesting not only because it formed a cornerstone of his career and generated venture capital for later investments but also because it revealed for the first time his instincts toward what friends would call vertical and rational integration of an industry and what foes would call ru