Day 49 · Sun, Dec 6, 2026 · Five editions

Sun, Dec 6, 2026

Five emails a day: 00:00 Night / 07:00 Morning / 12:00 Noon / 17:00 Evening / 21:00 Figures

00:00 Night · Health · Chinese classics

老子:Dao De Jing, Chapter 54

老子《道德經》· 五十四章 · Growth · Health · Cognition · Character

善建者不拔, 善抱者不脫, 子孫以祭祀不輟。 修之於身,其德乃真;修之於家,其德乃餘; 修之於鄉,其德乃長;修之於國,其德乃豐;修之於天下,其德乃普。故以身觀身,以家觀家,以鄉觀鄉,以國觀國, 以天下觀天下。 吾何以知天下然哉?以此。

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王弼本·五十四章

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What does this passage say about your body or mood today?

07:00 Morning · Health · Chinese classics

王永彬:Weilu Yehua, Passage 187

王永彬《圍爐夜話》· 第187段 · Health · Cognition · Growth · Action

為學無間斷,如流水行雲,日進而不已也 友以成德也,人而無友,則孤陋寡聞,德不能成矣

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第187段(按原排版相邻两行合并)

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What does this passage say about your body or mood today?

12:00 Noon · Investing · Western classics

Adam Smith:The Wealth of Nations, Book II, Chapter II, Paragraph 717

Adam Smith《The Wealth of Nations》· Book II, Chapter II · Investing

But though the whole expense of maintaining the fixed capital is thus necessarily excluded from the neat revenue of the society, it is not the same case with that of maintaining the circulating capital. Of the four parts of which this latter capital is composed, money, provisions, materials, and finished work, the three last, it has already been observed, are regularly withdrawn from it, and placed either in the fixed capital of the society, or in their stock reserved for immediate consumption. Whatever portion of those consumable goods is not employed in maintaining the former, goes all to the latter, and makes a part of the neat revenue of the society. The maintenance of those three parts of the circulating capital, therefore, withdraws no portion of the annual produce from the neat revenue of the society, besides what is necessary for maintaining the fixed capital.

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Book II, Chapter II, paragraph 717

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Does this passage change one judgment about money or risk today?

17:00 Evening · Career · Chinese classics

司馬光:Zizhi Tongjian, Volume 192, Entry 8

司馬光《資治通鑑》· 卷192·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝上之上貞觀元年(丁亥,公元六二七年) · Leadership · Health · Philosophy

辛丑,天節將軍燕郡王李藝據涇州反。

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卷192·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝上之上貞觀元年(丁亥,公元六二七年)·第8则

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What does this passage say about how you work today?

21:00 Figures · Career · Entrepreneur memoirs

Benjamin Franklin:The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Excerpt 14

Benjamin Franklin《The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin》· The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · Leadership

Ralph was inclin'd to pursue the study of poetry, not doubting but he might become eminent in it, and make his fortune by it, alleging that the best poets must, when they first began to write, make as many faults as he did. Osborne dissuaded him, assur'd him he had no genius for poetry, and advis'd him to think of nothing beyond the business he was bred to; that, in the mercantile way, tho' he had no stock, he might, by his diligence and punctuality, recommend himself to employment as a factor, and in time acquire wherewith to trade on his own account. I approv'd the amusing one's self with poetry now and then, so far as to improve one's language, but no farther.

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Excerpt 14

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What does this passage say about how you work today?