Day 68 · Fri, Dec 25, 2026 · Five editions

Fri, Dec 25, 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

王阳明:Chuanxilu, 卷上 69

王阳明《傳習錄》· 卷上·第69条 · Cognition · Health · Decision · Philosophy

問:「世道日降,太古時氣象如何復見得?」 先生曰:「一日便是一元。人平旦時起坐,未與物接,此心清明景象,便如在伏羲時遊一般。」

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卷上·第69条

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

07:00 Morning · Health · Chinese classics

孔子及其弟子:Analects 14.19

孔子及其弟子《論語》· 憲問第十四·十四之十九 · Health · Cognition · Leadership

公叔文子之臣大夫僎,與文子同升諸公。子聞之曰:「可以爲文矣!」

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憲問第十四·十四之十九

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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 IV, Chapter IX, Paragraph 1560

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

It can never be the interest of the proprietors and cultivators, to restrain or to discourage, in any respect, the industry of merchants, artificers, and manufacturers. The greater the liberty which this unproductive class enjoys, the greater will be the competition in all the different trades which compose it, and the cheaper will the other two classes be supplied, both with foreign goods and with the manufactured produce of their own country.

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Book IV, Chapter IX, paragraph 1560

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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 200, Entry 12

司馬光《資治通鑑》· 卷200·高宗天皇大聖大弘孝皇帝上之下龍朔二年(壬戌,公元六六二年) · Philosophy · Leadership

六月,乙丑,初令僧、尼、道士、女官致敬父母。

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卷200·高宗天皇大聖大弘孝皇帝上之下龍朔二年(壬戌,公元六六二年)·第12则

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What does this passage say about how you work today?

21:00 Figures · Career · Entrepreneur memoirs

John D. Rockefeller:Random Reminiscences of Men and Events, Excerpt 55

John D. Rockefeller《Random Reminiscences of Men and Events》· Chapter III · Leadership

Every week in the year for many, many years, this concern has brought into this country more than a million dollars gold, all from the products produced by American labour. I am proud of the record, and believe most Americans will be when they understand some things better. These achievements, the development of this great foreign trade, the owning of ships to carry the oil in bulk by the most economical methods, the sending out of men to fight for the world's markets, have cost huge sums of money, and the vast capital employed could not be raised nor controlled except by such an organization as the Standard is to-day.

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Chapter III, excerpt 55

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What does this passage say about how you work today?