Day 107 · Tue, Feb 2, 2027 · Five editions

Tue, Feb 2, 2027

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

孔子及其弟子:Analects 7.7

孔子及其弟子《論語》· 述而第七·七之七 · Health · Action · Philosophy

子曰:「自行束脩以上,吾未嘗無誨焉。」

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述而第七·七之七

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Today's question

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

07:00 Morning · Health · Chinese classics

孔子及其弟子:Analects 7.4

孔子及其弟子《論語》· 述而第七·七之四 · Health

子之燕居,申申如也,夭夭如也。

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述而第七·七之四

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Today's question

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

12:00 Noon · Investing · Western classics

Adam Smith:The Wealth of Nations, Book V, Chapter II, Paragraph 2027

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

It is otherwise with taxes upon what I call luxuries, even upon those of the poor. The rise in the price of the taxed commodities, will not necessarily occasion any rise in the wages of labour. A tax upon tobacco, for example, though a luxury of the poor, as well as of the rich, will not raise wages. Though it is taxed in England at three times, and in France at fifteen times its original price, those high duties seem to have no effect upon the wages of labour. The same thing maybe said of the taxes upon tea and sugar, which, in England and Holland, have become luxuries of the lowest ranks of people; and of those upon chocolate, which, in Spain, is said to have become so.

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300
Book V, Chapter II, paragraph 2027

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Today's question

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

17:00 Evening · Career · Chinese classics

司馬光:Zizhi Tongjian, Volume 199, Entry 6

司馬光《資治通鑑》· 卷199·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝下之下永徽二年(辛亥,公元六五一年) · Leadership · Action · Character · Growth

秋,七月,西突厥沙缽羅可汗寇庭州,攻陷金嶺城及蒲類縣,殺略數千人。詔左武候大將軍梁建方、右驍衛大將軍契苾何力為弓月道行軍總管,右驍衛將軍高德逸、右武候將軍薛孤吳仁為副,發秦、成、岐、雍府兵三萬人及回紇五萬騎以討之。

Source: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%B3%87%E6%B2%BB%E9%80%9A%E9%91%91/%E5%8D%B7199
卷199·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝下之下永徽二年(辛亥,公元六五一年)·第6则

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Today's question

What does this passage say about how you work today?

21:00 Figures · Career · Entrepreneur memoirs

Huang Zheng:Benfen and Customer Value

Huang Zheng《Pinduoduo 2018 Letter to Shareholders》· “Pinduoduo's values” · Character · Leadership · Action

对于拼多多管理层来说,本分意味着专注于为消费者创造价值。

Source: http://it.people.com.cn/n1/2018/0630/c1009-30097415-2.html
2018 letter to shareholders, section “拼多多的价值观”

Reading

Benfen means focusing management on creating value for consumers.

Context

Colin Huang (1980–) founded Pinduoduo in 2015 after studying at Zhejiang University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison and working at Google. In the company's 2018 IPO letter he defined its core value of benfen as focusing on creating value for consumers. The word carries Confucian overtones of staying true to one's proper role and not taking advantage of others.

Today's question

If you translated benfen into daily behavior at your company, which decision would it change?