Day 112 · Sun, Feb 7, 2027 · Five editions

Sun, Feb 7, 2027

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

00:00 Night · Career · Chinese classics

司馬光:Zizhi Tongjian, Volume 194, Entry 3

司馬光《資治通鑑》· 卷194·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝上之下貞觀九年(乙未,公元六三五年) · Leadership · Wealth · Investing · Action

乙酉,鹽澤道行軍總管高甑生擊叛羌,破之。

Source: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%B3%87%E6%B2%BB%E9%80%9A%E9%91%91/%E5%8D%B7194
卷194·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝上之下貞觀九年(乙未,公元六三五年)·第3则

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Today's question

What does this passage say about how you work today?

07:00 Morning · 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。

Source: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%81%93%E5%BE%B7%E7%B6%93_%28%E7%8E%8B%E5%BC%BC%E6%9C%AC%29
王弼本·五十四章

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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 741

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

If they employ it in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption, they may either, first, purchase such goods as are likely to be consumed by idle people, who produce nothing, such as foreign wines, foreign silks, etc.; or, secondly, they may purchase an additional stock of materials, tools, and provisions, in order to maintain and employ an additional number of industrious people, who reproduce, with a profit, the value of their annual consumption.

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300
Book II, Chapter II, paragraph 741

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

17:00 Evening · Career · Chinese classics

王永彬:Weilu Yehua, Passage 81

王永彬《圍爐夜話》· 第81段 · Health · Cognition · Philosophy · Leadership

家之貧窮者,謀奔走以給衣食,衣食未必能充 何若自謀本業,知民生在勤,定當有濟

Source: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%9C%8D%E7%88%90%E5%A4%9C%E8%A9%B1
第81段(按原排版相邻两行合并)

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What does this passage say about how you work today?

21:00 Figures · Investing · Modern investor letters

Warren Buffett:Berkshire 2018 Letter, Excerpt 3

Warren Buffett《Berkshire Hathaway 2018 Letter to Shareholders》· 2018 Chairman's Letter · Investing

Wide swings in our quarterly GAAP earnings will inevitably continue. That’s because our huge equity portfolio – valued at nearly $173 billion at the end of 2018 – will often experience one-day price fluctuations of $2 billion or more, all of which the new rule says must be dropped immediately to our bottom line. Indeed, in the fourth quarter, a period of high volatility in stock prices, we experienced several days with a “profit” or “loss” of more than $4 billion.

Source: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2018ltr.pdf
2018 Chairman's Letter, excerpt 3

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Today's question

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