Day 169 · Mon, Apr 5, 2027 · Five editions

Mon, Apr 5, 2027

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

00:00 Night · Investing · Chinese classics

桓寬:Discourses on Salt and Iron, Volume 5, 利議第二十七, Entry 3

桓寬《鹽鐵論》· 卷5·利議第二十七 · Investing · Decision · Cognition · Philosophy

文學曰:「諸生對冊,殊路同歸,指在崇禮義,退財利,復往古之道,匡當世之失,莫不云太平;雖未盡可亶用,宜若有可行者焉。執事闇於明禮,而喻於利末,沮事隋議,計慮籌策,以故至今未決。非儒無成事,公卿欲成利也。」

Source: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%B9%BD%E9%90%B5%E8%AB%96/%E5%8D%B705
卷5·利議第二十七·第3则

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

07:00 Morning · Health · Chinese classics

洪应明:Caigentan, Entry 113

洪应明《菜根譚》· 第113则 · Health · Human nature · Philosophy

曲意而使人喜,不若直躬而使人忌; 無善而致人譽,不若無惡而致人毀。

Source: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%8F%9C%E6%A0%B9%E8%AD%9A
第113则

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

12:00 Noon · Investing · Chinese classics

桓寬:Discourses on Salt and Iron, Volume 7, 擊之第四十二, Entry 2

桓寬《鹽鐵論》· 卷7·擊之第四十二 · Investing · Action · Health · Decision

大夫曰:「前議公事,賢良、文學稱引往古,頗乖世務。論者不必相反,期於可行。往者,縣官未事胡、越之時,邊城四面受敵,北邊尤被其苦。先帝絕三方之難,撫從方國,以為蕃蔽,窮極郡國,以討匈奴。匈奴壤界獸圈,孤弱無與,此困亡之時也。遼遠不遂,使得復喘息,休養士馬,負紿西域。西域迫近胡寇,沮心內解,必為巨患。是以主上欲掃除,煩倉廩之費也。終日逐禽,罷而釋之,則非計也。蓋舜紹緒,禹成功。今欲以軍興擊之,何如?」

Source: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%B9%BD%E9%90%B5%E8%AB%96/%E5%8D%B707
卷7·擊之第四十二·第2则

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17:00 Evening · Career · Chinese classics

孙武:The Art of War, 答話 10

孙武《孫子兵法》· 答話 · Leadership · Human nature · Health · Cognition

又曰:「軍入敵境,敵人固壘不戰,士卒思歸,欲退且難,謂之輕地。當選驍騎伏要路,我退敵追,來則擊之也。」

Source: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%AD%AB%E5%AD%90%E5%85%B5%E6%B3%95
答話·第10则

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21:00 Figures · Career · Entrepreneur memoirs

Benjamin Franklin:The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Excerpt 54

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

An ironmonger in London however, assuming a good deal of my pamphlet, and working it up into his own, and making some small changes in the machine, which rather hurt its operation, got a patent for it there, and made, as I was told, a little fortune by it. And this is not the only instance of patents taken out for my inventions by others, tho' not always with the same success, which I never contested, as having no desire of profiting by patents myself, and hating disputes. The use of these fireplaces in very many houses, both of this and the neighbouring colonies, has been, and is, a great saving of wood to the inhabitants.

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/148
Excerpt 54

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