Day 224 · Sun, May 30, 2027 · Five editions

Sun, May 30, 2027

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

00:00 Night · 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composed, money, provisions, materials, and finished work, the three last, it has already been observed, are regularly withdrawn from it, and placed either in the fixed capital of the society, or in their stock reserved for immediate consumption.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?

07:00 Morning · Health · Chinese classics

老子:Dao De Jing, Chapter 50

老子《道德經》· 五十章 · Health · Action · Philosophy · Cognition

出生入死。 生之徒,十有三;死之徒,十有三;人之生,動之死地,亦十有三。夫何故?以其生生之厚。蓋聞善攝生者,陸行不遇兕虎,入軍不被甲兵;兕無所投其角,虎無所措其爪,兵無所容其刃。夫何故?以其無死地。

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王弼本·五十章

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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 I, Chapter VIII, Paragraph 209

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

Secondly, the wages of labour do not, in Great Britain, fluctuate with the price of provisions. These vary everywhere from year to year, frequently from month to month. But in many places, the money price of labour remains uniformly the same, sometimes for half a century together. If, in these places, therefore, the labouring poor can maintain their families in dear years, they must be at their ease in times of moderate plenty, and in affluence in those of extraordinary cheapness. The high price of provisions during these ten years past, has not, in many parts of the kingdom, been accompanied with any sensible rise in the money price of labour. It has, indeed, in some; owing, probably, more to the increase of the demand for labour, than to that of the price of provisions.

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Book I, Chapter VIII, paragraph 209

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

17:00 Evening · Career · Chinese classics

孔子及其弟子:Analects 19.3

孔子及其弟子《論語》· 子張第十九·十九之三 · Cognition · Leadership · Character · Learning

子夏之門人,問「交」於子張。子張曰:「子夏云何?」對曰:「子夏曰:『可者與之,其不可者拒之。』」子張曰:「異乎吾所聞;『君子尊賢而容眾,嘉善而矜不能。』我之大賢與,於人何所不容?我之不賢與,人將拒我,如之何其拒人也?」

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子張第十九·十九之三

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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 62

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

In the hearing of the Industrial Commission in 1899, I then said that if I were to suggest any legislation regarding industrial combinations it would be: First, Federal legislation under which corporations may be created and regulated, if that be possible. Second, in lieu thereof, state legislation as nearly uniform as possible, encouraging combinations of persons and capital for the purpose of carrying on industries, but permitting state supervision, not of a character to hamper industries, but sufficient to prevent frauds upon the public. I still feel as I did in 1899.

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Chapter III, excerpt 62

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What does this passage say about how you work today?