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Set up a daily WSPC inbox email summary

Create a custom skill and cron job to summarize unread emails and get a daily digest automatically.

Paste these messages into your own Claude to try it.

You

list my wspc inbox

Hermes
Loaded tools, used WSPC inbox integration

WSPC inbox latest 3 messages:

1. Luceing Their Mind (This Week in Stratechery)
From: Ben Thompson <[email protected]>
Received: 2026-05-30 01:05 Asia/Taipei
Status: Read
ID: eml_01KSTB58M8DSAN717D8R9X7DXJ

2. Charts of the Week: Retail to the Moon
From: a16z <[email protected]>
Received: 2026-05-23 01:20 Asia/Taipei
Status: Read
ID: eml_01KST19M58172VM1BHZ7175HAD

3. Charts of the Week: Reflections from Sohn
From: a16z <[email protected]>
Received: 2026-05-22 22:12 Asia/Taipei
Status: Read
ID: eml_01KS80GEDF20JRRZ2M5KH4K3T6

There is a next_cursor, so older messages may be available if you want the next page.

You

summarize 1

Hermes
Loaded tools, analyzed email content

Summary — “Luceing Their Mind (This Week in Stratechery)”

This Stratechery weekly digest highlights the best content from the week of May 25, 2026. The main themes are Ferrari’s first EV, AI-era advertising, and China’s hukou reform.

  • Ferrari Luce and the EV identity problem Ben Thompson discusses the negative reaction to the Jony Ive-designed Ferrari Luce, Ferrari’s first electric vehicle. His take is that the car may look good as an EV, but the problem is that it carries the Ferrari brand. EVs are fundamentally optimized around efficiency, while Ferrari’s identity is built around performance, emotion, and mechanical experience. Thompson frames this as part of a broader modern-tech alienation problem — products become more efficient, but less emotionally resonant.

  • Monetizing AI answers through ads The newsletter points to an interview with Eric Seufert about how LLMs are changing digital advertising. The discussion covers Google and OpenAI’s attempts to monetize AI answers, and why ads remain a crucial consumer-tech business model. Thompson is relatively optimistic: if ads help people discover things they did not know they wanted, AI could make advertising more relevant rather than less useful.

  • China’s hukou reform and social mobility Sharp China covers China’s move to ease hukou restrictions, allowing migrant workers better access to social services in the cities where they work. The reform could improve millions of lives and support Xi’s goal of a more unified national market, but implementation will raise questions around local finances, resource allocation, and whether it meaningfully improves social mobility.

Other linked Stratechery bundle items include:

  • Nvidia’s new reporting structure and its implications for the AI stack.
  • SpaceX IPO speculation and the possibility of data centers in space.
  • An interview with Eric Seufert on AI, models, ads, and optimism about humanity.
  • Sharp Text on Spencer Pratt and California Democratic politics.
  • Podcast episodes from Dithering, Asianometry, Sharp China, Greatest of All Talk, and Sharp Tech.
  • A Stratechery video titled “The Inference Shift.”

Overall, the issue is about how legacy institutions and business models adapt to technological shifts: Ferrari facing electrification, ad platforms facing AI answers, and China facing structural limits on labor mobility.

You

I want to create a new skill that summary each of my unread WSPC inbox emails and send it to me in this chat every day at 9:15am Taipei time. Set them to read after all summarized.

Hermes
Loaded tools, authorized and created custom skill & cron job

Done.

  • Created new skill: wspc-inbox-digest

  • Path: /home/linuxuser/.hermes/profiles/pocketshark/skills/productivity/wspc-inbox-digest/SKILL.md

  • Behavior: summarize unread WSPC emails in English, then mark summarized emails as read.

  • Created daily cron job:

    • Name: WSPC unread inbox daily digest
    • Job ID: 3135b71877b1
    • Schedule: 15 9 * * *
    • Next run: 2026-05-31 09:15 Asia/Taipei
    • Delivery: this Telegram chat
    • Loaded skills: wspc-email, wspc-inbox-digest

If there are no unread WSPC emails, the job will stay silent.

You

try it now

Hermes
Loaded tools, triggered and tested cron job

Triggered the cron job now.

  • Job ID: 3135b71877b1
  • It’s queued to run on the scheduler tick at: 2026-05-30 14:52:44 Asia/Taipei

If there are unread WSPC emails, it should deliver the digest here and mark them read. If there are none, it will stay silent.


Cronjob Response: WSPC unread inbox daily digest (job_id: 3135b71877b1)

📬 WSPC Inbox Digest — 2026-05-30 09:15 Asia/Taipei

Summarized: 1 unread email(s) Marked read: 1

  1. You’re on the list
    • From: Googlebook <[email protected]>
    • Received: 2026-05-16 12:14 Asia/Taipei
    • Summary:
      • Googlebook confirms you have signed up for Googlebook updates.
      • The email says you have a “front-row seat” and will be kept posted when Googlebook launches this fall.
      • It notes that Google and Gemini are trademarks of Google LLC.
      • No attachment was included.
      • Action needed: None
      • Attachments: 0
      • ID: 019e2efd-fe73-76cc-9258-4188d50674e7

Read-mark result:

  • marked: 1
  • not_found: []

To stop or manage this job, send me a new message (e.g. “stop reminder WSPC unread inbox daily digest”).