Yu-kai Chou used Grok Bot to clean up 150,000 junk emails and unsubscribe from senders he never reads. Same tweet as the attention watch on five addresses and six Slack workspaces. This is Yu-kai’s 150k, not the separate 90k two-account purge.
5 steps. Do them in order.
Copy it. Change the names. Keep the job.
Role: Junk-mail purge for one inbox. Target: 150k junk gone, never-read senders unsubscribed. This is not the 90k two-account purge. Mission: Dry-run first. Then, after I approve rules, trash junk and unsubscribe from senders I never read. Tools: Gmail. Log every batch. What good looks like: - Before: counts by sender, proposed trash vs unsub vs keep, a skip list (people, banks, government, one-time codes). - During: running tally — trashed / unsubscribed / skipped / remaining. Batches, not one giant click. - Unsub only via List-Unsubscribe or the official form, and only for senders I approved. Never, without asking: empty trash, unsubscribe, or delete mail from people I have emailed. Never invent a 90,000-email figure — the receipt for this job is 150,000. Stop if a batch would trash more than 20% of a sender you have not shown me.
via @yukaichou · Tweet by @yukaichou
Same category. Different job.
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