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Daily Prep: Monday, January 26, 2026

Jury Duty Week - Day 1 (on standby - not reporting today!)

Nightly check-in: Text badge number to 951-289-7434 at 6pm

  • Badge: 0389088642
  • Last check: Thursday night (Jan 29)
  • You texted last night → not required to report today

Carried Forward from Friday

Incomplete Action Items

  • MyBook mockup - “unified wrapper” concept for Wen’s workflow (meeting was cancelled, reschedule pending) → Meeting rescheduled to Jan 28
  • Read Wen’s project proposal - Due before Jan 28 meeting
  • Update Airtable, prep 2-3 stories for end-of-month (Due: Jan 29)
  • Reply to Cat Nostrand re: NCCE recording/updates
  • [ ] AI Comic Studio - Track time spent on search results pages (Due: Jan 31) ✅ Done

Open Questions/Blockers

  • MyBook meeting needs to be rescheduled with Wen → Rescheduled to Jan 28 at 11am

Today’s Calendar

All Day - Jury Duty

Location: Riverside County (call-in first) Badge: 0389088642 Note: Check if you need to report or just call in

9:30am - Airtable Xfer

Recurring weekly task Action: Transfer notes/updates to Airtable

3:00pm - Reminder: Leading End-of-Month Meeting Tomorrow

Meeting: AS:DE Monthly Wrap-up (you’re facilitating) Prep doc: prep/end-of-month-prep-jan-2026.md (already solid!)

Format:

  1. “What did we do?” - Activity review
  2. “What trends are popping up?” - Pattern analysis
  3. “What stories are emerging?” - Candidates for Airtable
  4. “What should we change?” - Process discussion

Your prep:

  • Review Airtable entries for January completeness
  • Pick 2-3 stories to enter (ISTE Partnership, Crystal Springs, New Schools Venture Fund are strong)
  • Review discussion points in prep doc

4:00pm - Leave for River Church Board Meeting

Location: Carlsbad (not the usual pastor’s house) Note: Driving down - allow extra time

Email Summary

Today’s inbox: Mostly newsletters (TLDR AI, Stanford Venture Studio, Flint, Hechinger Report, Turing Post)

Action items from recent emails:

  • Dr. Leslie Hart (Fri 3:12pm): “Research design” - needs review
  • Josh Weiss (Fri 2:20pm): “Connecting us!” - check what this is about

From Inbox Processing

Processed 3 items from INBOX.md:

  1. Josh 1:1 agenda - Added to meetings/josh-1on1s.md under Jan 29:
    • Law School Meeting
    • Oman prep - advocate scaffolding, tick tock schedule
  2. oxen.ai - Added to action-items.md as “Someday” (synthetic datasets, fine-tuning)
  3. Isometric NYC workflow - Added to action-items.md as “Someday” (cool workflow reference)

This Week’s Key Dates

Day Event Priority
Mon 1/26 Jury Duty starts ✅ Not required -
Tue 1/27 Sam McClure planning call @ 2pm (Legal 101 workshop) High
Wed 1/28 Anna-Lena call @ 8am PT (Flash Lab debrief) High
Wed 1/28 Wen/MyBook @ 11am High
Wed 1/28 Pick up suit jacket after 3pm Medium
Thu 1/29 Vanessa/New Schools @ 9:30am High
Thu 1/29 Josh 1:1 @ 10am - GPS goals finalization High
Thu 1/29 Idea to Code presentation @ 3:30pm High

Today’s Priorities

  1. Check jury duty status - Call in or report as required ✅ Not required to report
  2. Prep for tomorrow’s End-of-Month meeting - Review prep doc, pick 2-3 stories for Airtable
  3. Airtable update - Add stories, update January entries (you have MCP access now!)
  4. 4pm - Leave for Carlsbad - River Church board meeting (allow drive time) ✅

Completed Today

  • ✅ Josh’s presentation - Commented and added 2 slides
  • ✅ AI Comic Studio - Style consistency update pushed to production, messaged Cathy
  • ✅ Legal 101 Workshop - Created planning doc, sent Josh the Google Doc with objectives/agenda
  • ✅ Suit jacket - Dropped at tailor (pickup Wed 1/28 after 3pm)
  • ✅ Sam McClure meeting prep - Agenda ready for tomorrow 2pm call
  • ✅ Weekly digest - Created for Jan 26 - Feb 9

Notes

  • Oman trip is Feb 1-6 (6 days away!)
  • GPS goals MUST be finalized at Thursday’s 1:1 with Josh
  • You got Airtable MCP working - good for updating records directly now

Generated: 2026-01-26 morning

Source: daily/2026-01-26.md