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Daily Prep: Friday, February 13, 2026

Location: Home (Hemet) → Running Springs (CAP Conference tonight)

Carried Forward from Thursday

From Josh 1:1 (new)

  • [ ] Share personal logic model in Slack for Josh’s feedback Due: This week
  • [ ] Develop strategic proposal: Flash Lab / Build-a-Bot alignment with three C’s Due: Before next 1:1
  • [ ] Map seed grantee offerings: inter-cohort vs time-specific Due: Before next 1:1
  • [ ] Market research on comparable orgs (Josh’s lists) Due: End of Feb
  • [ ] Siegel success story — who might fund replication? Due: End of Feb
  • [ ] Fold logic model into Q1.5 goals Due: Before next 1:1

Still Open from Thursday

  • [ ] Send OpenAI API key to Sarah and Howard Due: ASAP (was due before VFT meeting Thu)
  • Review 3D model from HarmonAI
  • [ ] Reply to Gregory Wilson re: Tinkery Toolkit (deeper feedback) Due: This week
  • [ ] Mock up login flow for Wen’s dashboard Due: This week
  • [ ] Send Wen functional test plan and end-to-end test plan template Due: This week
  • [ ] Review Wen’s database schema + survey design emails (Feb 9) Due: This week
  • [ ] Send curated question list to Sam for Legal 101 review Due: End of week
  • Reply to Cat Nostrand re: NCCE recording/updates
  • [ ] CRM re-engagement campaign: 5 emails to send Due: Feb 7+
  • [ ] Follow up with Vanessa Monterosa re: Flash Lab partnership Due: Feb
  • [ ] Look up “AI 2027 for Education” by Amanda Bickerstaff Due: This week
  • [ ] Look up “MIT Brainrot study” on AI and creativity Due: This week
  • [ ] Submit Axess timecard Due: End of pay period
  • [ ] Check in on Shelly (LDT) Due: This week

Today’s Calendar

ALL DAY — CAP Cadet Program Conference

Location: Pali Retreat, 30778 CA-18 Hwy, Running Springs, CA 92382 With: Jonathan Schedule:

  • 6:00 PM Friday: Check-in, command briefing, cabin assignment, social at Bears Den
  • Sat-Sun: General assemblies, 50+ seminars (6 blocks), meals included, Career Expo, Cadet Fair, Awards Banquet (Sun evening)
  • Mon: Breakfast, check-out by 11 AM Notes: Cabin lodging included. Chef-prepared meals. Check-in window is 6 PM - midnight, so no rush. Christyl driving separately to Lake Gregory this afternoon first. Registration: https://www.eventsquid.com/event.cfm?event_id=30343

8:00 AM — Breakfast with Dave

Location: Jolene’s Diner Context: Rescheduled from the Stanford trip week. Casual catch-up.

2:00 PM — Weekly Personal Review

Notes: Recurring Friday slot. May need to cut short or skip depending on packing/travel timing for CAP conference. Could do a quick version before heading out.

Email Action Items

FYI

  • Egencia — Trip receipts from San Jose trip now available. Download when convenient.
  • ASU+GSV Summit — New “Multiple Choice” stage at April 12-15 summit. Educational pluralism focus. Possible connection to AI+Education work.
  • Airtable Community — Tips & Tricks webinar Feb 23 at 10:30am PT. Optional but could help with Airtable hygiene.

Newsletters (skip)

  • TLDR AI, AINews, Turing Post, Latent.Space, Stanford Report, Snowflake, AlphaSignal, Cameron Wolfe

No urgent emails today.

Reminders

Upcoming

  • Schedule chiro appointment — due Feb 16 (Monday)
  • Jonathan’s DMV driver test — March 3 at 8am
  • Dentist appointment — April 15 at 8am

From Inbox Processing

Unclear item from yesterday (Feb 12, 12:03 PM):

92.5% — the speaker fit, but not snug. At 100 — a little big.

This looks like notes about speaker/headphone sizing? Not clearly actionable — keeping for reference. Reuben, what is this about?

Today’s Priorities

  1. Breakfast with Dave (8am) — Jolene’s Diner, casual catch-up
  2. Share logic model to Josh on Slack — quick task, high value. Do before the weekend.
  3. Weekly Personal Review (2pm) — quick version: check action items, preview next week (GSE All-Staff + Legal 101 on Feb 18)
  4. Christyl → Lake Gregory, then CAP check-in — no rush, check-in window is 6 PM - midnight. More flex time this afternoon.
  5. If time this afternoon: Send OpenAI API key to Sarah/Howard, pull Egencia receipts, quick wins from action items

Reality check: You’re at CAP conference through Monday. Most work items wait until Tuesday. The extra afternoon time from the later departure is a good window for quick wins.

Session Notes

Morning Update

  • Breakfast with Dave at Jolene’s — nice catch-up. Follow-ups: pay HVFC dues, ask Chris at Ascendant Aviation tax questions (added to Reminders).
  • Shared logic model with Josh — posted to https://reubenthiessen.com/personal-logic-model/index.html (action item marked done)
  • Inbox note clarified: The 92.5%/100% speaker sizing is for the HarmonAI 3D model of “Cheddar” (the cat that holds the speaker). Updated HarmonAI action item with sizing notes.
  • Trip reimbursement: Need to pull Egencia receipts + Lyft/food/parking from Stanford trip and send to Moraima. Added to action items.
  • Sent OpenAI API key to Sarah and Howard — done. Howard opted to keep his own key so he can see API usage during testing.
  • CAP logistics: Christyl driving separately to Lake Gregory first. Check-in window 6pm-midnight. Need to pack, load Jonathan’s stuff, stage chairs in garage (move to Christyl’s car if we end up going to Lake Gregory).

ABCs bots work this week (captured from Slack)

Major updates to bot101.app/abcs (Feb 11-12):

  • Fixed editing bug (click blocks to edit text)
  • Added multi-perspective feature — up to 5 bots in a single conversation
  • Refined 5 bot prompts based on Cathy Chase’s feedback: Analogy Annie, Contrast Carl, Deliberate Dana, Generator Grace, Knowledge Keeper
  • Cathy using the bots Friday (today) to train 12-15 oncology faculty on learning science principles

Generated: Feb 13, 2026 morning

Source: daily/2026-02-13.md