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Daily: Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Location: Carlsbad → driving home to Hemet tonight Note: No morning prep — in Carlsbad for the weekend, worked remotely

Today’s Calendar

10:00 AM — GSE All-Staff Meeting (Zoom)

Topic: Prof. Thomas Dee — post-pandemic education shifts

12:00 PM — Legal 101 Workshop (Zoom)

Facilitator: Sam McClure (Stanford Law) Role: Organized and hosted Outcome: Workshop delivered successfully. Key topics: SU-18, OTL process, entity formation, COPPA/FERPA compliance, founder agreements. Notes captured in meetings/running-notes.md.

6:00 PM — CAP Check-in with Jonathan

Skipped — in Carlsbad, driving home tonight

Accomplishments

  • Delivered the workshop — Sam facilitated, well-received
  • Follow-up survey adjusted and sent
  • Processed workshop notes into meetings/running-notes.md
  • Added action items: OTL form, Sam’s white paper review

SU-18 / Personal Files Cleanup

  • Realized SU-18 implications for personal projects on work laptop
  • Zipped and backed up 9 personal project folders from ~/projects/ to personal drive
  • Deleted personal projects from work laptop (pray2x714, loveindia, jpi-parser, openenginedata, edm-py, python-edm, garmin-g5, g5js, pray-app)
  • Removed personal/ directory from the work system
  • Updated CLAUDE.md to remove personal directory references
  • Disabled iCloud sync / personal email considerations flagged

Three C’s Strategic Proposal (for Josh 1:1 tomorrow)

  • Developed seed grant lifecycle framework: SPARK → BUILD → SHARPEN → SCALE
  • Mapped all existing workshops into the lifecycle (6 existing offerings catalogued)
  • Identified gaps: Capacity Building in BUILD/SHARPEN, Cross-Pollination in BUILD
  • Proposed 5 new offerings: Meet the Toolkit (SPARK), Privacy by Design + IRB Demystified (BUILD), Prototype to Pilot + User Testing Jam (SHARPEN)
  • Built interactive HTML visualization with Bootstrap Icons
  • Generated PDF for sharing with Josh
  • Created prep doc: prep/2026-02-19-josh-1on1-three-cs.md

Goals Update

  • Updated goals/half-quarter-goals-feb-2026.md — marked two deliverables DONE (three C’s proposal, seed grantee curriculum mapping)

System Fixes

  • Fixed Chrome — broken app bundle (empty .app), removed and reinstalled
  • Started dashboard on port 4561 (has Automator script for this)

Deferred

  • Trip receipts — pull Egencia + Lyft/food/parking, send to Moraima
  • Reply to Gregory Wilson re: Tinkery Toolkit
  • CRM re-engagement emails
  • Check in on Shelly (LDT)
  • Check sal-seed-grantees@lists.stanford.edu bounce

Notes for Tomorrow (Thursday)

Josh 1:1 (10:00 AM)

  • Lead with: Three C’s lifecycle visualization (PDF on Desktop, prep doc ready)
  • Debrief: Legal 101 went well
  • Discuss: Which proposed offerings to prioritize for Q2
  • Also: ISTE meeting prep (next Wed), end-of-month prep

CRAFT Team Meeting (2:00 PM)

  • Check in with Victor — he used mystery box materials for a talk
  • Christine/Shane: already emailed Shane directly, update Christine

Friday is OFF — snowboarding

  • Everything that needs to happen this week needs to happen tomorrow

Generated: Feb 18, 2026 evening

Source: daily/2026-02-18.md