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Daily Prep: Friday, February 27, 2026

Location: Home (Hemet) Note: Light meeting day — 2 events. Colombia 8am (early, timezone-driven), then Weekly Personal Review at 2pm. Good day for clearing deferred items, trip receipts, and Axess timecard (due tomorrow). Flight to SEE later today — email avionics shop re: annual inspection.

Carried Forward from Thursday Feb 26

Done Yesterday

  • Josh 1:1 — ISTE debrief, reviewed Google Doc, discussed next steps
  • Christine Bywater / PLEX chat — learned about PLEX initiative, Lake Forest visit (March 30 – April 1)
  • Tinkery Toolkit meeting with Gregory Wilson — Build-a-Bot facilitator training planned, Flash Lab at Tinkery confirmed March 30
  • Legal 101 follow-up email drafted and sent
  • Capacity building model, SMART goals, “5 questions” exercise, SAL differentiator — all completed
  • Map three core personas to partner pathways — done
  • Dashboard: redesigned home page, fixed meetings parser, updated all 34 people profiles

Still Open — Urgent

  • Trip receipts for Moraima — 14 days overdue! Egencia receipts recovered but not submitted.
  • Submit Axess timecard — due tomorrow (Feb 28). Do today before weekend.
  • Send moderator bot info to Sarah Williams-Habibi
  • OpenAI content flagging policy research (for Sarah/Rachel/Kyla)

Still Open — This Week

  • Follow up with Cathy on Learning Science Principle Cheat Sheet (ABCs Bots)
  • CrashPlan backup — device hasn’t backed up in 4+ days
  • Reply to Cat Nostrand re: NCCE recording/updates

Today’s Calendar

8:00 AM — AI After — Colombia

With: Ana Saavedra (CEPA Research Scholar) Duration: 2 hours

Context: Ongoing Colombia Field Trip research project — AI chatbot intervention for 4th graders. Ana is at CEPA (Center for Education Policy Analysis). Reuben’s role is chatbot design and reading level calibration. Multi-modal approach using Gemini, 3 groups in study design.

Prep: Check current state of Colombia chatbot. Last interaction notes were about “get to know you” questions structure (two “what” questions → transition to “why” questions). Review any data Ana may have sent.

2:00 PM — Weekly Personal Review

Solo session (recurring weekly)

Use this block for:

  • Review action items — what’s done, what’s stale, what needs escalation
  • ISTE follow-ups triage (big batch from this week)
  • Tinkery/Christine follow-ups triage
  • Process any remaining inbox items
  • Trip receipts + Axess timecard if not done yet
  • Consider running /synthesis (it’s been a while)

Email Action Items

Needs Action

  • Isabelle Hau — AI Infrastructure RFP: K-12 AI infrastructure RFP (datasets & benchmarks) at k12-ai-infrastructure.org. Deadline: March 8. Review the RFP and decide if it aligns with SAL/Accelerator Studio work. Flag for Josh if worth pursuing.

Low Priority

  • Thomas Steinman (Flint K-12): Sales re-engagement email. Ignore or brief decline.
  • Data Sharing Prize nominations (Stanford Libraries) — deadline March 31. FYI only.

Newsletters (key headlines)

  • Anthropic vs. Department of War — Dario Amodei refusing to remove safeguards for mass surveillance/autonomous weapons. Relevant for AI ethics discussions.
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview tops benchmarks — outperforming Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.2 on several benchmarks. Cheaper per task. Worth noting for workshop tool recommendations.
  • “SaaSpocalypse” — Claude Cowork and open-source plugins causing SaaS stock selloff. Big trend.
  • Local AI vs. Cloud (Stanford + Together AI) — Intelligence per watt on local devices rose 5.3x (2023-2025). Laptops handle ~88.7% of queries correctly vs. cloud. Directly relevant for education settings with connectivity/privacy concerns.
  • Vibe Coding and the Maker Movement — tension between fast creation and critical evaluation. Relevant to Build-a-Bot workshop design.
  • DeepLearning.AI Skill Builder — free AI skills assessment tool. Could share with workshop participants.

Reminders

Overdue

  • Club meeting flight vouchers idea (was due yesterday) — did the HVFC meeting happen? Follow up.
  • Read: OpenAI Prompt Caching 201 cookbook (2 days overdue — personal laptop)

Upcoming (next 7 days)

  • Jonathan’s DMV driver test — Tuesday, March 3 at 8am (4 days out)

Personal (no due date)

  • Pay HVFC dues
  • Ask Chris at Ascendant Aviation re: tax questions
  • Buy echinacea herb for cold
  • Email avionics shop in SEE — check on annual inspection (doing this today if flying to SEE)

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Today’s Priorities

Priority order: (1) Time-sensitive external, (2) Admin deadlines, (3) Clearing deferred items, (4) Weekly review

  1. AI After — Colombia (8am) — check chatbot data status, discuss next steps with Ana
  2. Submit Axess timecard — due tomorrow, do today before weekend
  3. Trip receipts for Moraima — 14 days overdue. Pull from Egencia, collect Lyft/food/parking, send to Moraima.
  4. Review AI Infrastructure RFP from Isabelle — March 8 deadline. Quick scan to decide if worth pursuing.
  5. Weekly Personal Review (2pm) — triage ISTE + Tinkery/Christine follow-ups, update action items
  6. Email avionics shop in SEE — if flying to SEE today, check on annual inspection
  7. Book Stanford trip (Sun March 29 – Wed April 1) — Tinkery Mon, Lake Forest Tue-Wed. Book ASAP per yesterday’s notes.

If Time Permits

  • Send moderator bot info to Sarah Williams-Habibi
  • OpenAI content flagging policy research
  • Follow up with Cathy on Learning Science cheat sheet
  • CrashPlan backup
  • Run /synthesis

Session Notes

End of Day Summary

  • Completed:
    • Colombia chatbot bug fixes for Ana — she ran the study, went well. She needs the data exported.
    • Axess timecard submitted
    • Dashboard: fixed duplicate last calendar event bug in parse_daily_calendar
    • Dashboard: set up Tailscale serve — dashboard now accessible from phone/other devices at http://gse7527760.taildec3ba.ts.net/ (added .ts.net to Sinatra host authorization)
    • LabGPT project file updated — custom domain active (labgpt.gse.stanford.edu), model updated, Cathy tested, data download page shown. Renamed cathy-chatbot.md → labgpt.md with FeedbackGPT lineage notes.
    • Action items cleanup — Cathy cheat sheet clarified as review (not email), Marily meeting rescheduled to Tue Mar 4 9am, Cheddar 3D print moved to active section
  • In Progress: Trip receipts (may still get done tonight)
  • Deferred: Moderator bot info for Sarah, OpenAI content flagging research, Cat Nostrand reply, weekly review/synthesis

Notes for Tomorrow (Monday)

  • Clean calendar — no meetings. Good day for trip receipts if not done tonight, and Stanford trip booking.
  • Tuesday is packed: Jonathan’s DMV test (7:30am), Marily 9am, AS:DE team meeting (11am), Build-a-Bot training with Gregory (2pm), CAP (6:30pm)
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