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Daily Prep: Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Q2 Week 1 — AS Quarterly Planning is the main event. CRISPRkit first meeting this afternoon.

Carried Forward from Yesterday

Incomplete Action Items

  • Reply to Leon Furze — confirm reschedule (quick)
  • Forward Egencia receipts to Moraima — flight + hotel PDFs (overdue)
  • Reply to Anthony Pollina — review his AI lesson plan
  • Reply to Sergio Arango — SofIA Zoom now scheduled for Friday Apr 10 at 11am
  • Weigh in on Efface/Privacy Office thread — contract/vendor question
  • Draft CRM survey questions — Josh waiting
  • Register for ISTE Live 2026
  • Follow up with Vanessa Monterosa re: Flash Lab partnership
  • Send Rachel AI + learning-by-creating tool recommendations
  • Respond to Isabelle re: DCI Celebration June 5
  • Cat Nostrand follow-up (no reply since Mar 16)
  • Create Flash Lab inventory document (basic vs deluxe)

Open Questions/Blockers

  • Marily/Caitlin: IRB feedback on Health Coach Bot
  • Brooke (OTL): Geoff Cox + YouCubed contract precedent
  • ISTE: Alissa scheduling meeting with Jessica Rami + Isabelle — watch for invite

Today’s Calendar

10:00 AM — AS Quarterly Planning (90 min)

With: Josh Weiss, Joe Sherman Location: Zoom Context: THE Q2 kickoff meeting. Agenda: retrospective on closed projects, status on current projects, wins/challenges analysis, tag/OKR trends, brainstorm sharing opportunities, wrap-up (“is this enough?”). Your section: Tag analysis & trends. Present the 3-month rollout plan at prep/2026-04-08-tag-analysis-plan.md. Josh said Apr 2 it was “a good start” but “missing a bit about the human boost side” — address that. Joe’s section: Retrospective on closed projects + brainstorm sharing opportunities. Prep: Tag analysis plan is ready. Key data points: 140 records, STUDIO-BUILD on 70%, 3 ghost tags, 4 unofficial tags. Phased plan: April calibration, May-June retag, July confidence.

1:30 PM — CRISPRkit App (60 min)

With: Belinda Yeung Location: Zoom Context: First meeting. tEquity seed grant project — affordable CRISPR biotech for K-12 classrooms. Reuben organized this meeting. Connected via Alex Choi from the Mar 23 Studio Services meeting re: cross-platform app development + chatbot prompt design. Prep needed: Review what CRISPRkit needs technically. Come with questions about target platform, user base, and how AI/chatbot might fit.

6:00 PM — CAP Check-in with Jonathan

Location: Hope in the Valley Baptist Church, Hemet With: Jonathan (recurring Tuesday evening — shifted to Wed this week?)

Email Action Items

Needs Response

No new actionable emails today — inbox is quiet. Only newsletters (TLDR AI, Stanford Report, AMD).

Carryover Still Needing Response

  • Anthony Pollina — Lake Forest STEM teacher’s AI lesson plan review
  • Leon Furze — confirm reschedule (quick)
  • Isabelle Hau — DCI Celebration June 5

Slack Catch-Up (Past 7 Days)

Needs Response

  • Rachel Wolf (today, 7:36 AM): She’s losing her mind over the PS Creator 360 photo demo you sent this morning. Messages: “REUBEN”, “OH. EM. GEE. WHAT???”, “WHAT??”, “How??” — Reply explaining how the AI-generated 360 photo works. She’s also working on the aquaponics grant proposal (due next week) and may need more technical input.

FYI

  • Josh Weiss (Apr 3): “Hey Reuben. Do you have five minutes?” — you responded while at the theme park. Also noted the tag analysis plan was “a good start” but “missing a bit about the human boost side.” Address this in today’s quarterly planning.
  • No other urgent items. Stale unreads are old channel chatter (#cop-remote-workers, #general, #random).

Reminders

Personal (Claude list)

  • Ask Chris at Ascendant Aviation re: tax questions
  • Buy echinacea herb for cold
  • Read: OpenAI Prompt Caching 201 cookbook (overdue since Feb 26)
  • Read: arxiv.org/abs/2512.05470 (personal laptop)
  • Go through Google DeepMind skills collection

Claude-ToDo (mobile capture)

  • Google Workspace CLI — explore for EA system integration
  • Personal EA bot setup — figure out cross-machine context sharing (personal machine task)
  • Ask for 4/2 and 4/3 off — already done, PTO taken
  • SQLite for EA system — already implemented in dashboard ETL
  • Amazon Business payment check — make sure not paying for it (personal)

From Inbox Processing

INBOX.md is empty.

Cadence Checks

  • TIMECARD: Submitted.
  • SHAPING THE NARRATIVE WORKSHOP: Apr 16, 1-2pm. Joe sent reminder yesterday. Consider attending or recommending to seed grantees.
  • SofIA MEETING: Confirmed for Friday Apr 10 at 11am with Sergio Arango + Josh. Tech & AI questions for SofIA project.
  • JOSH 1:1 TOMORROW (10am): Q2 opener. Debrief quarterly planning, Stanford updates.
  • VFT SEED GRANTEE MONTHLY TOMORROW (1pm): Large group meeting — Kristen Blair, Ana Saavedra, Rachel Wolf, Cathy Chase, and many others.

This Week’s Key Dates

Day Date Key Events
Wed Apr 8 AS Quarterly Planning 10am, CRISPRkit 1:30pm, CAP 6pm
Thu Apr 9 Josh 1:1 10am, VFT Seed Grantee Monthly 1pm
Fri Apr 10 SofIA 11am (Sergio), Tinker Time Planning 1pm (Christine), Weekly Review 2pm
Sat Apr 11 [HOLD] AI Show

Today’s Priorities

Wednesday — Quarterly Planning dominates the morning. CRISPRkit is the afternoon highlight. Use gaps for email catch-up.

  1. AS Quarterly Planning (10am) — present tag analysis 3-month plan, contribute to Q1 retro. Address Josh’s “human boost” feedback. This is the big one.
  2. CRISPRkit meeting (1:30pm) — first meeting with Belinda Yeung. Cross-platform app dev for CRISPR K-12 kit. Come curious.
  3. Reply to Rachel Wolf on Slack — she’s thrilled about the 360 photo demo. Quick reply explaining how it works.
  4. Forward Egencia receipts to Moraima — overdue, quick win
  5. Reply to Anthony Pollina — Lake Forest STEM lesson review (can be brief)
  6. CAP 6pm — with Jonathan

Session Notes

(Added throughout the day as significant work sessions occur)

Generated: 2026-04-08 8:30 AM PDT (Wednesday — Q2 Week 1)

Source: daily/2026-04-08.md