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Daily Prep: Tuesday, April 21, 2026

AS:DE day — Joe’s Quoted Impact nudge is due before 11am. Busy evening (CAP 6:30pm). Good morning focus window between Ardent and AS:DE.

Carried Forward from Monday (Apr 20)

Incomplete Action Items

  • Reply-all to Alison’s VFT seed grantee email — VFT cam + photosphere tool + Google Doc (Kristen’s Apr 16 ask) — done
  • Retag meeting notes — Josh’s 3 Google Doc action items (Apr 8)
  • Confirm/send Moraima Egencia receipts — draft still in Drafts as of Apr 16
  • Reply to Anthony Pollina — review his AI lesson plan
  • Weigh in on Efface/Privacy Office thread
  • Draft CRM survey questions — Josh still waiting
  • Follow up with Vanessa Monterosa re: Flash Lab partnership
  • Send Rachel AI + learning-by-creating tool recommendations
  • Cat Nostrand follow-up (no reply since Mar 16)
  • Create Flash Lab inventory document (basic vs deluxe)
  • Download CRISPRkit TestFlight (code: NGEHQB) — Thu meeting prep
  • Check with GSE IT re: loaner Android / Chromebooks — Thu meeting prep
  • Research Android-on-Chromebook deployment — Thu meeting prep
  • SofIA auth flow / schema / conversation memory design
  • SofIA Prompt Lab advisory

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

8:30 AM — Ardent Mentoring Session: Leopold & Reuben (1 hr)

With: Leopold (TM Teaching, South Africa) Location: Google Meet Context: Recurring bi-monthly mentoring. Leopold pays out of his own pocket for this — always prep something useful. Previous sessions have covered AI tooling for his teaching practice, chatbot building, and workflow design. Prep needed: Quick scan of last session notes if any — otherwise let Leopold drive the agenda.

11:00 AM — AS:DE Meeting (45 min)

With: Josh Weiss, Joe Sherman Location: Zoom Context: Weekly team meeting. Prep needed: Add 2-3 Quoted Impact entries to Airtable before this meeting (Joe’s bi-weekly nudge — last done 2 weeks ago). Candidates: sofIA meeting, Dan/Josh Q2 meeting, Shaping the Narrative workshop. Also surface the Lane Young (Alexander Dawson) PD opportunity — Josh already said “heck yes” to Christine; budget question is open.

6:30 PM — Civil Air Patrol (2.5 hrs)

Location: Hope in the Valley Baptist Church, Hemet Context: Weekly CFI volunteer. Recurring.

Slack Catch-Up

New — Needs Response

Nothing new flagged. 12 channels have unreads but they’re mostly general/random chatter, not DMs or @mentions.

Unreads worth a quick scan

  • #cop-ai, #edai, #stanford-genai-events, #gse-data — AI-education channels, occasional useful signal
  • #general, #random — skip unless meeting talk

Email Action Items

Needs Response

Nothing urgent. Jessica Garner (ISTE) replied this morning — low-action (Nadia will follow up separately with program-listing asks).

Needs Action

  • Lane Young / Alexander Dawson PD — Christine connected on Fri Apr 17, Josh replied this morning (6am). Josh asked Christine for the school’s budget. Christine will set up a trio meeting with Lane. You’re on the meeting when it lands. Flash Lab + possible coaching arc. 15-20 “high flier” teachers, K/3-8, vibe coding territory.
  • Christine’s Google Slides comment (Apr 20, 10:54am) — “@reuben Add concrete examples in the real world. How to do this in a chatbot interface?” on PL7_Tinker Time4_22April2026. Must address before Wednesday’s 9am META session.
  • Joe’s Quoted Impact — bi-weekly reminder, do before 11am AS:DE.

FYI / Watch

  • ISTE “Re: Next steps” (Jessica Garner, today): Nadia Selim will follow up with program-listing info for AI Pavilion session (90 min). May meeting on calendar already. No action now.
  • Tinkery events for the week (Gregory Wilson) — glance for anything relevant.
  • GPS Self-Narrative Workshop (Thu Apr 23, 12pm Zoom) — Christina Fajardo. Starts as CRISPRkit wraps (11-12). RSVP if attending.
  • Newsletters skipped: Stanford Report, Data Points @ DeepLearning.AI, ASU+GSV, Stanford CME/BeWell, Eventbrite autolink, pyannote, Venture Studio, transportation survey.

From Inbox Processing

Processed 1 entry:

  • Apr 20 08:48 — Draft 3-year anniversary emails to Josh, Kristen, Cathy, Isabelle. Theme: celebrating three years at the Accelerator, reflecting on cool work together, excited for what’s next. Pull specific examples for Josh/Kristen/Cathy; Isabelle gets a general thanks. Added to action-items.md as today’s priority. When ready, ask Claude to draft — remember to run /stop-slop after.

Inbox cleared.

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
  • Plan something special for Christyl — 24th anniversary (due Jun 1)
  • Book Lake Gregory trip — June 8 (due May 25)

Claude-ToDo (mobile capture)

5 items unchanged — personal/meta (Google Workspace CLI, personal EA bot, SQLite, Amazon Business, NASA tweet). No Fizzy cards needed.

Cadence Checks

  • TIMECARD: Deadline is Apr 30 (9 days out). No action today.
  • END OF MONTH: April 30 is 9 days away. Consider /monthly-airtable entries later this week.
  • DeepLearning.AI Dev Day (Tue-Wed Apr 28-29): 7 days out. Review agenda today/tomorrow. Flights + hotel booked.
  • Wed META Tinker Time (9am): Christine’s “concrete real-world examples” comment needs action before tomorrow.
  • Thu CRISPRkit (11am): 3 open prep items (TestFlight, GSE IT, Chromebook-Android research). Knock down at least two today.
  • Quoted Impact: Add to Airtable before 11am AS:DE.
  • Fizzy: Still blocked on FIZZY_TOKEN_STANFORD env var — auth error persists. Check board manually if needed.

This Week Look-Ahead

Day Date Events
Tue Apr 21 Ardent Mentoring (8:30am), AS:DE (11am), CAP (6:30pm)
Wed Apr 22 Prep (8:30am), META Tinker Time (9-11am), CAP Check-in (6pm)
Thu Apr 23 Chiropractor (8am), Josh 1:1 (10am), Studio Services & CRISPRkit (11am), Dancing through Time (1pm), HOLD: Pete (2pm)
Fri Apr 24 Seed Grant Info Session (12pm), Weekly Personal Review (2pm)

Next Week: DeepLearning.AI Dev Day in SF (Tue-Wed Apr 28-29). Anya Ma Dissertation Defense (Tue 3pm) — conflicts, skip.

Today’s Priorities

  1. Quoted Impact entries to Airtable — before 11am AS:DE (Joe’s nudge)
  2. Christine’s Tinker Time slide comment — add concrete real-world chatbot-interface examples before Wed 9am
  3. Draft 3-year anniversary emails (Josh, Kristen, Cathy, Isabelle) — from inbox
  4. CRISPRkit prep work — TestFlight + GSE IT email + Chromebook-Android research (for Thu)
  5. Moraima receipts — confirm/send the drafted email
  6. DL.AI Dev Day agenda review — 7 days out

Session Notes

(Added throughout the day as significant work sessions occur)

Generated: 2026-04-21 ~8:05 AM PDT (Tuesday)

Source: daily/2026-04-21.md