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Daily Prep: Wednesday, April 22, 2026

META Tinker Time day. 9-11am is the main event — yesterday’s Spellar run-through notes are the pre-flight checklist. Otherwise a quiet inbox. Heavy Thursday tomorrow (4 meetings) — CRISPRkit prep must land today.

Carried Forward from Tuesday (Apr 21)

Incomplete Action Items (cross-checked against action-items.md)

Tinker Time — ✅ DONE, session landed well

  • Add concrete real-world chatbot-interface examples
  • Launch pad ready (PDFs, bitly, timers, deployment slide)
  • Move privacy slide earlier
  • Script framing statements

CRISPRkit — Thursday prep (tomorrow 11am):

  • Download CRISPRkit TestFlight (code: NGEHQB)
  • Check with GSE IT re: loaner Android / Chromebooks
  • Research Android-on-Chromebook deployment

Other open:

  • Retag meeting notes — Josh’s 3 Google Doc action items (Apr 8)
  • Confirm/send Moraima Egencia receipts — draft still in Drafts
  • 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)
  • SofIA auth flow / schema / conversation memory design
  • SofIA Prompt Lab advisory
  • Draft 3-year Accelerator anniversary emails (Josh, Kristen, Cathy, Isabelle)
  • Quoted Impact entries — still open after yesterday’s false start. Josh’s Apr 21 DM with grantee-reported AS support is a strong seed (grantees explicitly named you + Cathy + Josh in write-ups).
  • Lane Young / Alexander Dawson trio meeting — waiting for Christine to schedule

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 — Prep (30 min, solo block)

Pre-session final check: deck state, launch pad, bitly, PDFs, timers, privacy slide order.

9:00–11:00 AM — M.E.T.A. Professional Learning #7: Tinker Time

With: Christine Bywater (facilitator), META Institute Cohort 2 (teachers/educators) Location: Zoom (pw: 328189) Context: The real deal. Yesterday’s run-through with Christine finalized the run-of-show: 5-min chat → breakout → 10-min build → 5-min tweak → pair share → publish. Privacy slide moved up before demo. Two guiding AI-literacy questions + designer perspective prompt. Slides 33-41 hidden, 27-28 removed, 26-32 exported to PDF for launch pad. Your role: Co-facilitator with Christine. Main contributions: real-world chatbot-interface examples, framing statements, demo of remix/build workflow. Christine will drive most slides; you hold the platform demo and the “what role do humans and AI play in solutions?” thread. Session notes: Full Spellar transcript + summary at meetings/spellar/2026-04-20-tinker-time-run-through.md

6:00 PM — CAP Check-in with Jonathan (1 hr)

Recurring weekly. No prep needed.

Slack Catch-Up

Worth a look

  • Josh’s Apr 21 DM (you + Joe) — Josh shared a compiled block of grantee responses to “What kinds of support have you received from the Accelerator Studio?” One response names you directly: “we have received consultation from Cathy Chase, Josh Weiss, Reuben Thiessen, and others. This has been very valuable in regard to grounding our work in learning research and insights and in helping us reflect on our prototyping learnings and experiments.” Source grantee not indicated in Josh’s paste — ask him which project if you want to use it as Quoted Impact.
  • Joe’s Apr 16 thanks — post-workshop, already acknowledged.
  • Kristen’s Apr 16 VFT ask — done (replied-all yesterday).

No new DMs requiring response

Unreads remain in the usual public channels (#cop-ai, #edai, #stanford-genai-events, #gse-data) — not urgent.

Email Action Items

Needs Response

Nothing urgent — inbox quiet this morning.

Needs Action

None new.

FYI / Watch

Newsletters only: TLDR AI (Qwen3.5-Omni, always-on ChatGPT agents), Stanford Report, Snowflake public sector, Family Giving Tree, BeWell Move Your Way. Skip.

From Inbox Processing

Processed 3 entries:

  • Apr 21 11:14 — Jessica Tsang will manage the big new grant. You took a class with her ~10 years ago; she co-taught with Kristen Pilner Blair. → Added action item to clarify which grant + her role. No people profile yet (not enough context; will create after first direct interaction).
  • Apr 21 11:31 — mybook.fyi Airtable missing check-ins/builds. → Added action item to audit by cross-referencing emails with Wen.
  • Apr 21 16:51 — Spellar: Tinker Time Run Through. → Already filed at meetings/spellar/2026-04-20-tinker-time-run-through.md. Action items rolled into today’s carryover (pre-session) rather than added to action-items.md as standalone tasks, since they’re session-prep deliverables with today’s 9am hard deadline.

Inbox cleared.

Reminders

Personal (Claude list) — unchanged

  • 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) — unchanged

5 items, personal/meta. No Fizzy cards needed.

Cadence Checks

  • TIMECARD: Deadline Apr 30 (8 days out). No action today.
  • END OF MONTH: Apr 30 in 8 days. This week is the right time to start /monthly-airtable entries — block 30 min Thu or Fri.
  • DeepLearning.AI Dev Day (Apr 28-29): 6 days out. Review agenda before end of week.
  • Thursday (tomorrow) is heavy: Chiropractor 8am → Josh 1:1 10am → CRISPRkit 11am → Dancing through Time 1pm → HOLD: Pete 2pm. CRISPRkit prep MUST land today.
  • Fizzy: Still FIZZY_TOKEN_STANFORD auth error. Check the board manually at https://app.fizzy.do/6182719/boards/03fusq83c6ss0zfeqhnvhu9k4

This Week Look-Ahead

Day Date Events
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) — skip (conflicts).

Today’s Priorities

  1. Land META Tinker Time well (9-11am) — your real-world examples + demo + framing support Christine. Show up prepped and present.
  2. CRISPRkit prep for tomorrow — download TestFlight, email GSE IT, Chromebook-Android research. Block time right after Tinker Time, before lunch.
  3. Quoted Impact entries — ask Josh which grantee wrote the “Cathy, Josh, Reuben” quote in his Apr 21 DM; that’s your one usable entry. Kill the stalled task.
  4. Moraima receipts — still in Drafts. Send today.
  5. Draft 3-year anniversary emails — still open from Monday.

Session Notes

META PL #7: Tinker Time (9-11am) — landed well

Reuben’s read: “went AWESOME, they loved it.” Co-facilitated with Christine. Session ran the full run-of-show from yesterday’s dry-run: guiding AI-literacy questions, privacy-first framing, demo/remix flow, timed breakouts, publish. Strong reception from the META Cohort 2 educators.

Candidate for Quoted Impact if specific attendee reactions were captured.

Generated: 2026-04-22 ~8:00 AM PDT (Wednesday)

Source: daily/2026-04-22.md