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Daily Prep: Thursday, April 23, 2026

Heavy-ish day (4 calls after Chiropractor). Josh 1:1 first — surface the ISTE session logistics ask from Nadia. Studio Services/CRISPRkit 11am has been marked RESCHEDULING by Moraima, but CRISPRkit testing prep still needs to land this week. Dancing through Time 1pm with Cyan is the first check-in since winter — lead with empathy, she flagged being “under water” back in Oct.

Carried Forward from Wednesday (Apr 22)

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

CRISPRkit prep — meeting shows RESCHEDULING, but work still needed:

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

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 — ask Josh today which grantee wrote the “Cathy, Josh, Reuben” quote
  • 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: Nadia needs session title + 150-word description + presenter names/emails to finalize program (see Email below)

Today’s Calendar

8:00 AM — Chiropractor (Hemet, CA)

Badura D.C. Hemet Family Chiropractic. Solo.

10:00–10:45 AM — Josh ↔ Reuben 1:1

With: Josh Weiss Context: Weekly. Filing goes to meetings/josh-1on1s.md.

Agenda — your three known items:

  1. ISTE workshop prep — Nadia Selim (ISTE) emailed yesterday (cc’d you): they have the Wed 9-10:30am slot at ISTE Live in the AI Pavilion, and need session title, 150-word description, and presenter names/emails to put it in the program. Who drafts?

  2. Permission to apply for AI+Critical Thinking Grant — bring the application up on screen-share. Ask for green light to submit.

  3. List of organizations that match the criteria (carry-over from Apr 16 1:1 reflection — surfaced from your text-file notes; “what do I want, and who brings it?” / “leverage what I’ve already got” / “what does me in a year look like”). Walk in with a working draft, not a polished deck:

    Tier 0 — Stanford internal / Stanford-adjacent

    • PLEX (Professional Learning Extension) — Christine Bywater. META just landed; she’s already a co-facilitator anchor.
    • CRAFT — Victor Lee. AI+Education faculty lead; research-credibility engine.
    • AAA Lab — Dan Schwartz. Org-level sponsor; the “help the org grow into the next role” conversation routes through him.
    • Challenge Success — Drew Schrader. Stanford-adjacent, teacher-facing, warm.
    • YouCubed — ⚠️ flagged uncertain; only on the radar via Brooke/OTL contract precedent. Could drop.

    Tier 1 — External partnerships

    • ISTE/ASCD (active)
    • NewSchools Venture Fund (Vanessa Monterosa)
    • LAUSD (fall expo)
    • PhET / CU Boulder (Kathy Perkins)
    • PBLWorks / Buck Institute
    • Carnegie Learning

    Tier 2 — Frontier / funder-partner

    • Walton Family Foundation
    • CZI / LEGO Foundation (spitballing here)
    • OpenAI Academy / Anthropic education
    • Google for Education / Microsoft Education (distribution)

    Conferences / Stages (reach vehicle, not a partnership — separate bucket)

    • ISTE Live — locked
    • SXSWedu (March 2027) — broad reach, media, funder-friendly
    • ASU+GSV Summit (April 2027) — ed innovation + funders; Josh has context. 2026 just wrapped.
    • Learning & the Brain — cognition/learning-science-forward
    • CUE (California) — state-level teacher reach

    Frame for Josh: “I’m thinking about partners in three buckets — Stanford-internal (PLEX/CRAFT/AAA), external partnerships, and conference/stage bets. ISTE Live is our confirmed stage this year; the open question is whether to target one more — SXSWedu or ASU+GSV 2027 feel like the strongest candidates. Curious where you think the leverage is.”

    Criteria filter: Reach · Revenue/Model Validation · Identity Shift (does working with them change your day-to-day in a year?)

If time allows:

  • Quoted Impact — which grantee wrote the “consultation from Cathy Chase, Josh Weiss, Reuben Thiessen…” line Josh pasted in the Apr 21 DM? Need source to log it.
  • CRM survey questions — Josh still waiting; carry-forward from Mar 5. Commit to a date.
  • 3-year anniversary emails — still drafting. Flag for this week.
  • META Tinker Time #7 debrief — landed well per yesterday’s session notes. Any takeaways from Christine?
  • DeepLearning.AI Dev Day (Apr 28-29) — heads-up you’ll be off-campus in SF.

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM — Studio Services & CRISPRkit (RESCHEDULING per Moraima: “being moved to a later date, stay tuned.”)

Original attendees: Joe Sherman, Cathy Chase, Alex Choi, Josh Weiss, Moraima DiMare, Maren Pfirrmann, Reuben Action: Don’t attend (unless Moraima sends a new invite). Do use the window to knock out CRISPRkit prep (TestFlight download, GSE IT email, Chromebook research) so you’re ready whenever the re-scheduled meeting lands.

1:00–1:45 PM — Dancing through Time Check-in

With: Cyan DeVeaux (Stanford seed grantee), Josh Weiss, Joe Sherman Location: Zoom (pw: 706694) Context: Cyan’s seed grant is an MR experience for Black dance history (see projects/seed-grants/deveaux-dancing.md). Last communication was winter — Dec 3 you offered time before winter closure, Jan 13 you did a New Year “catch up?” note. Before that she flagged being “very under water” (Oct 21). This is the first sit-down in a while. Your role: You’re point on Cyan per running notes. Agenda the team has no doubt prepped — you’re supporting with studio-services framing and any AS:DE-level asks she has. Ask what’s shifted since winter and what she needs most right now. Filing: Meeting notes → meetings/running-notes.md; log contact via ETL. ⚠️ No people profile yet — create people/cyan-deveaux.md after the call.

2:00–3:00 PM — HOLD: Pete

Placeholder. No attendees, no notes. Confirm with yourself whether it’s live or can be released.

Slack Catch-Up

Unreads

  • 0 DMs surfaced by MCP scan of 50 channels (xoxp token limits — may be incomplete). No action required.

Worth keeping an eye on

  • Josh’s Apr 21 compiled-grantee-responses DM (you + Joe) is still open. Plan to ask him at today’s 1:1 which grantee produced the “Cathy, Josh, Reuben” quote — it’s your strongest Quoted Impact candidate.

Email Action Items

Needs Response (this week, not today)

  • Nadia Selim (ISTE) — “Re: Next steps” (Apr 22 11:42am) — ISTE needs session title, 150-word description, presenter names, presenter emails for the Wed 9-10:30am ISTELive slot in the AI Pavilion. Addressed to Josh, you’re cc’d. Raise at 1:1 — coordinate who drafts.

FYI / Watch

  • DeepLearning.AI “AI Dev 26 x SF” arrival info — Pier 48 SF. Early check-in Apr 27 4-7pm (skip lines), general check-in Apr 28 from 7am. Bring laptop + ID + Eventbrite ticket. Breakfast 7-9am both days.
  • M.E.T.A. Cohort 2 session recording (Apr 22) — Zoom notified assets are ready. Christine may want these; don’t need to grab unless she asks.
  • Newsletters skipped: Stanford Report, Google Cloud product update, OpenAI deprecation notices, Hechinger, Family Giving Tree, Zapier, Snowflake, TLDR, ASU+GSV wrap-up.

Today’s inbox (so far)

Only 1 email in the last 24h: Stanford Report newsletter. Skip.

From Inbox Processing

INBOX.md is empty. No routing needed.

Reminders

Reminders MCP down this morning (“Failed to get reminders from list: Claude” / “Claude-ToDo”). Check manually in the Reminders app; yesterday’s list was:

  • Personal (Claude): Ascendant Aviation tax Q, echinacea, OpenAI Caching 201, arxiv 2512.05470, DeepMind skills, Christyl anniversary (Jun 1), Lake Gregory (May 25)
  • Claude-ToDo: 5 items, personal/meta — no Fizzy cards needed

Cadence Checks

  • TIMECARD: Deadline Apr 30 (7 days out). Submit this week.
  • END OF MONTH: Apr 30 in 7 days. Run /monthly-airtable Thu afternoon or Fri (you’re out of office in SF Tue-Wed next week).
  • DeepLearning.AI Dev Day (Apr 28-29): 5 days out. Review agenda this week. Early check-in Mon Apr 27 4-7pm if you’re up north already.
  • Tomorrow (Fri Apr 24): Seed Grant Info Session 12pm, Weekly Personal Review 2pm. Lighter day.
  • Next week: AI Dev 26 Tue-Wed (Pier 48 SF). Anya Ma dissertation defense Tue 3pm — skip (conflict).
  • Fizzy: Still FIZZY_TOKEN_STANFORD auth error (“No API token configured”). Triage the board manually: https://app.fizzy.do/6182719/boards/03fusq83c6ss0zfeqhnvhu9k4
  • ISTE session deliverables (title + 150-word description + presenters) — not overdue yet but Nadia’s ask is the first concrete ISTELive program deadline. Ideally resolved this week.

This Week Look-Ahead

Day Date Events
Thu Apr 23 Chiropractor (8am), Josh 1:1 (10am), Studio Services & CRISPRkit (11am) rescheduling, Dancing through Time (1pm), HOLD: Pete (2pm)
Fri Apr 24 Seed Grant Info Session (12pm), Weekly Personal Review (2pm)
Mon Apr 27 DL.AI early check-in 4-7pm (optional)
Tue Apr 28 AI Dev 26 — Pier 48 SF (full day)
Wed Apr 29 AI Dev 26 — Pier 48 SF (full day)

Today’s Priorities

  1. Josh 1:1 (10am) — raise ISTE session logistics ask from Nadia, ask Josh which grantee wrote the Apr 21 quote, commit to CRM survey timeline.
  2. Use the freed-up 11am hour for CRISPRkit prep — TestFlight download, GSE IT email, Chromebook research. The rescheduled meeting will come back and you want to be ready.
  3. Dancing through Time 1pm — supportive check-in with Cyan; create her people profile after. Ask what shifted since winter.
  4. Submit timecard + plan monthly Airtable run — both due by Apr 30; you’re in SF Tue-Wed next week so Friday is the real window.
  5. Moraima receipts — still in Drafts from yesterday. Send it.

Session Notes

(Added throughout the day as significant work sessions occur)

Generated: 2026-04-23 ~7:15 AM PDT (Thursday)

Source: daily/2026-04-23.md