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Daily Prep: Friday, April 24, 2026

Light day on the calendar (Seed Grant Info Session 12pm + Weekly Personal Review 2pm). Big unblock overnight: Jessica Tsang said no COI on the AI+CT grant — go ahead and apply. That clears yesterday’s biggest open question and opens the runway for the Unanswer proposal. Use the open afternoon for two things that will get harder once you’re in SF: monthly Airtable run + ISTE 150-word session draft.

Carried Forward from Thursday (Apr 23)

Resolved overnight

✅ Jessica Tsang COI question — She replied 8:24am: “I agree there is no conflict of interest, given that the Studio will not be supporting thought leadership awardees. Please go ahead and apply.” → AI+CT info-session attendance is now optional (for content, not COI clarification).

Cyan DeVeaux follow-ups (filed from Spellar transcript)

Intro Cyan to Kathy Kerns (Stanford lead librarian) for participant recruitment
Find/share Tech Interactive (San Jose) contact card with Cyan
Connect Cyan with Brian Brown + HCI devs re: Unity captioning + dialogue management
Connect Cyan with Tim/Tammin (Joyful Learning) as community-program connectors
Connect Cyan with Cathy Chase for study-design sounding board
Schedule recurring 4–6 week Cyan check-ins (Cyan, Josh, Joe, Reuben)

Other carryover (still open)

From Josh 1:1 yesterday (Apr 23)

Register for ISTE through Moraima ($385 presenter rate, AS ops code) — due by May 1
Draft 150-word ISTE session description (riff off Lake Forest 90-min structure)
Free-write homework: 5 min walking + 20 min pen-and-paper on “robust” — Josh’s assignment
Bring “Reach” framing to next 1:1 (Apr 30)

Open Questions/Blockers

Marily/Caitlin: IRB feedback on Health Coach Bot
Brooke (OTL): Geoff Cox + YouCubed contract precedent
ISTE: Josh and Reuben to align on session title + 150-word description before sending to Nadia

Today’s Calendar

12:00–1:00 PM — Seed Grant Info Session

With: Public/prospective Stanford seed grant applicants (Zoom) Context: Standard info session. No prep needed; show up, listen, possibly answer Studio-services questions if they come up. The 1:1 yesterday surfaced that you might pitch in if AI+CT-track questions surface. Zoom: Join (PW: 403151)

1:00 PM — AI in Teaching & Learning Info Session (possibly conflicts/overlaps)

Context: Yesterday’s plan was to attend specifically to ask Jessica Tsang about COI on the AI+CT track. Jessica answered overnight via email — you’re cleared to apply. Decision point: drop in for content if useful, or skip and use the time for ISTE 150-word draft + monthly Airtable. Your call.

2:00–3:00 PM — Weekly Personal Review (recurring)

Solo block. Use it for the GPS free-write Josh assigned: 5 min walking + 20 min pen-and-paper on “robust” (no computer). Do this before the work below — it’s the thing that will get squeezed out otherwise.

Slack Catch-Up

Worth flagging

Rachel Wolf (Apr 23, 14:55) DM — Asked for a viewer-only photosphere app for Cal Academy of Sciences VFT collab (Kyla leading). They’re worried about T&Cs of third-party viewers. Wanted “the next couple weeks.” Today 13:31 she replied “AMAZING Thank you so much, Reuben” — looks resolved/delivered. ✅ No action.
Josh DM thread (Apr 22, 23:53–23:59) — CRISPRkit funding: Josh hesitant to “manage other people’s devices” but said you could help identify the right device + testing methods. Said “Perfect” when you replied. ✅ Resolved. Belinda Yeung email re: React Native is in your action items.
Josh 3-person DM (Apr 21, 18:25) — The compiled grantee responses. The “consultation from Cathy Chase, Josh Weiss, Reuben Thiessen…” line is the first response in that text dump (paragraph 1) — it’s anonymous in Josh’s paste. Still need to ask Josh which grantee submitted that response if you want to log it as Quoted Impact with attribution.

No action needed

Josh’s robotics-event Apr 21 messages (“having some feelings… most empathy I’ve felt for a robot”)
Saved by the Bell DM banter (Apr 23)

Email Action Items

Resolved (read)

✅ Jessica Tsang — Re: AI+CT seed grant — No COI, go ahead and apply. Reply not required (closed loop), unless you want a quick “thanks, will submit by [date].”

FYI / Watch

Wen — “Update: Chart Decoder” — Wen had ER visits (cat scratched her face), pulled out of stock market, pivoting to “Crisis OS” (algorithmic divination triage system). Pasted a long Chart Decoder system prompt. Asks: “Should we build a full product?” This reads as personal/side-project, not Studio scope. Light reply if you want to engage personally; no work obligation.
Egencia — DL.AI Dev Day trip info — Hotel: The Mosser, 54 4th St, check-in Apr 28, check-out Apr 29. United 2363 ONT→SFO 6am Tue, United 552 SFO→ONT 9:09pm Wed.
RILE Speaker Series — Maria D. Velazquez Apr 30 6pm — gsecommunity FYI. Skip unless interested.
Newsletters skipped: OpenAI GPT-5.5, Vectara, Hechinger, TLDR AI, Stanford Report.

Today’s inbox load

9 emails since midnight, all newsletters or routine except the two above. Light morning.

Reminders

Reminders MCP still down (same error as yesterday: “Failed to get reminders from list: Claude” / “Claude-ToDo”). Check the Reminders app manually if you’ve added anything via mobile.

From Inbox Processing

INBOX.md cleared — all content from Apr 23–24 was processed:

CRISPRkit research notes (Android streaming, BrowserStack, Samsung A16 vs Pixel 10a) → filed in projects/crisprkit.md (Apr 23–24 update section)
ISTE/Moraima registration → action item already in action-items.md (iste-register-moraima)
“August 2027” / Reach + Robust reflections → captured in meetings/josh-1on1s.md Apr 23 entry
Apr 24 Josh 1:1 transcript (Spellar) → already filed in josh-1on1s.md; duplicate cleared
Apr 24 17:53 TO DO list (Belinda / ISTE blurb / Moraima) → all in action items

Cadence Checks

TIMECARD: Deadline Apr 30 (6 days). Today is the cleanest window (Mon DL.AI, Tue–Wed in SF, Thu mostly meetings). Submit via Axess.
END OF MONTH: Apr 30 in 6 days. Today is the best day to run /monthly-airtable — you’ll be in SF Tue–Wed, returning Wed night. End-of-month meeting is Mon Apr 27, 10:30–11:15 AM per AS:DE rescheduling.
AS:DE moved to Mon Apr 27, 11:15 AM–12:00 PM (right after end-of-month meeting). 30 min before you head to SF.
DeepLearning.AI Dev Day (Apr 28–29): 4 days out. Hotel + flights confirmed. Early check-in Mon Apr 27 4–7pm at Pier 48 (optional). Bring laptop + ID + Eventbrite ticket.
Josh 1:1 next week: Thu Apr 30, 10–10:45 AM. Come ready with “reach” framing + completed “robust” free-write.
SofIA Tech iteration: Thu Apr 30, 2–3 PM (with Sergio + Micaela).
Fizzy: still broken (auth + flag rename). Triage Maybe column manually until fixed: https://app.fizzy.do/6182719/boards/03fusq83c6ss0zfeqhnvhu9k4

This Week + Next Look-Ahead

Day	Date	Events
Fri	Apr 24	Seed Grant Info Session (12pm), Weekly Personal Review (2pm)
Sun	Apr 26	—
Mon	Apr 27	End-of-month (10:30am), AS:DE (11:15am), HOLD 100x (12pm), DL.AI early check-in 4–7pm (optional)
Tue	Apr 28	AI Dev 26 — Pier 48 SF (Flight ONT→SFO 6am)
Wed	Apr 29	AI Dev 26 — Pier 48 SF (Flight SFO→ONT 9:09pm), CAP Tue evening
Thu	Apr 30	Chiropractor 8am, Josh 1:1 10am (TIMECARD DUE), SofIA 2pm
Fri	May 1	Weekly Personal Review 2pm

Today’s Priorities

GPS “robust” free-write (during 2pm Personal Review block, pen-and-paper) — Josh’s homework, due before next 1:1.
Submit timecard (Axess) — 6 days out but today is the cleanest window.
Run /monthly-airtable — end-of-month meeting Mon morning; you’re in SF Tue–Wed; today is the only quiet day.
Draft ISTE 150-word session description — needs to go to Nadia + run by Josh; presenter registration due May 1.
Send Belinda Yeung email re: React Native options for CRISPRkit (carried from yesterday’s TO DO).
Cyan intros — at least one of {Kathy Kerns, Brian Brown, Cathy Chase} sent today to keep momentum from yesterday’s meeting.

Session Notes

(Added throughout the day as significant work sessions occur)

Morning (~7am PDT)

Spellar webhook didn’t fire for the Apr 23 Cyan meeting; pasted the Spellar summary manually and filed across meetings/running-notes.md, projects/seed-grants/deveaux-dancing.md, people/cyan-deveaux.md, and action-items.md. Project status flipped 🔴 Stalled → 🟢 Active.
Project surfaced: Fizzy CLI is broken (auth + flag rename --tag → --tag-ids). Diagnosing today.

Generated: 2026-04-24 ~7:30 AM PDT (Friday)

Source: daily/2026-04-24.md

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