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Daily Prep: Friday, May 8, 2026

Bouncing back from a sick day. Lane Young 10am is the only external-facing meeting — and it’s the first call with Lane, not a follow-up. Tue May 5 was rescheduled to today, so this is the discovery + scoping + (possibly) pricing conversation Christine teed up. Cost sheet went to Josh Wed evening; he hasn’t signed off yet (the “Of course. I hope you feel better” was the last DM). After Lane: Jacob seed grant 11am (rescheduled from Wed), Weekly Personal Review 2pm.

Carried Forward from Thursday (May 7)

Yesterday — sick day

All meetings cancelled. Josh 1:1 pushed to Monday afternoon May 11. Nothing landed; nothing got worse.

What survived the sick day

✅ Reach/Robust doc — drafted at prep/2026-05-07-josh-1on1-reach-robust.md. Resonance proposed as third leg, with Renewal/Relevance/Reciprocity as alternates. Ready to send to Josh before Monday’s 1:1.
✅ Cost sheet to Josh (sent Tue eve) — still no feedback. Reasonable given his sick-day grace; chase Mon if no response.
✅ DCI June 5 update from Josh this morning — Josh confirmed he can attend and help out with the 50-person Distinguished Careers Institute Flash Lab. You replied asking about night-before logistics. Awaiting Josh’s reply on planning details.

Critical / time-sensitive (re-floated from May 7)

🔴 Lane Young 10am — see prep below
Send Reach/Robust doc to Josh — before Monday afternoon 1:1
Egencia receipts → Moraima (Dev Day pile)
SofIA security doc — Sergio + Micaela. Yesterday’s session was cancelled; re-surface next time.

Open carryover (still active)

Cyan DeVeaux intro chain (still rolling)

Intro Cyan to Kathy Kerns / Tech Interactive / Brian Brown / Tim-Tammin / Cathy Chase
Schedule recurring 4–6 week Cyan check-ins

Waiting On Others

Josh — Flash Lab cost sheet review (sent Wed eve) + DCI June 5 logistics (asked this morning) + Monday 1:1 reschedule confirmation
Christian Haake (NLQ) — German Build-a-Bot translated JSON received May 5; integration on Reuben’s plate now
Marily / Caitlin — IRB feedback on Health Coach Bot
Brooke (OTL) — Geoff Cox + YouCubed contract precedent
Alissa (ISTE) — scheduling meeting with Jessica Rami + Isabelle

Today’s Calendar

7:00–9:30 AM PT — HOLD for HMT

Personal block. No work prep.

10:00–10:45 AM PT — Lane Young | Accelerator Studio [AI Flash Lab] 🔴

With: Lane Young (Director of Digital Learning & Technology, Alexander Dawson School at Rainbow Mountain, Las Vegas), Josh Weiss Zoom: Join (PW: 791557)

This is the FIRST call with Lane. The originally-scheduled Tue May 5 meeting got rescheduled to today, so today is discovery — no shared history yet. Lane meets you and Josh cold (warm intro from Christine Bywater, who’s now handed off and isn’t on the call).

Context (full profile at people/lane-young.md):

Origin: Christine Bywater connected you both on Apr 17 → Josh replied “heck yes” Apr 21 (and asked Christine for the school’s budget — open question). Tue May 5 call was rescheduled to today.
Role: Lane started Jul 2025 as Dir Digital Learning & Tech at Alexander Dawson (independent K-8 school, Las Vegas). 8 prior years at Phillips Brooks School (Menlo Park). Library/teacher background → comes at tech from a child-first lens, not infrastructure-first.
What Christine framed as the ask: explore Flash Lab delivery at Alexander Dawson for a fee. Independent school = budget likely available. Christine called it “vibe coding territory,” likely Flash Lab + coaching arc for ~15–20 high-flier teachers, K/3–8.

🚨 Posture — first-call mode:

Discovery first. What’s Lane actually trying to solve at Alexander Dawson? Don’t assume Christine’s framing is the right one — let Lane describe the problem in his own words.
Listen for the hook — what part of the Flash Lab story (or your work generally) made him say yes to a call. That hook informs the proposal.
Confirm scope shape — audience size, format (single workshop vs. coaching arc), dates, internal stakeholders. You’ll need this before any number.
Pricing posture: defer. Josh hasn’t signed off on the cost sheet yet (sent Wed eve, sick day intervened). If Lane pushes on cost, frame as “we’ll send a written scope + proposal this week.” That gives you and Josh time to align.
Bay Area connection — Lane comes from Phillips Brooks in Menlo Park, so he’s likely fluent in the Stanford ed-tech orbit. Use Stanford-context shorthand normally; don’t over-explain.
Christine question — if Lane asks whether Christine is still in the loop, the answer is “she made the connection and we’re carrying it from here.” Don’t volunteer her if he doesn’t ask.

Open question Josh asked Christine on Apr 21 — confirmed budget. May or may not be answered by the time you start the call. If Lane brings up budget unprompted, that’s a good sign.

Filing: meetings/running-notes.md (with Lane’s name + date in heading per the load-bearing format) + interactions table on people/lane-young.md

11:00–11:30 AM PT — Catch-up: Seed Grant (Jacob Ramirez)

With: Jacob Ramirez Zoom: Join (PW: 486157) Context: Rescheduled from Wed May 6. Routine seed grant catch-up. No deep prep needed; pull recent project notes if substantive thread is open.

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

Solo block. Friday review window.

Calendar Reconciliation

Yesterday’s daily file (May 7) Look-Ahead table for Fri:

✅ HOLD for HMT 7-9:30am — confirmed
✅ Lane Young 10am — confirmed
✅ Jacob Ramirez 11am — confirmed
✅ Weekly Personal Review 2pm — confirmed

No discrepancies.

Email Action Items

Today’s inbox

0 new today (last fetch: yesterday).

Carryover / still actionable

Loren Pamo (Stanford CME) — InnovateED 2026 — overdue decline; ~5 days late now
Google AI Studio — Gemini API access action required by June 19 — long lead, FYI
Joe Sherman Airtable adds ×2 — glance next time you open Airtable

Slack Catch-Up

Josh DM (this morning, 9:00am): Josh confirmed he’ll attend DCI June 5 — 50-person Flash Lab. You replied asking about logistics and night-before timing. Awaiting Josh’s reply.
Josh DM (yesterday): Sick day exchanged. 1:1 pushed to Monday afternoon May 11 (proposed by you, accepted in spirit by Josh’s “of course”). Confirm exact time when Josh reschedules.
Cost sheet thread (Tue): Still no Josh feedback. Reasonable given the sick day; expect Mon.
No new @mentions from Joe, Isabelle, Cathy, Christine, or Marily.

Apple Reminders

Reminders MCP still down (chronic). Check Reminders app manually.

Inbox Processing

INBOX.md is empty. Nothing to route.

Cadence Checks

Timecard: Next deadline May 15 (7 days). Tue/Wed will hit the 3-day reminder window.
End-of-month Airtable: Done Apr 27. Next pass end of May.
Strategic Horizon: Still overdue from April.
Quarterly logic model: Mid-Q2; not due (next: end of June).
Meeting prep needed:
- Today 10am — Lane Young — see above. Read people/lane-young.md if you didn’t refresh Tuesday.
- Mon afternoon — Josh 1:1 (rescheduled) — Reach/Robust doc to send before. Also fold in: Flash Lab website refresh (Apr 30 ask), cost sheet feedback, DCI logistics.
- Tue May 12 2pm — Accelerator Studio Strategy Huddle (Cathy, Joe, Josh, Reuben — quarterly cross-project review) — start thinking about what you’d surface.
Travel: None in 4-6 week window. DCI June 5 (Distinguished Careers Institute Flash Lab) is on the horizon — 50 people, Josh now attending, asking about night-before logistics.
Fizzy Maybe: 14+ cards (added 4 Tue: #96-99). Triage on the board.

Next Look-Ahead

Day	Date	Events
Fri	May 8	HOLD for HMT 7-9:30am, Lane Young 10am, Jacob Ramirez 11am, Weekly Personal Review 2pm
Sat-Sun	May 9-10	Mother’s Day Sun
Mon	May 11	Dentist 9am, Josh 1:1 (afternoon, time TBD), 100x AI Roadmap 12pm
Tue	May 12	AS:DE 11am, Accelerator Studio Strategy Huddle 2pm
Wed	May 13	Chiropractor 8am, Studio Services + Tequity Grant (Nigeria DBT) 12pm, NeoLens 12pm (personal), CAP Check-in w/ Jonathan 6pm

Today’s Priorities

Lane Young 10am — scoping/relationship posture, defer pricing to written follow-up. Don’t freelance on numbers without Josh’s nod.
Send Reach/Robust doc to Josh — sometime today or weekend. Monday 1:1 reading window matters.
File Lane Young follow-up notes in running-notes.md + people/lane-young.md interactions table.
Light day otherwise — easing back from a sick day is a feature, not a bug. Use the afternoon for the personal review and protect tomorrow.

Session Notes

(Added throughout the day as significant work sessions occur)

Generated: 2026-05-08 morning, post-sick-day reset.

Verse of the day: Psalm 103:13–14 — “As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.”

Source: daily/2026-05-08.md

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