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Daily Prep: Friday, May 15, 2026

Light day — only Weekly Personal Review on the calendar. Timecard is due TODAY by EOD. Real work for today is drafting the GPS retrospective (due mid next week) and filing the Strategic Huddle notes from May 12 before they slip further.

Open Threads from Yesterday

  • 🔴 Timecard deadline TODAY (May 15, EOD). Stanford Axess. Mid-month cycle.
  • GPS retrospective draft — Josh 1:1 yesterday converted the role-evolution conversation into a two-doc deliverable (retrospective + forward plan). Retrospective draft due mid next week (~May 20-21). Josh sends his sacrificial first draft same window. Today is the best uninterrupted block to start.
  • Strategic Huddle (May 12) running-notes NOT FILED. Flagged yesterday, still open. Only the scheduling reference is in meetings/running-notes.md — the actual May 12 conversation (capacity calibration, vibe-coded MVP-as-a-service idea, etc.) hasn’t been written up. ~15 min job.
  • Cyan DeVeaux — Commit to 2 intros or formal pause. Carried from Tuesday huddle commitment. Window has narrowed past “this week.”
  • CRISPRkit handoff — open question for Cathy from the May 12 huddle, still unresolved. Studio Services + CRISPRkit meeting is next Thursday (May 21) — useful checkpoint.
  • Joe’s OOO dates — asked at huddle, no answer yet.
  • Cost sheet — sent to Josh May 6, no feedback. Did NOT come up at yesterday’s 1:1. Mention next week.
  • R/R/R email in Drafts — Josh got the doc via Slack link instead. The May 13 4:59pm Apple Mail draft may now be obsolete. Decide: delete, or repurpose for a future moment.

Today’s Calendar

2:00–3:00 PM PT — Weekly Personal Review

Recurring. No attendees. Use for: prep work below (GPS retro start, huddle filing, week-ahead review).

That’s it. No external meetings, no Stanford meetings. Genuinely open block.

Calendar Reconciliation

Yesterday’s look-ahead said today would have: Weekly Personal Review 2pm + timecard deadline EOD. ✅ Both check out. No discrepancies.

Email Action Items

Inbox is empty so far today (zero emails since yesterday’s prep run).

Carryover from yesterday’s prep (still owed if not handled overnight):

  • Nadia Selim ISTE Live next-steps reply (was waiting on Josh 1:1 — now decided, can move forward)
  • Jaylen Pittman / Roy Pea Learning Through Creation thread
  • Angel Velasquez
  • Loren Pamo InnovateED CFP (ghost — not personal, per memory)
  • Joe Sherman Airtable adds

Slack Catch-Up

Scanned 166 channels, 13 with unreads. Nothing urgent.

  • Jessica Tsang DM (May 13 7:59pm) — casual continuation, already noted yesterday. No reply needed.
  • #cop-remote-workers — pet photo thread, skip.
  • No DMs from Josh, Joe, Isabelle, Cathy, Christine, Marily, or Jessica (ISTE) requiring response.
  • No @mentions flagged.

Reminders

Apple Reminders — no overdue / due-today items.

Old aspirational items in Claude-ToDo (5) still sitting: googleworkspace/cli, personal-life assistant bot, SQLite musings (already actioned via ETL build), Amazon Business check, NASA X.com link. Worth deleting/triaging on the personal laptop this weekend — these have been parked since Mar/Apr.

From Inbox Processing

INBOX.md is empty. Nothing to route.

Cadence Checks

  • 🔴 Timecard: DUE TODAY EOD. Stanford Axess, semi-monthly mid-month deadline. Submit before signing off.
  • End-of-month Airtable: ~2 weeks out. No nudge yet.
  • Strategic Horizon: Still overdue from April. Carryover for several days now. If you have a clean afternoon today after the timecard + GPS-retro start, this is a 30-min job.
  • Travel — DCI June 5: Now ~3 weeks out. If Egencia booking still hasn’t happened, this week is the window.
  • Meeting prep needed (next 3-5 days):
    • Mon May 18, 9am — 100x AI Roadmap Update (Marion Shields, Lloyd Reeb, Pete Chambers). Light pre-read Sunday evening if you have prior roadmap context.
    • Tue May 19, 8:30am — TMT & Reuben (Leopold, tmteaching.co.za). Unknown context — check email thread origin before Monday.
    • Wed May 20, 10am — GSE All-Staff (Dan Schwartz farewell). Postcard contribution due Mon May 18 — submit via form by Sunday night.
  • qmd re-index: Run after daily file generation.

Today’s Priorities (Top 5)

  1. 🔴 Submit timecard via Axess. Mid-month deadline EOD.
  2. Start GPS retrospective draft — R/R/R lens, first-person reflective voice, STAR-style prompts. Use the Weekly Personal Review 2pm block for the first pass. Due ~May 20-21.
  3. File Strategic Huddle (May 12) running-notes to meetings/running-notes.md. Carryover, still open. Heading format: ## Strategic Huddle (May 12, 2026).
  4. Cyan DeVeaux — make the call: send 2 intros today (Kathy Kerns + Tech Interactive contact card are the easiest two) OR draft the formal pause note. Don’t carry this into next week.
  5. GSE postcard for Dan Schwartz — short, due by Mon May 18. 10 minutes if you have a “Dan-ism” or memory ready.

Stretch: Strategic Horizon update (overdue from April). Egencia DCI June 5 booking.

Full task queue: see action-items.md. The new “From May 14 Josh 1:1” subsection has the four GPS-retro items.

This Week + Next Look-Ahead

Day Date Events
Fri May 15 Weekly Personal Review 2pm, timecard deadline EOD
Sat-Sun May 16-17 River Church Sun 10:30am, GSE postcard for Dan by Sun night
Mon May 18 100x AI Roadmap Update 9am, GSE postcard deadline
Tue May 19 Ardent hold 8am, TMT/Leopold 8:30am, AS:DE 11am, Outpouring 10:30am
Wed May 20 Chiropractor 8am, GSE All-Staff 10am (Dan farewell), NeoLens 5pm, CAP check-in 6pm
Thu May 21 Josh 1:1 10am, Studio Services + CRISPRkit 1pm (Moraima, Alex Choi, Cathy, Josh, Joe, Maren)

Session Notes

(Added throughout the day as significant work sessions occur)

Generated: 2026-05-15 morning. Light Friday — the real work today is timecard + GPS retro first pass + Strategic Huddle filing.

Source: daily/2026-05-15.md