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Daily Prep: Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Back from the Memorial Day long weekend. The morning is the dense block: ISTE↔SAL 10am (the long-awaited group convening) → end-of-month wrap-up at 10:30 / AS:DE 11am, which Reuben has flagged needs end-of-month prep + Airtable monthly entries done. Airtable is the priority for the morning.

Open Threads from Yesterday

(Carryover — open items, not the full action queue.)

  • End-of-month Airtable + Strategic Horizon refresh — both end-of-month cadence, due this week. Reuben wants Airtable done for the 10:30 wrap-up.
  • Strategic Huddle (May 12) running-notes — still unfiled (now 14 days).
  • Cyan DeVeaux — commit (Kerns + Tech Interactive intros) or formally pause.
  • Egencia DCI June 5 booking — window closing.
  • Wen Ma (MyBook) reply still owed (“MyBook stuck,” May 22).

Today’s Calendar

10:00–10:30 AM PT — ISTE ↔ Stanford Accelerator for Learning 🔴

With: Isabelle Hau (organizer), Josh Weiss, Jessica Rami, Joseph South & Jessica Garner (ISTE), Reuben Zoom: stanford.zoom.us/j/96839851482 (PW: 224454) Context: First full-group ISTE↔SAL convening since the February partnership thread. ISTE Live 2026 is locked — session is Wed Jul 1, 9–10:30am, Reuben + Josh co-presenting; submission sent. Go in knowing where things stand and listen for the next-steps ask. Joseph South & Jessica Garner have been 90 days cooling — this re-touch auto-resolves that.

10:30 / 11:00 AM PT — End-of-Month Wrap-Up + AS:DE 🔴

With: Josh Weiss, Joe Sherman Zoom: stanford.zoom.us/j/92599859829 Context: Monthly wrap-up conversation (handbook format: what did we do / trends / stories / what to change). Reuben needs end-of-month prep + Airtable monthly entries done before this. Joe sent the “Monthly Reminder” May 21. See end-of-month prep work below.

(Evening personal items — CAP, River — omitted per standing rule.)

Email Action Items

Needs Response

  • From Wen (MyBook): “MyBook stuck” (May 22) — reply still owed.
  • From Christine Bywater: “Re: Availability for SMCOE PD Thursday June 4 & Friday June 5” — availability ask. Note: June 5 collides with DCI Flash Lab.
  • From Micaela Bonilla (SofIA): “student / teacher / admin flows are ready to try” (May 23) — review the flows + respond.

Needs Action

  • From Isabelle Hau: “Re: Time for DCI Session on June 5” — DCI logistics; ties to Egencia booking.
  • From Gregory Wilson: “AI Flash Lab in Latvia” (May 25) — read; possible new Flash Lab interest / story candidate.
  • Joe Sherman (Airtable): Added Reuben to “Connect to chat about train the trainer” (Lead) + “Follow-up meeting” (Secondary) in Tequity — relevant to today’s Airtable pass.

FYI / Skip

  • Newsletters (TLDR AI, DeepLearning, Hechinger, SSIR, Stanford Report), Cursor payment notices, GSE community events.

Slack Catch-Up

Scanned 7-day unreads (126 channels). No actionable DMs or @mentions. Unreads are stale channel chatter (#cop-remote-workers pet photos from April, #general/#random GSE notices, old #gsesupport threads). Nothing needs a response. A few FYI items: Joe’s Learning Impact Exchange recap (#general), Dora Demszky paid video-labeling gig, Lemann Center Brazil PhD grants (deadline passed May 22).

Reminders

Apple Reminders — no overdue / due-today items.

Claude-ToDo (5 aspirational/system items, all carried — triage on personal laptop): Google Workspace CLI, personal exec-assistant setup, SQLite for assistant, Amazon Business charge check, NASA X post. Claude list (6 personal: Ascendant tax Q, echinacea, reading items, SofIA vibe-coding review) — personal, not work-actionable.

From Inbox Processing

INBOX.md is empty. Nothing to route.

Today’s Priorities (Top 5)

  1. 🔴 End-of-month Airtable monthly entries — done before the 10:30 wrap-up. Reuben’s explicit ask. (/monthly-airtable)
  2. 🔴 10am ISTE↔SAL — know ISTE Live 2026 status; capture next-steps from the group.
  3. 🔴 10:30/11 End-of-month wrap-up + AS:DE — activity review, trends, stories, what to change.
  4. Strategic Horizon refresh — pair with the Airtable pass (both end-of-month cadence); surface at AS:DE.
  5. Egencia DCI June 5 booking — window closing; tie to Isabelle’s DCI thread.

Full task queue: see action-items.md (not duplicated here)

Cadence Checks

  • Timecard: ✅ Submitted May 15. Next deadline May 31 (~5 days) — submit via Axess this week.
  • End-of-month Airtable: 🔴 Today — running now for the 10:30 wrap-up.
  • Strategic Horizon: Overdue from April; refresh this week.
  • Travel — DCI June 5: ~10 days out. Book Egencia now.

Session Notes

(Added through the day.)

Generated: 2026-05-26 morning. Short week back from Memorial Day. Morning is front-loaded: ISTE convening + end-of-month wrap-up. Airtable monthly pass is the priority deliverable before 10:30.

Source: daily/2026-05-26.md