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Daily Prep: Thursday, May 28, 2026

End-of-month Thursday. Two work meetings: Josh 1:1 at 10am and Crystal Springs Internal Debrief at 3:30pm (Preetha hosting, with Christine, Sarah Levine, Tammy Moriarty). Preetha’s Crystal Springs report dropped overnight — read it before 3:30. Two surfacing items from yesterday’s signal noise: Moraima needs Dev Day receipts this week (DM May 26, missed by yesterday’s prep), and Jaylen + Roy Pea sent warm replies on the offline AI playground — Jaylen wants concrete next steps (Pi 5 mirror, Firebase logging, UI tweaks).

Open Threads from Yesterday (May 27)

  • ✅ CRISPRkit “Ambassador” → “Building a Train-the-Trainer Project” guide shipped yesterday — reference/building-a-train-the-trainer-project.md, linked from projects/crisprkit.md (commit e81c1f6, May 27 4:11pm).
  • End-of-month Airtable tail — Friday May 29 is end-of-month. Ramirez + CRISPRkit May touchpoints → seed-grantee tracking. Today and tomorrow only.
  • June 11 Sound Union room booking — owner still unresolved (me vs. Joe vs. admin).
  • Strategic Horizon refresh — overdue from April. Last-week-of-month window closes Friday.
  • Cyan DeVeaux — commit-or-pause, 5+ weeks unresolved.
  • Wen (MyBook) reply still owed; SofIA security doc + Micaela flows review (May 23).
  • Joe’s media items — confirm still his.

Calendar Reconciliation

Yesterday’s look-ahead matches today’s calendar: Josh 1:1 + Crystal Springs debrief. No drift. The 100x HOLD that ran yesterday rolled over correctly — today’s Sage Stage at 9am is on the personal calendar (Chris Crane, omitted from work view).

Today’s Calendar

10:00 AM PT — Josh ↔ Reuben 1:1 (45m)

With: Josh Weiss Zoom: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/94194351840 (pw 588228) Context: Last 1:1 was May 14 — the GPS reframe (Reach / Robustness / Resonance, retrospective + forward plan). Two action items from that meeting were: (1) draft GPS-style retrospective narrative in first-person reflective voice, (2) compile GPS/STAR prompts for R/R/R sections. Both are still open in action-items.md (#80eacc95, #b4acd418). Christina Fajardo’s GPS slides found (May 15) — prompts are pullable. Likely topics today:

  • GPS retrospective draft progress (or “still in flight, here’s where I’m stuck”)
  • ISTE session next steps (Nadia hasn’t followed up since May 4 send — open thread)
  • End-of-month check (Airtable tail, Macro records done)
  • DCI Flash Lab Jun 5 + SMCOE BaB Jun 4 logistics (Christine’s “PD Run Through” zoom dropped overnight)
  • CRISPRkit TTT guide shipped yesterday — share the playbook + how it connects to repeatable Studio offerings (Fizzy #114).
  • Latvia Flash Lab — Josh and Gregory both “Accepted” yesterday. New thread to surface. Prep: No formal pre-read. Worth glancing at the open R/R/R action items so the status update is crisp.

3:30 PM PT — Internal Team Debrief, Crystal Springs AI Literacy Project (30m)

With: Preetha Menon (organizer), Sarah Levine, Tammy Wu Moriarty, Christine Bywater Zoom: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/94965076662 (pw 261965) Context: Preetha just shared the completed AI Literacy report (sent to Crystal Springs, “received well”) — link in her May 27 email. The project was the CSET 4-session series “Creating resources for teaching with AI”; Crystal Springs was the 120-person on-campus PD where departments developed AI-literacy syllabus statements. Reuben’s standing question from previous notes: “why was the Accelerator asked to join Crystal Springs if they’re not using our stuff?” — this debrief is the right place to land that. Prep:

  • Read Preetha’s report before the call (link in her May 27 email).
  • Skim Christine’s “SMCOE AI Literacy PD Run Through” zoom invite — same constellation of people, Jun 4 SMCOE Build-a-Bot is the next reps. Worth raising as a thread connector.

Email Action Items

Needs Response (within a few days)

  • Jaylen Pittman + Roy Pea — “Offline AI playground for the after-school program” (May 27/28). Jaylen is in. Wants help with: (a) Pi 5 local model mirror ($130 hardware build), (b) Firebase data collection for the research study, (c) a student-facing “track changes” / audit log for tweaking model params, (d) front-end edits — descriptor text, help bubbles, definitional support. Roy chimed in warmly (“This looks fantastic”). Reply: offer a 30-min Zoom to scope the Pi 5 + Firebase pieces; the UI tweaks can ship faster.
  • Christine Bywater — “SMCOE AI Literacy PD Run Through” (May 28 overnight). Zoom invite, no time/date in body — likely a prep call for Jun 4 SMCOE Build-a-Bot. Confirm when.

FYI (mentioned, no reply needed)

  • Preetha — Crystal Springs report shared. Read before 3:30 debrief.
  • Josh — “Agreement” (to Joseph + Jessica, ISTE). Reuben CC’d implicitly via context. Read-only.
  • Gregory + Josh — “Accepted: AI Flash Lab in Latvia.” New thread emerging. Surface in Josh 1:1.

Slack Catch-Up

Scanned 12 channels with unreads. One real item:

  • 🔴 Moraima DiMare DM (May 26, 12:36 PM PT): “Hi Reuben, I need to get the April 28-29 trip expensed this week. Please send: Receipts for hotel, food, rideshares. I have the flight already.” — DeepLearning.AI Dev Day trip (SF, Pier 48, Apr 28-29). Flight was submitted Apr 16; the rest is owed. This week = by Friday. Yesterday’s prep missed this DM — surface it loud.

Everything else: GSE #general broadcasts (Lemann CFP, SQL workshop, Hechinger, Demszky lab hiring), #random kitchen / lost-and-found chatter, Joe’s Learning Impact Exchange invite (already in the wild). No DMs from Josh/Joe/Isabelle/active collaborators.

Reminders

Claude list: 6 personal aspirational reads (Sofia vibe-coding, OpenAI Prompt Caching 201, DeepMind skills, arxiv paper, echinacea, Ascendant Aviation tax question). All personal — triage on personal laptop.

Claude-ToDo: 5 carryover system/aspirational items (Google Workspace CLI, exec-assistant-for-personal-life setup, SQLite for exec assistant, Amazon Business audit, NASA x post). No new mobile captures. None work-actionable today.

From Inbox Processing

INBOX.md is empty. Nothing to route.

Today’s Priorities (Top 5)

  1. 🔴 Send Moraima the Dev Day receipts (hotel, food, rideshares for Apr 28-29). She needs them this week. Pull from Egencia / email / phone wallet.
  2. Read Preetha’s Crystal Springs report before the 3:30 debrief.
  3. Josh 1:1 at 10am — status update on R/R/R retrospective + GPS prompts; surface Latvia + Nadia/ISTE silence + CRISPRkit TTT framing.
  4. Reply to Jaylen + Roy Pea on the offline AI playground — offer a 30-min Zoom to scope Pi 5 mirror + Firebase logging; commit to a fast turnaround on the UI tweaks.
  5. End-of-month Airtable tail — Ramirez + CRISPRkit May touchpoints → seed-grantee tracking. Last day is tomorrow.

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

Cadence Checks

  • ✅ Timecard: Submitted.
  • 🟡 End-of-month: tomorrow is the last day of May. Macro records done (8). Tail: Ramirez + CRISPRkit → seed-grantee tracking. Today + tomorrow only.
  • 🟡 Strategic Horizon: Overdue from April; last-week-of-month closes Friday.
  • Workshops Google Sheet manual sync — still owed (Fizzy #119). The Jun 4 SMCOE BaB + Jun 5 DCI Flash Lab rows haven’t been pushed up to the Sheet shared with Josh.
  • Travel: DCI Jun 4-5 booked. No new travel windows in the next 4-6 weeks beyond ISTE prep (Jul 1).
  • Fizzy Maybe: triage on the board when convenient.

Session Notes

(Added through the day.)

Generated: 2026-05-28 morning. Two meetings (Josh 1:1, Crystal Springs debrief). Big surface item: Moraima receipts (overdue). Big opportunity: Jaylen + Roy Pea green-lit the offline playground build.

Source: daily/2026-05-28.md