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Daily Prep: Friday, June 12, 2026

Day after the retreat. The calendar is an all-day HOLD with one personal-calendar Zoom under it — a recovery/focus day. The big context shift: you’re out starting next Friday (Jun 19) for two weeks (Mammoth, then ISTE Orlando, back ~Jul 6), so Mon–Thu next week is the last working window before July. Everything with a June deadline — GPS retrospective, timecard(s), Dan email, ISTE registration — now compresses into the next four working days. Today’s highest-leverage move is the Dan email (Josh already approved it).

Open Threads from Tuesday (last daily file)

  • GPS retrospective (due Jun 30) — deadline now effectively Thu Jun 18, since you’re out Jun 19–Jul 6. The window shrank.
  • ISTE presenter registration + session participation agreement (Fizzy #124) — still open since May 28. Hotel is booked (Westgate Lakes, Egencia confirmation Jun 9); registration isn’t.
  • Fix the Jul 1 ISTE calendar event location (still says San Antonio / Central Time; should be Orlando).
  • NEW — Retreat capture: yesterday’s retreat outputs (values audit receipts/taxes, amendment sprint texts, tag triage decisions, handbook 2.0 merge owner + date) aren’t filed anywhere yet. Dump to INBOX while fresh and I’ll route them. The cache-activity artifacts are already filed (reference/menu-of-services.md, capability-map.html).

Today’s Calendar

All day — HOLD (Stanford calendar, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM)

Covers the whole day. One event sits under it:

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM — Zoom with Christopher Crane (personal gmail calendar, you organized)

No match in work notes — treating as personal/non-AS. Zoom: us04web.zoom.us/j/77242133196 (passcode 8RG37S).

Calendar reconciliation: Tuesday’s prep predicted nothing for today beyond the retreat being Thursday (it was). The HOLD + Crane Zoom are new since then — expected, since you set them.

Email Action Items (Wed–today; nothing new received since Wed evening)

Needs Response

  • Cathy Chase (3 comments) + Paige Teamey — interview_data_processed Google Sheet: “jagger?”, “engineering or english?”, and a changed-wording question. Quick sheet replies. (Fizzy #128)
  • Wen (MyBook) — your save-bug fix worked, kids are back in. She asked: “I don’t need to pay Google for Firebase yet, right?” One-line reply. (Fizzy #127)
  • Kellie Charles — asked for the full hour Wed 4–5pm; your calendar hold is only 4:30–5:00. Confirm + extend. (Fizzy #126)

Needs Action

  • Send the Dan email — Josh’s Slack reply (Thu 5:42pm, likely unseen during the retreat): “Nice work! You might also mention how she heard how it helped folks internally at Stanford and was curious to try at her own institution.” Add that line and send. Unblocks Wednesday’s Kellie meeting. (Fizzy #125)
  • Timecard 6/1–6/15 — GSE HR reminder Wed; due Monday Jun 15 via Axess.
  • Southwest seat selection — Jun 28 SAN→MCO flight. (Fizzy #129)
  • Sarahi / Learning Futures — Joe shared the Shaping the Narrative planning doc and noted you have access to the other workshops’ docs; send her the links. (Fizzy #130)

FYI

  • Latvia MOU is moving — Greg: “Latvia is ready to move forward with the MOU for Flash Lab!” Meeting invite sent → Stanford::Latvia, Wed Jun 17, 10am (Greg, Elīna Miķelsone, Josh).
  • DCI thank-yous landed — Brittany Carlson + Katie Connor (ED). Filed as Quoted Impact: mentorship offer for GSE teams, DCI Fellows → Tinkery visit next fall (Becca Taylor planning), alums pointed at the Flash Lab toolkit.
  • ISTE AI Pavilion Orientation — Tue Jun 16, 3:30pm PT (calendar has it).

Slack Catch-Up

  • Josh DM — the only live thread: his Thursday-evening approval of the Dan draft (above). No reply needed beyond sending the email; a quick “done, sent” closes the loop.
  • Joe DM — quiet (nothing in 4 days).
  • Channel unreads are stale backlog (months old) — nothing actionable, no @mentions.

Reminders

Cadence Nudges

  • Timecard due Mon Jun 15 — and note: the Jun 16–30 timecard deadline (Jun 30) lands while you’re at ISTE/OOO. Submit that one early, by Thu Jun 18.
  • GPS retrospective — working window is now Mon–Thu. Thu’s 1:1 with Josh is the natural checkpoint.
  • Logic model quarterly review — June is end of Q2; Thu’s 1:1 is also the slot for this.
  • Monthly Airtable + strategic horizon — end-of-June beats land while you’re out. Either knock out early next week or punt deliberately to early July.
  • Meeting prep suggested: /meeting-prep Stanford::Latvia (external partners, MOU program plan, Wed 10am) and /meeting-prep Kellie (unit walkthrough + draft research questions, Wed 4:30pm).
  • Fizzy Maybe: 9 cards (3 existing + 6 new from today’s triage) — quick board pass when a window opens.

Personal lists (Claude / Claude-ToDo)

Unchanged aspirational items (Google Workspace CLI, SQLite exec-assistant, DeepMind skills, echinacea, etc.) — nothing due, nothing new to move.

From Inbox Processing

Two Spellar captures from Jun 9 routed and INBOX cleared:

  • Kellie Charles meeting → meetings/running-notes.md (proper heading) + new profile people/kellie-charles.md. Reuben-relevant actions extracted (Dan email, Jun 17 confirm); the long AI-generated action list is mostly Kellie’s homework and stayed in the Spellar file.
  • Technical troubleshooting meeting → noise (Zoom/lighting/VPN); left in meetings/spellar/, nothing routed.

Hygiene flag: four undated headings sit in running-notes.md (## DLS Meeting, ## SAL All-Hands, ## Design-build-iterate Meeting, ## [Josh O3](...)) — the ETL parser drops these, so they’re invisible on the dashboard. Worth dating them when you know which meetings they were.

Today’s Priorities (Top 5)

  1. Revise + send the Dan email (add Josh’s line, send) — unblocks Wednesday’s Kellie meeting. (dan-sal-research-email)
  2. Dump retreat outputs into INBOX while memory is fresh — values audit, amendments, tag decisions, who owns the handbook 2.0 merge.
  3. Quick replies batch: Wen (Firebase), Cathy/Paige sheet comments, Kellie hour confirmation + hold extension.
  4. Start the GPS retrospective — four working days left before OOO.
  5. Admin sweep before EOD: timecard (due Mon), ISTE presenter registration (#124), SW seat, fix the Jul 1 calendar location.

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

Next Week (last working week before OOO Jun 19 – ~Jul 6)

Day What
Mon 6/15 Timecard due. Open day otherwise — GPS retro block.
Tue 6/16 AS:DE 11am; ISTE AI Pavilion Orientation 3:30pm PT.
Wed 6/17 Stanford::Latvia 10am (MOU program plan); Kellie 4:30pm (extend to 4–5pm?).
Thu 6/18 Josh 1:1 10am — last before OOO: GPS retro, logic model quarterly, handbook 2.0 ratification, coverage while out. Submit Jun 16–30 timecard.
Fri 6/19 OOO begins — Mammoth (Jun 19–21), then ISTE Orlando Jun 28–Jul 3.

Session Notes

(Added through the day.)

Generated: 2026-06-12 morning. Recovery day after the retreat; one personal Zoom under an all-day HOLD. Email/Slack triage surfaced the Dan email as the unblocker for Wednesday. OOO countdown: four working days.

Source: daily/2026-06-12.md