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Daily Prep: Monday, July 6, 2026

First day back from ISTELive OOO. Re-entry day — no work meetings on the calendar. The job today is triage (inbox, Slack, the parked queue) and getting oriented for tomorrow’s monthly-cadence stack. Ease in.

Open Threads from Yesterday

(No daily file since Jun 18 — OOO. Context comes from the week-of-2026-07-05 digest re-entry queue.)

  • Parked re-entry queue (all owed early July): GPS forward goals (Jun 30 deadline landed during OOO), June monthly Airtable, Q2 logic-model quarterly, strategic-horizon refresh, Latvia MOU.
  • Capture ISTE impact while fresh — the Wed Jul 1 Flash Lab attendee quote is now in quoted-impact.md; still needs the June Airtable “Stories” entry (do at/before Tue wrap-up).

Today’s Calendar

No Stanford work meetings today. Only calendar items are personal (100x Roadmap check-in, 5:00pm PT — off the work track). Open day for re-entry work.

Team status this week (from Josh/Joe group DM, Jun 29)

  • Joe is OOO — traveling in Ireland ~Jun 29 through ~Jul 13. Out for tomorrow’s meetings.
  • Josh moved the monthly check-in back one week → that’s tomorrow’s “End-of-month wrap-up” (Tue Jul 7, 10:30am). Expect it to be Josh + Reuben only (Joe still away). The regular AS:DE (11am) and AI Learning Day planning (1pm) also fall tomorrow.

Email Action Items

⚠️ Mail index is stale — frozen at Jun 23 (hasn’t re-indexed since before OOO). I can’t see anything that arrived during/after ISTE. Check the inbox manually for anything from the conference week and holiday weekend that needs a reply.

Nothing actionable surfaced from what is indexed (all newsletters + the ISTE presenter-info email, already handled).

Slack Catch-Up (past 7 days)

Quiet. Nothing needing a response from key people.

  • Josh — only news/resource shares in #edai and #genai-learn-news-resources. No asks.
  • Gregory Wilson — posts in #stanford-genai-events (FYI, not directed).
  • Everything else is channel noise (#cop-remote-workers pet photos, #random food posts).
  • Group DM (Josh/Joe/Reuben): the Jun 29 thread above (AS:DE cancel + Joe→Ireland) — already read/reacted.

From Inbox Processing

Cleared the inbox — two Spellar blocks from Jun 18 (Josh 1:1 + SofIA tech), never processed before OOO. Meeting notes already live in meetings/spellar/. Routed the still-live action items; the ISTE-prep items (register as presenter, take vacation, three-part framework, front-loading, recruit facilitators, arrival time) are superseded — ISTE was delivered Jul 1. Grant-finalist reviews for Jessica were cleared pre-OOO.

New action items filed (+ Fizzy cards):

  • MOU draft — Greg/Karen partnership (delivery + TTT w/ 6wk QA, one-time cost, no rev-share) → Fizzy #143 strategy
  • Workshop facilitation scaffolding (briefing/role-clarity doc + start-of-workshop assessment) → Fizzy #144 flash lab
  • SofIA simulation + testing follow-ups (prompt fix, DB storage, adversarial suite, multi-model eval) → Fizzy #145 explore

Reminders

Cadence Nudges

  • June monthly Airtable is overdue and needed for tomorrow’s wrap-up — consider running /monthly-airtable today so Tuesday’s “what did we do / what stories” conversation has the data. Fold in the ISTE Flash Lab story.
  • Q2 logic-model quarterly review — Q2 closed June; good to raise with Josh in Thu 1:1.
  • Strategic Horizon refresh — overdue since April; knock out this week.
  • Fizzy Maybe = 16 cards — triage on the board. Several are already done (#137 ISTE prep, #136 Mural OKR vote, #131 Jessica Tsang reviews) and can be cleared.
  • Timecard: 6/16–30 submitted before OOO. Next (7/1–15) due ~Jul 15 — not yet.

Personal (Apple Reminders — no due dates)

  • Claude-ToDo: exec-assistant system ideas (Google Workspace CLI, SQLite, personal-context repo), check Amazon Business charge, expenses — confirm AI-conference-fee reimbursement, then pay off PayPal.
  • Claude: echinacea, aviation tax Q for Chris, a few reading links (personal machine).

Today’s Priorities (Top 5)

  1. Manual inbox sweep — mail index is stale; eyeball anything from ISTE week / the weekend that needs a reply (partners, ISTE follow-ups from Nadia/Jessica/Joseph South).
  2. June monthly Airtable (/monthly-airtable) — get ahead of tomorrow’s wrap-up; enter the ISTE Flash Lab story + June deliveries (SMCOE, DCI).
  3. GPS forward goals — finalize; confirm submit posture with Josh Thu (drafted 80eacc95 / b4acd418).
  4. Triage Fizzy Maybe (16 cards) — close out the done ISTE/pre-OOO ones, sort the rest.
  5. Ease back in. It’s a re-entry Monday with no meetings — don’t force a full sprint.

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

Session Notes

(Added throughout the day as significant work sessions occur)

  • AM: Ran daily-prep + weekly-digest. Filed the ISTE Flash Lab attendee testimonial to quoted-impact.md. Caught (via group DM) that Joe is in Ireland until ~Jul 13 and tomorrow’s wrap-up is the moved monthly check-in — likely Josh + Reuben only. Flagged stale mail index (frozen Jun 23).

Generated: 2026-07-06 (Monday), re-entry from ISTELive OOO.

Source: daily/2026-07-06.md