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Daily Prep: Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Second day back. Three back-to-back work meetings late morning/early afternoon — and two of them (Latvia MOU, AI Learning Day planning) are things you’ve already been circling. Mail index has recovered (seeing today’s mail fine). Main threads: expenses (ISTE report owed + the $799 Dev Day follow-up), and the parked monthly-cadence queue.

Open Threads from Yesterday

  • $799 Dev Day reimbursement looks outstanding (from this morning’s dig): the DeepLearning.AI Dev Day conference registration (~$701 STAP + ~$98 SAL) has no payment confirmation — only the $94.79 out-of-pocket piece was paid (Jun 24). Needs a nudge to Moraima. This is the “AI conference fee” your Claude-ToDo reminder is about.
  • ISTE June expense report owed to Moraima — she asked Jun 24; receipts not yet staged. Flight was SAN↔MCO on your personal card (reimbursable to you). receipts/pending/ is empty.
  • Parked re-entry queue: June monthly Airtable, Q2 logic-model quarterly, strategic-horizon refresh (overdue since April). GPS forward goals — confirm submit posture w/ Josh Thu.

Calendar Reconciliation

  • End-of-month wrap-up: canceled. (Yesterday’s prep expected it ~10:30am today — it’s been called off.) The 10:00am slot is the Latvia MOU instead.
  • New since yesterday: the 10:00am Latvia MOU in-person meeting (Greg’s invite) wasn’t in yesterday’s look-ahead.
  • AS:DE (11am) and AI Learning Day planning (1pm) — both as predicted. ✓

Today’s Calendar

10:00–10:30 AM — Latvia MOU (in-person) 🏛️

Where: Raikes Building, 2nd Floor, 507 Lasuen Mall (on campus) With: Karin Forssell, Gregory Wilson II, Josh Weiss Context: Greg invited you + Josh to think through the [DRAFT] MOU — Latvia Ministry of Science & Education ↔ SAL. This is the partnership you filed an action item on yesterday (delivery + train-the-trainer w/ 6-wk QA, one-time cost, no rev-share → Fizzy #143). The Google Doc has live comments from Josh, Karin, and Isabelle. Prep: Bring your pricing/structure position (one-time fee, no revenue share, 6-week QA window). This is where it gets shaped — you’re the technical/delivery voice in the room.

11:00–11:45 AM — AS:DE Meeting (Zoom)

With: Josh, Joe Sherman (likely still OOO — Ireland through ~Jul 13), Reuben Context: Weekly team meeting. May be Josh + you only (Joe OOO). ⚠️ You have a personal hold at 11:30 that overlaps the last 15 min — plan to wrap or step out cleanly.

1:00–1:45 PM — AI Learning Day Planning (Zoom)

With: Marlene Castro (organizer), Gregory Wilson II, Josh, Reuben Context: Planning the Accelerator team’s AI Learning Day (July 28 or 29, TBC). You co-lead the three Flash Lab segments with Josh. Prep doc ready: prep/2026-07-07-ai-learning-day-planning.md. Bring: the schedule flags — the Build Sprint is only 40 min (labeled 100), Showcase is 30 min (labeled 100); who drives Spark Gallery (your quick-builds catalog is the deepest source); minor timing gaps.

(Personal, for your awareness: 8:00am dental follow-up; 11:30 personal hold; 6:30pm CAP.)

Email Action Items

Mail index recovered — seeing today’s mail. Only newsletters in today (Stanford Report, TLDR AI). Nothing actionable.

Still open from the last 3 weeks (surfaced earlier): reply to Belinda (CRISPRkit web-dev rec), Cathy (send Marisol the May ‘25 comic dataset), and the Moraima expense items.

Reminders

Cadence Nudges

  • June monthly Airtable — overdue; if the wrap-up conversation happens today, get ahead of it (/monthly-airtable). Fold in the ISTE Flash Lab story.
  • Q2 logic-model quarterly review — June closed Q2; raise in Thu 1:1 with Josh.
  • Strategic Horizon — overdue since April; knock out this week.
  • Fizzy Maybe = 12 cards — triage on the board.
  • Timecard: 7/1–15 due ~Jul 15 (8 days out — not urgent yet).

Personal (Apple Reminders — no routing to work files)

  • Claude-ToDo: “check AI-conference-fee reimbursement → pay off PayPal” ← ties to the $799 follow-up above. Plus exec-assistant-system ideas (Workspace CLI, SQLite, personal-context repo) + Amazon Business charge check — all personal.
  • Claude: aviation tax Q for Chris, echinacea, reading links (personal machine).

From Inbox Processing

Nothing to process — INBOX held only personal (non-work) capture, which I’ve removed from the work repo. No items routed to action-items.md.

Today’s Priorities (Top 5)

  1. 10am Latvia MOU — go in with your pricing/delivery position (one-time cost, no rev-share, 6-wk QA).
  2. 1pm AI Learning Day planning — bring the schedule flags (Build Sprint length is the big one).
  3. Expenses — (a) nudge Moraima on the outstanding $799 Dev Day registration; (b) stage ISTE receipts + draft the June expense email.
  4. June monthly Airtable — enter ISTE Flash Lab story + June deliveries.
  5. Quick replies when a gap opens: Belinda (CRISPRkit web-dev rec) + Cathy (Marisol comic dataset).

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

Session Notes

  • AM: Ran daily-prep. Mail index recovered (was stale/frozen at Jun 23 yesterday). Traced the “$799 April reimbursement” → it’s the Dev Day registration, appears unpaid (only $94.79 out-of-pocket landed Jun 24) — flagged for a Moraima nudge. Discovered the ISTE flight was SAN↔MCO on personal card. Built the AI Learning Day planning prep doc.
  • Expenses cleared (big one): Assembled three June expense reports (DCI $117.93, AS Retreat $30.00, ISTE $1,078.59 = $1,226.52 reimbursable), combined receipts into one PDF per trip (qpdf), and sent one consolidated email to Moraima that also nudged the outstanding ~$799 Dev Day registration. Packets archived in receipts/sent/2026-07-07-june-trips/. Open loop: Moraima’s reply on the $799.

Generated: 2026-07-07 (Tuesday). </content> </invoke>

Source: daily/2026-07-07.md