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Daily Prep: Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Open work day — no Stanford meetings on the calendar. A make-progress day, not a react-to-meetings day. The Latvia agreement moved fast overnight (Greg drafted the Professional Services doc, Karin OK’d sending it up to Isabelle + Olivia), so the highest-leverage thing today is getting your edits into that doc before it goes to Olivia to sign. Otherwise: two clean email replies (Kellie, Belinda) and chipping at the parked cadence queue (June Airtable, Strategic Horizon) ahead of tomorrow’s Josh 1:1.

Open Threads from Yesterday

  • Moraima / expenses loop is closed on your end — you sent the consolidated June expense email (DCI + Retreat + ISTE = $1,226.52) and nudged the outstanding ~$799 Dev Day registration. Josh pinged you Slack about receipts Jul 7; you confirmed done. Open loop is just Moraima’s reply on the $799.
  • Parked cadence queue: June monthly Airtable (overdue), Q2 logic-model quarterly (raise at Thu 1:1), Strategic-Horizon refresh (overdue since April).
  • Still-open replies: Cathy (send Marisol the May ‘25 comic dataset), Belinda (CRISPRkit web-dev rec).

Today’s Calendar

No Stanford work meetings. Only personal items:

  • 8:00 AM PT — Chiropractor (Hemet Family Chiropractic)
  • 6:00 PM PT — CAP check-in with Jonathan (weekly)

(No AS:DE today — that’s Tuesdays. Josh 1:1 is tomorrow, Thu Jul 9.)

Email Action Items

Needs Response

  • Kellie Charles (FlashLab / PCOL3888): She asked for the Google file links to run the workshops + print the cards — that’s the concrete ask. Also sent thoughtful human-card suggestions: design phase → a “critical friend”/devil’s-advocate/Shark-Tank boost to surface flaws early; advocate phase → an audience-alignment “message box” (Compass scicomm). She’s running FlashLab wk3 (late Aug), splitting the class digital-cards vs physical-cards as an A/B. → Reply with links + a quick “love these, folding into the boosts refresh.”
  • Belinda Yeung (CRISPRkit website): wants a recommendation for someone to hire to build a professional, long-term CRISPRkit website. Carried from yesterday. → Reply with a web-dev rec (or tEquity-team contact).
  • Cathy — send Marisol the May ‘25 AI Comic Studio dataset. Still open.

Needs Action

  • Latvia “Agreement for Professional Services” — Greg shared the draft Google Doc (Jul 7) and invited edits; Karin OK’d sending it up to Isabelle + Olivia, who does the final review + signs. Get your edits in before it goes to Olivia. Anchor the delivery terms from the Jul 7 in-person: one-time cost / no rev-share, timeboxed Aug–Oct handoff QA + coaching, 2 lab visits (Aug + Oct) w/ expenses, conference invite in a year, bi-directional survey feedback. [Doc]
  • FlashLab slide deck (SAL AI Day, July 2026) — Josh shared via Google Slides (Jul 7). Review/comment as part of AI Learning Day build-out.

(Everything else in the inbox today is newsletters — TLDR AI, Stanford Report, Hechinger, ISTE Connect digests, DeepLearning.AI. Nothing actionable.)

Slack Catch-Up (past 7 days)

Handled — nothing open.

  • Josh DM (Jul 7): checked in on “all these moving pieces” + asked you to prioritize Moraima’s travel receipts. You replied and got the receipts done. Thread closed.
  • Group DM (Josh/Joe/Reuben): nothing since Jun 29 (Joe → Ireland ~through Jul 13; monthly check-in moved).
  • Unread channels are all noise (GSE staff-connect, gse-data, 3d-printing, UIT AI-tools launch). No asks, no @mentions.

From Inbox Processing

Processed and cleared three blocks:

  • Latvia agreement notes (Jul 7 in-person) → routed to meetings/running-notes.md. Headline: MOU is the wrong instrument — needs a Service Agreement (Olivia sets up); template from Christine Bywater (CSET); open question of who signs; timeboxed Aug–Oct handoff; conference invite in a year.
  • Photosphere camera (Josh asked you to look at what’s needed) → new action item.
  • AI Learning Day planning (Jul 7 Spellar) → 10 build tasks consolidated into one action item (ai-learning-day-buildout-jul8); Spellar notes already filed under meetings/spellar/.

New action items filed (+ Fizzy cards): Latvia doc review (#146 strategy), photosphere check (#147 explore), AI Learning Day build-out (#148 flash lab), Kellie reply (#149 flash lab).

Reminders

Cadence Nudges

  • June monthly Airtable — still overdue. Good open-day task: run /monthly-airtable, fold in the ISTE Flash Lab story + June deliveries.
  • Strategic Horizon — overdue since April. Knock out this week.
  • Q2 logic-model quarterly review — raise in tomorrow’s Thu Josh 1:1.
  • Timecard 7/1–15 — due ~Jul 15 (7 days out; not urgent yet).
  • Fizzy Maybe = 3 cards — nearly clear; quick triage on the board.

Personal (Apple Reminders — not routed to work files)

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

Today’s Priorities (Top 5)

  1. Latvia agreement — get your edits into the Professional Services Google Doc before it goes to Olivia to sign.
  2. Reply to Kellie — send the FlashLab workshop/print file links + ack her human-card ideas.
  3. Reply to Belinda — CRISPRkit web-dev recommendation.
  4. June monthly Airtable — clear the overdue entry (ISTE + June deliveries) while the day’s open.
  5. Prep tomorrow’s Josh 1:1 — Q2 logic-model review + GPS forward goals posture.

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. No work meetings today. Latvia moved to a Service Agreement (not MOU) — Greg’s draft is with the group before Olivia signs; routed the Jul 7 in-person notes + filed a doc-review action item. Processed AI Learning Day Spellar block into one build-out item. Slack + expenses loops from yesterday confirmed closed.

Generated: 2026-07-08 (Wednesday).

Source: daily/2026-07-08.md