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How the date tree works
Logs follow an Emacs org-mode date tree: year > month > week (Sunday through Saturday) > day. In org terms: * 2026, ** November 2026, *** Week of Sun Nov 1 to Sat Nov 7, 2026, **** Saturday, Nov 7, 2026. Each page carries a gray line such as :PROPERTIES: :DATE: 2026-11-07 :WEEKDAY: Sat :END: plus tags like :news:research:advocacy:, so the tree can be exported to an .org file later. Start here: 2026
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Privacy rule: When writing daily logs, Cadmus keeps the full version in the private log and publishes only a redacted version in the public log. Anything sensitive, or anything Cadmus judges should stay private (health, finances, legal, third-party details, funders contacted, private plans), is replaced with "Private — see private log" and the full text goes in the private log.
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🔒 Private log (private — Daniel only)
This page holds redacted daily log entries only. Sensitive items appear as "Private — see private log".
🌙 Director's Note — Monday, Nov 9, 2026 (redacted)
- Morning brief: English word of the day wabi-sabi (a philosophy of Japanese origin that values imperfect, impermanent and simple things). French word: truc ("thing", "stuff" or "trick"). Webinar at 11:00 AM PT: "The State of Developer Experience in 2026". Other morning items: Private — see private log.
- Word study: wabi-sabi (English) and truc (French) recorded on the public day page.
- Research and news: two reviews filed on the public day page (Nature on theories of consciousness; a McGill fear-mechanism study in mice) plus quantum-computing news items.
- Website and workspace: the public activity database gained a "Notes" type option; scheduled refreshes of the public activity list and public task table ran with nothing new cleared for public posting; a scheduled workflow re-sorted the recent-articles list.
- Grants, funders, legal, finances and money items: Private — see private log.
- Log notes and Director's Notes: public daily update Monday, Nov 9, 2026; today's private log: Private — see private log.
- Open items carried to tomorrow: decide whether to backfill missing Director's Notes; look into earlier routine failures; footer on remaining public pages (held for go-ahead); other items: Private — see private log.
— Daniel Bryan Boice, Nov 9, 2026
🌙 Director's Note — Sunday, Oct 25, 2026 (redacted)
- Morning brief: word of the day emissary (from Latin emittere, "to send out"). French expression: avoir la gueule de bois ("to have a hangover"). Other morning items: Private — see private log.
- French study: 61 entries added to the Words table (25 French, 36 English).
- French: traducteur / traductrice; attrapé; enregistrer; je traduis; chiffre; traduit; attrape; traduction; traduire; attraper; la chaleur; avoir la gueule de bois; éteindre; éternuer; émissaire; en morceaux / à part; puissant; l'antenne; sérendipité; il a sauté par-dessus la clôture; il éternue; l'écureuil; écouter; attendre; plutôt
- English: serendipity; caught; turn off the lights; fence; he sneezes; raven / crow; heat; to translate; he jumped over the fence; to turn off; put the poop in the trash; key; leash; squirrel; turn on the lights; translation; number; to catch; antenna; to sneeze; even if it means / at the risk of; a trap / catch; savage parade; translator; branch; to have a hangover; to save; duck; translated; emissary; same / alike; seagull; I translate; to listen; to wait; rather
- Done today: created the private full log and this public redacted log, a log hub, Start Here, a Systems Map, topic drill-down pages and a Morning Meeting page. Added the transparency footer to 12 public pages. Created the public repo ap-director-notes. Synced the Jira and GitHub mirrors.
- Research drafts: Research Orientation — The Map of Our Threads; The Bigger Picture — Why We Care; Infinity; Quantum Logic & Quantum Proof Verification; Living Thinkers Roundtable — Session 1 (AI-voiced homage seats).
- Standing focus: the least well-off person on the street is the focus of everything we do.
- Public note: https://github.com/apsoftwaredev/ap-director-notes/commit/b822d61e0f1c49b974c28baeeb4684f2e5603a66