Review week - 42 staged, 1 sent, three submit tasks past their dateReview

Review week. The pen worked: seven documents returned 9-22, thirteen decision records, sweep green, device drained from 353 to about 100, seven new packages. Submissions still read one since 8-31, and the three Submit tasks from the 9-20 paper passed their 9-24 date unmarked.

Stage counts on 10-05 morning: 14 drafted, 28 packaged, 1 sent, 10 closed. Forty-two finished packages. The decision step caught up on 9-17 and 9-22; the produce step runs nightly; the send step is a human action with no system behind it, which the 9-23 audit (batch 1) proposes to fix with a SENT checkbox on each package paper.

Three kinds of package sit in the 42. Ones with a clock (Coursera 9-30, Groundwork 10-06, Twilio 10-31, Siemens 11-27). Ones that need your own words before they can go (GiveDirectly's two essays, PolicyLink and New America's no-AI letters, Democracy Alliance's conviction paragraph, Huge's two award sentences). And ones that are simply waiting. Each kind wants a different sentence from you: a date, a writing block, or a close.

Last week's D3 asked for three names and got three stars: Change.org, Groundwork, RCVRC, tasks dated 9-24. This week's D3 asks what to do with those tasks now the date has passed. Whatever you mark is fine; a blank is the one answer that keeps the same question coming back.

Worked example

Count the stages yourself, then list the open Submit tasks.

awk -F'|' 'NR>3 && NF>5 {print $5}' /Users/tom/Claude/JobHunt/tracker.md \
  | grep -oE '\*\*[a-z-]+\*\*' | sort | uniq -c

grep -n 'Submit' /tmp/pdb-weekly-review/things.json | head

• The first command reads the stage column of every tracker row and counts it. It should match the numbers above, plus or minus the weekend's builds.
• The Things snapshot from Sunday 18:00 shows the three Submit tasks still open.

Gotchas

• Re-verifying that a posting is live is not progress; every package above was verified on the day it was built.
• A closed package is not a failure. Ten are closed already; the tracker keeps the work.
• Five briefings (9-23 to 9-27) are unanswered on the tablet. New GO ink adds to the 42; that is fine if you want it, and worth knowing.