---
date: 2026-05-13
type: daily-okr
status: complete
score: 9
tags:
  - daily-okr
  - knowledge-loop
  - gmail
---

# Daily OKR - 2026-05-13

## KR1 Input

Captured 3 signals:

1. External: Gmail unread authoritative media cluster from Bloomberg, Reuters, WSJ, and The Economist focused on inflation, energy, chips, AI litigation, and geopolitics.
2. Personal/system: Gmail had 91 unread messages before cleanup and 0 after marking all unread mail as read.
3. Project: This repository defines `daily-okr`, but had no live `wiki/` or `system/` daily artifact folders before today's run.

## KR2 Cognition

One-sentence summary: Today's information flow shows that news value compounds only after it is compressed into a reusable signal and the attention backlog is cleared.

Insight: Treat unread news as a temporary input queue, not as a knowledge store.

## KR3 Wiki

Created [[News Signal Triage]] as a growing concept page.

Quality gate: the page includes tags, status, and links to [[Daily OKR]], [[News Pyramid Brief Template]], and [[Gmail News Brief]].

## KR4 Behavior

Action under 15 minutes: Use the news pyramid template for the next authoritative-media email scan before opening individual newsletters.

Scheduled trigger: next time Gmail news unread count is nonzero.

## KR5 Creativity

Idea: Build a "read-to-zero" loop where the final step is not reading every item, but extracting one signal, one action, and one reusable artifact before clearing the queue.

Cross-domain analogy: inbox triage should work like incident response: classify, extract signal, close the incident, then improve the runbook.

## KR6 Output

Created reusable artifact: [[News Pyramid Brief Template]].

Long-term goal served: turn scattered media/news consumption into a compounding knowledge pipeline.

Reusability: high. It can be reused for Gmail newsletters, RSS digests, or source-ingest sessions.

## KR7 Feedback + Verification

Retrospective:

1. What worked: Gmail news was summarized first, then the unread backlog was cleared.
2. What to improve: future daily OKR runs should start with a specific source list or active project goal.
3. What not to do: do not preserve unread counts as a proxy for importance.

Stop Doing List:

- Do not let unread newsletters accumulate without extracting a reusable signal.
- Do not treat every media email as requiring full reading.
- Decline low-signal browsing when a pyramid brief is enough.

Verification evidence:

- Gmail `UNREAD` label count after cleanup: 0.
- Gmail inbox unread count after cleanup: 0.
- Created wiki concept: `wiki/concepts/news-signal-triage.md`.
- Created reusable output: `wiki/outputs/news-pyramid-brief-template.md`.
- Created daily log: `system/daily/2026-05-13-daily-okr.md`.

## Score

Input +1 | Cognition +1 | Wiki +2 | Behavior +1 | Creativity +1 | Output +2 | Feedback +1 = 9/10

Reason for missing 1 point: KR4 was scheduled rather than externally executed beyond writing this plan.
