On the desk · task 16
Share Zaal's daily points challenge, every day for a week
daily from 22 Sept
Share Zaal's daily points challenge, every day for a week. Call, 21 Sept: one challenge a day to get people making media; today's ended 4 PM ET, the next ends 5 PM ET on 22 Sept. IMan pushes each one out
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- A design has been shared with you! (thread
1a0bfa7bdf7e0dd0) — Canva notification, "ZABAL Daily Designs" shared by Zaal Panthaki. Informational, no action detected.
Mon 21 Sept
- Daily quest agreed, P2E Inferno to Wave Station to Artizen. Buy at least $1 of an artist on Wave Station (Base, USDC) once every 24 hours. Verified by the Basescan transaction hash: new, yours, not replayed, minimum met. Reward 5 cents per $1 (Zaal: "lowest amount possible is always my starting point"), streak multiplier up to 3x, 10 spots a day for a two-week campaign, 20 if week one fills every day. Wait list with email and Telegram reminders for the rest. Danny builds it now; Zaal tries it, films it, shares with his team. Campaign starts after 3 Oct unless it is all small async pieces.
- Artizen mechanics, from Zaal: fund drives every Thursday, 1x this week, up to 4x once a season; endowment share pays out at season end, season ends Jan or Feb, payout Mar or Apr; the impact report is the gate. He will test buying a project reward to see how it differs from an artifact.
- Call, 22:36 CAT, 5 min, Discord coworking, recorded on Craig. Transcribed; mixed audio sent to Zaal's DM at 22:58 CAT. /live embeds a YouTube or Twitch feed, not decided. The Wallace tent has been up all summer. New: IMan shares Zaal's daily points challenge for a week, next one ends 5 PM ET on 22 Sept. Facebook: a ZAOstock page under the ZAO Festivals account, every organiser as admin, Zaal sets it up. Flyer good to go; videos posted to the main page.
Sun 20 Sept
- Every task opens its own page. Each row of On the desk now and Needs Zaal is a whole-card link to
/tasks/N/or/needs/N/: the row, its state, the project, the draft it links rendered in full, the PRs it points to, and its history pulled from every daily update and the timeline. Answered rows keep a page, marked answered.
Sat 19 Sept
- They say the vault now points ZOE at this issue. Her Saturday file (
docs/daily/2026-09-20-tasks.md) still carries none of the desk asks and still says "call Steve Peer, radio silence". Said so.
Fri 18 Sept
- Zaal's bot does not read this desk. His Friday file, ZAOOS
docs/daily/2026-09-19-tasks.md, is built from his vault and his own git log. None of the desk asks are on it, and tomorrow's Star 97.7 slot is not on his calendar. It does carry: deal memos to the five verbal confirms day 12 overdue, sponsor email day 21 overdue, "call Steve Peer, radio silence", weekly recap 4:30 PM ET, WaveWarZ Africa Battle Week 22 to 26 Sept. Told him on #8, no questions asked, one call covers it.
On the timeline
- 21 Sept: Inbound: nothing new on the desk. Found in ZAO + IMAN that ZOE could not show Zaal the questions IMan relayed through her, so check-ins now tag her and carry the questions (IMan's rule). Checked in 13:05 CAT. Live check: Zaal landed both Stripe links and the Buy Button on 20 Sept evening, checkout is live on /tickets and /donate, Needs Zaal 10 closed; 8 of 8 acts on the site, photos 6 of 8; main
7a655b1, 44 commits #250 to #281; /live still has no player, no stream pin. The 20 Sept call with Danny transcribed from all three tracks and put on the desk: Danny in the ZAO Artizen fund, his stream Wed 7 Oct, a Wave Station daily quest designed, Zaal wants IMan and Danny in a group, and a ZAO Artizen team site after 3 Oct. Afternoon: desk #9 done and closed, the Gmail triage routine live from IMan's account, first run passed; it surfaced the Ellsworth Chamber poster ask, now task 14. Desk site: seven deploy tries, real cause found (Vercel blocks deploys whose commit author is not in the one-seat hobby team), fixed with a git-free deploy script; site current at 15:49 CAT. Call with Zaal 15:30 CAT. DMs read: Stripe $20 test agreed, Discord time set. Cowork bot swept, #1282 run, 0 open PRs. Evening: Chamber poster made; master doc paste refreshed against the live doc (six wrong lines); desk link and DNS ask sent to Zaal. Zaal answered six questions on #11 and asked about Unlock on #10 (answered, not mid-way); second call 22:36 CAT recorded, transcribed, audio sent to him. New: daily points challenge for a week, a ZAOstock Facebook page. - 20 Sept: Inbound check. Five more relays from Zaal's seat on #8 (19 Sept afternoon) folded in: zpoidh yes (found already merged as #107 on 4 Sept, row 9 closed), master doc edit access (row 11 closed), Gemini key "ask IMan" (row 7 rewritten), "do it now" on the footage and DJ repo, and a new Facebook page-admin ask (task 13). Live check: 4 of 8 acts published, main
50e5e9b, #229 and #242 to #249 merged overnight. Zaal ruled marketing goes to the ZAO Festivals group. ZAOstock Daily v34 with a Sunday block covering the week. Afternoon: the desk site got a page per task (whole-card links, drafts inline, history from every update), a premium restyle, and two fixes; found that iman-desk.vercel.app times out on IMan's ISP because two Vercel addresses are dropped in Lusaka, not a repo problem. IMan on the video ad final cut. Reviewed the Day 263 preview for Zaal: voice fits, links resolve, tickets and /live need fixing first. Call with Zaal and Danny recorded, one of three tracks transcribed. Evening: Zaal posted the Day 263 newsletter preview in ZAO Festivals and asked IMan what he thinks; its stream link goes to /live, which has no player. Asked Zaal through ZOE whether to build one now, Needs Zaal 15. Zaal also opened desk #9, the Gmail triage routine, for IMan to create from his own account.