Honora Whitaker-Mead
hwmead.bsky.social
Honora Whitaker-Mead
@hwmead.bsky.social
Retired CPA, suburban Housewife, serial tech nerd.
WEEK 6
Who wants to learn Civics?
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Week 2 Metrics Prep Baseline. Google that.
October 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Week 38
FYE 9/ 30/25 is two weeks away.
PLAN TO PIVOT
Zip Code to satellite ( County to ICC)
State Memo of Understanding
State- Fed Shared services ( indirect cost) agreement.

Begin with the end in mind( Covey)
Tie your work to the Constitution of 1787 as amended.

Define Requirements
Define Terms
September 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Week 28
County interns:
Casino and Cathedral model
July 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
For goodness sake. show bout we quick throwing the 'girls ' under the bus for speaking up while you guys were.. ? Girls always dig you boys out when you don't ask for directions. Poor planning on your part should not 'Constitute' an emergency on hers. She owns the interstate state IGA.That works.
July 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Here's the AI divide in the supply chain between government shared services and not. who pays for the lights and change management implementation? Utility ( breakeven with rates) or not?
June 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
You heard Mr Trump, 2 weeks.
June 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
As any 'paperwork engineer' can attest. We are trained at providing 'trust' in the form of an agile systems that responds to the needs of users.

When trust is breached. That system can break down. It is time to go from the 'it is' to the 'to be' because 'it is,isn't'
June 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I loved the colors in this one. Reminds me of listening to Ryan Adams..
June 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Time to 'squirrel away' with a whiteboard in the old days( Ford 8S process was a good template for a problem definition and your engineering compliance requirements traceability matrix (AS 9103?)
June 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Week 23

40 years off high tech manufacturing.

Interns I'm too old for this
Explain it like I'm 5-Global supply chain and AI.

Palantir is not interested in watching your backyard bbq. there's already a security camera and a minute mart video.

still cameras can't find a specific fire line at night
June 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Here's an example of a process checklist I used for many years. Now you can made it your own. It's all 'plug and play.' These worksheets I copied from memory for those who tried to update what I did when I wasn't there..This way we can improve the worksheet before I format it for the next interns.
May 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This is the drawing I made about public private partnerships and contract terms and conditions. Figured this was becoming part of the Sba.gov budget to Public/ Private infrastructure ( who pays for the lights discussion. Again this is free to use as you need interns. Figured we could use a few form
May 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Here's my initial search on the Texas 5 th.
May 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
May 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Who approves Mr Trump's travel voucher ?
May 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
What is the performance loop here? EO's count as draft pros for Executive Co- Equal branch of government. 'Gifts'? FAR 15

With Chevron Doctrine violated when you eliminated EPA. That is a violation of the inter-agency agreement you had to vet technical facts for 'power of he purse' review.
May 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Don't know who is doing the new state franchise Intergovernmental Agreement( IGA).I assumed we'd end up at fixing the Project 2025 mess- I made another grid. Key is to track it centrally ( Lucky Palmer Interstate electric trains and trucking- talk to your unions.
May 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If your leaders are stuck- human too. Ask them these types of questions to narrow down there 'must haves' for the week. you're welcome.
May 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Week 20 Interns

This is week one of 'plan to pivot' .New plan needed.

how 'formal' ( who uses )your plan and if they know what they are doing?

These are 'key X words' to ask people what they are working on -
and are they working the right things ( leadership here).Start here. Chippy agrees.
May 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In kindPolitical contribution. We left off here before the pandemic with 'in kind.' contributions. This is why my red flag warning of indulgences after Citizens United.
May 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Norm had me at 'emoluments' in 2016 I believe.Now look at the 'plane of unintended consequences.'
May 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Ask the new Pope.
He is the ultimate Catholic SME.
He has a degree in math and physics from Vlla Nova- more important to me is hat he was a parish priest in Peru, probably knew my brother.He ran a casino down there ( casino and cathedral)- more cathedral ( Warren Buffet).start there interns.
May 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
iYKYK
May 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM