Janice Riley

Innovative, dynamic, and intentional entrepreneur.
Founder of Ekklesia Arising.
Texan since 2019.

[Janice Riley @janleytx]

Enjoy fine wine and novels this Friday in Boerne.

#thingstodo #boernetx #hillcountryauthors #hillcountryevents

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

"ICE agents are operating in multiple states, So why are Shootings and widespread unrest occurring only in the state where a $9 billion fraud was uncovered?"

🎯🔥👇🏼

[Janice Riley @janleytx]

@LMPD Kero wants to apply.

[LMPD @LMPD]

Shoutout to our wrecker drivers in VIU for removing abandoned cars like they’re hunting rare Pokémon. Gotta tow ‘em all. #LMPDSnowThoughts

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Eat real food. Brought to you by farmers. ⬇️

[Robbie Harvey @therobbieharvey]

FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY: Parts of Texas are under a Flash Flood EMERGENCY.

This is along the Guadalupe River from Hunt through Kerrville and Center Point to parts of Kendall County, north of Boerne.

[Winded Walruz @WINDEDWALRUZ]

🚨Life-Threatening Flood
📍 Kerrville, Texas
📍Guadalupe River

The Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas, is experiencing catastrophic flooding this morning, reaching the second-highest level on record and surpassing the devastating 1987 flood.

The River surged to a reported 34 feet in just a few hours after 7-10 inches of rain, nearing record levels. Homes and businesses have been submerged, cars swept away, and rescuers saved people from rooftops in Hunt.

[Janice Riley @janleytx]

@EmbassySuites Thank you. Will do when I get to my office.

[Janice Riley @janleytx]

They should hand out earplugs to every guest when they check in. I work on construction with my husband and typically would be wearing hearing protection around this decibel level.
@HiltonHotels @EmbassySuites

[Janice Riley @janleytx]

Who thought this kind of renovation OK for a hotel/convention center when hosting a conference? I was in my suite trying to talk on a business call and couldn't even hear the person on the other end.
Embassy Suites San Marcos TX. @HiltonHotels @EmbassySuites

[Janice Riley @janleytx]

@johnkonrad Giggling at this in the ENT office with my mother-in-law for her hearing test. Yes, out loud.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🎯

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

🚨FL Gov Ron DeSantis Announces “Second Amendment Summer Tax Holiday”

From Memorial Day to July 4th, you can get ammunition and firearms tax free!!! 🔥

This is the way!!

[Senator Ted Cruz @SenTedCruz]

Abolish the IRS.

[Brian Harrison @brianeharrison]

The Texas House has not referred a single bill to lower property taxes…

but we just suspended all the rules to pass a House Resolution resolution to honor…. BEYONCÉ.

Can’t.

Make.

This.

Up.

I objected and voted NO!

[Andrea S. James @AndreaSJames]

Gently, softly, calmly, let’s talk about what’s happening in DC right now.

Friends, have you ever been through a ZBB process? If not, let me give you my take. So, in a corporation where expenses are out of control, you have to put the entire company through a zero based budgeting process. It is one of the most painful things that people in a company experience.

You basically have to justify every. single. expense. And you also cut a bunch, and then only add back after you’ve gone through a proper ZBB cycle.

The US government is going through a ZBB right now. And that is necessary because spending is out of control. The complexity is so vast that I expect it will take AI to decipher.

You cannot tell me that a government that accidentally wires hundreds of millions of dollars to the Taliban has its finances in order. That signals an underlying disaster. That signals bad stewardship of resources.

In fact, it is a disaster. Over the last 20 fiscal years, the US government has made ~$2.7 trillion in "improper payments," according to the US Government Accountability Office. Trillion! With a T!

That financial management disaster was not caused by @elonmusk. And there is no painless way to clean it up.

Elon is doing what any executive would do walking into a giant mess. You ZBB and then build back.

So, I don’t believe that America is going to be on the wrong side of global right and wrong, as some are saying. I don’t believe that America is going to be permanently isolationist. I do believe that unwatched finances will get out of control in any human system, and that the GAO has been trying to ring this bell for years, and that scaled complexity requires scaled financial management.

Because the US has the largest budget in the world, it will now go through the single most complex ZBB ever undertaken in the history of the world.

Some states do ZBB, but it's never been done at the federal level. President Jimmy Carter tried, but the bureaucratic systems were too complex, and President Ronald Reagan abandoned the attempt.

So, if there is one person in the world chosen to lead this Grand Canyon of projects, we would hope for the president to choose one of the best capital allocators on the planet. Better if that human is also one who can leverage AI and technical talent to manage the massive complexity.

Anyone who has lived through a ZBB at the corporate level will tell you that it’s hell and everyone hates it. This is why I feel really bad for federal workers -- I have a lot of empathy for civil servants and people doing a great job every day for the United States. No doubt, the uncertainty is trying and stressful for many. It's an unfortunate situation.

So, that's my take. I don't want to speak beyond what I know and can observe from the other side of the country. I've worked both in the private sector and the public sector -- the cultures are different. And an Elon-Musk-style culture is going to be the most hard core of them all. No doubt, it's jarring. It's gonna be a lot.

But what I also know is that every time I have ever doubted Elon, I ended up being the one who was wrong.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Audit or abolish? Or both…

[Janice Riley @janleytx]

@catturd2 Door #2, of course

[Janice Riley @janleytx]

@elonmusk I was telling a friend recently about my assessment of the government's STEM education recruitment and how it needed to be streamlined. He told me I needed to come work for you.