Best part I took from reading The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford:

Unplanned work is what prevents you from doing what matters most. Like matter and antimatter, in the presence of unplanned work, all planned work ignites with incandescent fury, incinerating everything around it.

Unlike the other categories of work, unplanned work is recovery work, which almost always takes you away from your goals. That’s why it’s so important to know where your unplanned work is coming from.

In most organizations, there are very few resources—whether it’s men, machines, or materials—that dictate the output of the entire system. We call this the constraint, or bottleneck. Whatever term you use, until you create a trusted system to manage the flow of work to the constraint, that constraint is constantly wasted. This means that the constraint is likely being drastically underutilized.

'You’re not delivering the full capacity available to the business,' and as a result, you’re likely not addressing technical debt. This causes an increase in unplanned work over time, further derailing productivity.

There are five focusing steps, which Goldratt describes in The Goal:

1. Identify the constraint: Find the resource (machine, person, material, etc.) that is limiting the system’s output.

2. Exploit the constraint: Make the best possible use of the constraint without any major investments—maximize its efficiency.

3. Subordinate everything to the constraint: Adjust all other processes to support and align with the needs of the constraint, ensuring it's not overloaded.

4. Elevate the constraint: If necessary, take steps to increase the capacity of the constraint, such as adding resources or making improvements.

5. Repeat the process: After addressing the current constraint, find the next one and repeat the cycle to continuously improve the system. Avoid inertia, meaning don’t let improvements stop

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You should name a variable using the same care with which you
name a first-born child. 😂

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The 5S philosophy [organization, tidiness, cleaning, standardization, discipline]

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Robert C. Martin

• Seiri, or organization (think “sort” in English). Knowing where things are—using approaches such as suitable naming—is crucial. You think naming identifiers isn’t important? Read on in the following chapters.

• Seiton, or tidiness (think “systematize” in English). There is an old American saying: A place for everything, and everything in its place. A piece of code should be where you expect to find it—and, if not, you should re-factor to get it there.

• Seiso, or cleaning (think “shine” in English): Keep the workplace free of hanging wires, grease, scraps, and waste. What do the authors here say about littering your code with comments and commented-out code lines that capture history or wishes for
the future? Get rid of them.

• Seiketsu, or standardization: The group agrees about how to keep the workplace clean. Do you think this book says anything about having a consistent coding style and set of practices within the group? Where do those standards come from? Read on.

• Shutsuke, or discipline (self-discipline). This means having the discipline to follow the practices and to frequently reflect on one’s work and be willing to change

♻️ I can share the PDF format of the book if you want it, im in first few pages

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Zero to One by Peter Thiel

Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a 2014 book by the American entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel co-written with Blake Masters.

Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He started PayPal in 1998, led it as CEO

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Ethiopian Birr Among Weakest Currencies in Sub-Saharan Africa

According to a World Bank report, the Ethiopian birr has had the worst performance among sub-Saharan African currencies as of August 2024, alongside the Nigerian naira and South Sudanese pound.

In contrast, currencies like the Kenyan shilling have shown signs of recovery, improving foreign currency purchasing power by up to 21%. Despite this, many African economies still face foreign exchange challenges, particularly Nigeria and other East African countries, due to shortages and exchange rate pressures.

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በ2 አመት ውስጥ 1.5 ሚሊዮን ዜጎችን ሚሊየነር እናድርጋለን ተባለ ... 😂

.... በቀጣይ ሁለት ዓመታት ውስጥ ብቻ አንድ ነጥብ አምስት ሚሊዮን ዜጎችን በተግባርና በተጨባጭ ወደ ሚሊየነርነት የሚቀይር በልምድ የተረጋገጠ «የሚኒየነሮች መንገድ» የተሰኘ ፕሮጀክት በመንደፍ ..... 😁

dont be skeptical it might be true 😁, what if its Ponzi scheme, so sure we might still have the chance

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read this out 😁

Kaczynski argued that modern people are depressed because all the world’s hard problems have already been solved. What’s left to do is either easy or impossible, and pursuing those tasks is deeply unsatisfying.

What you can do, even a child can do; what you can’t do, even Einstein couldn’t have done. So Kaczynski’s idea was to destroy existing institutions, get rid of all technology, and let people start over and work on hard problems anew. Kaczynski’s methods were crazy, but his loss of faith in the technological frontier is all around us.

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you know max Planck, a german theoretical physicist right? he said

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

He is saying that scientific progress doesn’t happen by simply persuading people who oppose new ideas. Instead, older generations, often resistant to change, eventually pass away. Meanwhile, younger generations grow up learning and accepting these new ideas, which gradually become the norm.

"change is the only constant"

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Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Me texting a girl: "You can only reply 'Hi' or 'Bye.' If I guess right, reply 'Hi.' Otherwise, reply 'Bye.' My guess is... you'll reply 'Bye.'"

The girl: "Hi. Bye. Block."

Me: Didn't even get a chance to flex my genius... 😔

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ለሰላም ቡና ግዙላት 😂

https://ye-buna.com/

Next ... የጨብሲ

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The lean startup - by Eric Ries

From leaps of faith, tested it with a minimum viable product, used innovation accounting and actionable metrics to evaluate the results, and made the decision to pivot or persevere.. to steering and growth engine. Management to market all you need to know

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don’t spend years building features that your customers don’t actually want, deploying code that doesn’t work, or fixing something that isn’t actually the problem.

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Russian robotics innovations will be shown in Ethiopia
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Join us from October 23-25, 2024, at the Russian House in Addis Ababa for the "Days of Robotics and Innovative Educational Technologies," organized by Southwest State University under Rossotrudnichestvo.
This event is open to students, teachers, scientists, and anyone interested in robotics. Highlights include lectures, hands-on workshops, gaming tournaments, and demonstrations of robotics technology.

Free registration: https://www.swsu-online.ru/roboticsethiopia/en
Free entrance, lunch, and drinks provided.

Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the future of technology!

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I just received an invitation from ReachForChallenge for a half-day workshop at Skylight Hotel. The invite was sent to 50 email addresses, including mine. While checking the list, I noticed that some people used their own domain names, likely tied to their projects.

Curious, I extracted the domains from the emails. There were 16 unique domains, with 31 using Gmail. Here are 13 of the working domains I found:

ahaethiopia.com
ashewa.com
astemari.net
empire.et
et5amclub.org
eutopiasstudents.net
jethrolmi.com
lebawi.com
myuct.ac.za
premiercollege.edu.et
rpcafrica.com
thetalentfirm.com
wwwedtech.com

Some others like gebetaacademy, kihloot, and ethiopiaedtech were included but not verified.

It’s fascinating to see what projects people are working on, which ones have gained traction, and where potential funding might be involved.

If anyone could summarize the key ideas behind these projects, their unique aspects, and opportunities for growth, it would be amazing! 👀💡

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The Phoenix Project is a must-read novel on DevOps. It shows how marketing and sales , development, IT operations, and security all need to work together to drive success.

There’s a ton of valuable content in there like CI/CD, Lean methods, and more but I’ll leave you to discover that. Honestly, I got a bit lazy writing all the details, Just give it a try, you won’t regret it.

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