Brainwash - አምሮ አጥባት

Bottleneck - ቡትሌ አንገት

I forgot where I came across this quote but I've been thinking about it:

Is it really my culture, or a narrative designed by the controller

When it gets hard to make money doing it, they start making money telling you how to do it.

The've already squeezed it dry. 

A good way to reset.

The boring middle is the difference maker. It's a no mans land. You start out fast, others get ahead of you a lot are behind you and you're alone in the middle without a pack. 

It's easier to slowdown and join the pack in the back but harder to keep pushing and join the pack in the front. As long as you keep your pace and have some extra left in the tank to finish strong you will join the front pack.

1. The lack of attention to detail - buildings, work, half-assing everything
2. Customer service - No one says hi welcome to x what can I get you started (min litazez) though it's getting better, workers aren't taught, owner also opened the shop out of boredom le medeberya, stems probably from the shitty wage.
   
3. Over-hiring in simple cafe's - when a couple people would suffice...due to the cheap labor costs, employees overcrowd the biz, thus creating idle workers on the side chatting away not attending to customers.
   
4. Not saying "I don't know" - engrained in us to say i know that for everything under the sun, lack of specializers, It's easy (qelal new) when in reality he knows jack shit. We need to Learn to say i don't know but let me find out
   
5. Over-labeling/ Over-branding - from the shops in the mall, kiosks in the neighborhood to the watermarked photos online, and 30 second intro videos on ever online music. (hope entertainment, even mezmur)
   
6. Thinking of each other መተሳሰብ/መጠበቅ - shortcut mentality - instead of waiting a minute drivers rather block intersections causing whole other chaos. double parking. triple parking. (especially near taxi loading/drop-off areas) city design failure.