The Youth is hungry for opportunity to advance in life
The Youth is highly optimistic and have faith in their prime minister
Shifting away from a tribal centric identity to a nation identity is the key challenge for the country. Tribal warfare was observed in Matema region.
On infrastructure
One belt one road initiative has thus far rebuilt 85% of all major highways
significant levels of Chinese operated construction observed in Addis Ababa where Chinese occupy the management layer while the locals occupy the manual layer.
Significant levels of new housing construction in villages by locals. Projects are facilitated by ease of material transport due to improved road conditions.
At the moment of writing, Chinese built daily train is in operation from Addis Ababa to Djibouti. Chinese management is in process of doing knowledge transfer to local with the intention of handing eventual management.
On nature and agriculture
mixed of highland and grassland terrain
lowlands are utilized for the cultivation of wheat, corn and coffee
highlands are utilized for the cultivation of potato and barley
On technology
Ethiopia’s own version of Uber was launched earlier this year.
Country-wide established 3G networks has been observed
Majority of people were seen using Android mobile phones like Samsung and Huawei.
Tenco is a locally manufactured Android phone ran by Chinese management. Typical phone sells for USD50.
On foreign relations with China
China is the largest trading partner where food is the main export.
China’s one belt one road initiative in Ethiopia aims to increase supplies of raw materials available to the middle class rich in China by building up critical infrastructure like roads and manufacturing facilities to increase overall throughput volume from this agriculturally fertile region.
The approach is to utilize Chinese capital, Chinese management expertise and operations technique gained from the rebuilding of their economy, local raw materials and local human labor.
Where maintenance is required knowledge transfer occurs. This serves to help conserve Chinese human capital as they further their initiative across the region.
The observed build up of educated youth will likely help facilitate the necessary knowledge to ensure infrastructure gets maintained beyond the time period of the initiative.
The ability to fully master yourself is predicated upon the ability to cut through the narratives thrown off by your limbic brain in situations of stress to tap directly into your sensations and be at peace with them.
The ability to master the environment is predicated upon the ability to physically execute upon a series of actions which in the process yields a corresponding set of sensations and results.
The ability to master other sapiens and mammals is predicated upon the ability to bend them to your will, namely the disciplined application of the carrot and the stick. In Sapiens, it is necessary to utilize narratives to manage their limbic brain.
Any property in nature brought to its extreme form counter-intuitively appears on the surface to be its exact opposite. High levels of Self-mastery on occasions gets perceived as Sociopathy by the casual observer.
Forecoming social experiment: To practice exploiting the unsuspecting street tout without yielding a single dollar.
References
Steve Jobs, by Walter Isacson
The Elon Musk blog series, by Urban Tim
Titan: the life of a John D Rockefeller, by Chernow Ron
Anabasis, Xenophon
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
The everything store: Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon by Stone Brad
The Facebook effect: The inside story of the company by Kirkpatrick David
Machina by Sebastian Marshal
Be slightly evil, by Vankatesh G Rao
Sapiens: a brief history of humankind by Yuval Noah Harrari
Why the west rules for now by Morris Ian
Analysis of Arabic Street tout aggressive sales technique by Gary Teh
Observations in Sudan by Gary Teh
Summary of learnings into the subject of Mundfulness by Gary Teh
Orange purchased from road side vendor in the middle of the Sudan desert
Society
Sharia law is used as the foundational legal framework within the country.
Public venues for prayer are prevalent
Majority of males observed to engage in worship 5 times a day
Touting is non-existent except at tourist venues as well as bus stations. Prices are fixed.
Hospitality of locals is commendable. On multiple occasions they would pay for tea and food if they happen to engage in any form of conversation out of curiosity.
Minimal signs of homelessness observed. Streets in Khartoum appear empty past 8pm in the evening.
Despite general lack of infrastructure, a strong sense of community was observed amongst the population. Daily affairs were was observed to be conducted in an orderly and peaceful manner.
Technology level
Level of technology level in government agency observed is low.
Mobile phones are prevalent. Android owns majority of market share. Samsung and Huawei mobile phone users were observed to be prevalent.
Facebook and WatsApp are the dominant internet communications medium. YouTube is in prevalent use
Internet connectivity is low and generally unstable hovering around 300++kpbs in hotels.
The following US based technology solution is not accessible. Use of proxy is necessary.
AWS
Gmail
Stripe
Bugsnag
Perception of foreign relations
US and western nations perceived still to be harboring colonial masters mentality attempting to meddle in affairs of nation with aim of gaining unfair advantage.
The Chinese government is perceived as friendly and fair, genuinely interested in helping the country develop.
Nature and history
Water melon was observed to grow wild in the sub-Saharan dessert. Much agricultural potential could be expected if nile is successfully harvested for irrigation purposes.
Donkeys, camels and cows observed to roam wild in the sun-Saharan dessert.
Majority of the population is not equipped with the necessary faculty to make decision about the running of the country. Let the superior man assume this responsibility be imbued with the power to pass laws and regulations. The market is to be subordinated to the nation.
The study of history
History should read with the use of critical lens. The student of history should approach it with the desire to understand cause and effects. He needs to apply a clear frame and extract from it relevant pieces that fits the frame to further his understanding of how the world works.
The management of the crowd
Majority of the population will not bother themselves with the use of their critical faculties when analyzing arguments made by policy makers ( Logos). Rather, they choose instead to simply really on them emotions which only takes into account very limited set of signals (Pathos).
Therefore, the primary objective of propaganda is not to be factually correct but to drive the population to action.
The structure of the message needs to be simple. The larger the audience catered for the simpler the message need to be. The use of icons and dramatic colors is extremely beneficial.
When refining your message, start with a small set of audience and work from there to gradually larger ones. This keeps running cost low and allows a more controlled cabilbration process.
On democracy
This is a long drawn out intensive dubious process which is subjected to high levels of resource wastage. A centrally controlled organization will be more effective at addressing deep rooted issues. Elected leaders tends towards the dumbest common denominator.
On the economy
It should not drive national policies but should be driven by it. In the former, private interest will prevail over public needs. Private interest tends to be dominated by a class that focus purely on making money with money via interest instead of the common person that exchanges actual physical hard work with money.
The goal of schools is to socialize the next generation to the nations core values and principles. This training requires a strong physique. Physical training should take majority of the education.
