Recently, I was struggling with my Tele Unlimited package, and honestly it bothered me more than I expected.😭😁
It might sound like a small problem, but when you are running even a small startup, something as simple as internet access can affect almost everything communicating with your team, responding to customers, managing social media, accessing platforms, attending meetings, and simply getting work done.
And that small frustration made me think about something much bigger how interconnected this world really is.
Imagine if one of Google's major services, like Gmail, suddenly stopped working today. Millions of businesses around the world would immediately feel the impact. Emails wouldn't be delivered, authentication systems could fail, customer communication could be disrupted, invoices and documents could become inaccessible, and countless business processes could come to a halt.
Now bring that same idea closer to home.
Imagine if telecom services across Ethiopia stopped working just for hours/days. Thousands of businesses would struggle to operate. Digital payments could be disrupted. Customers couldn't reach businesses. Teams couldn't communicate. Online services would slow down or stop. The economic impact could run into billions of birr.
And that's what amazes me.
We live in a world where everything is interconnected to something else.
Electricity, Telecom networks, Internet infrastructure, Cloud servers, Banking systems, Payment platforms, Data centers, GPS, Undersea cables, APIs, Email.
Most of these things are almost invisible when they work. We don't think about them because we've become accustomed to their existence.
But when one of them stops working, we suddenly realize how much we depended on it.
So I think we need to Learn valuing things even when they don't seem important.
Because something that looks small, ordinary, or insignificant from our perspective might actually be supporting something much bigger.
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