Last October, Israelis were rightly horrified to hear that ~400 acres of forest burned down as a direct result of an IDF training exercise carried out in a nature reserve,despite warnings.
Now look at what happened when the IDF insisted on training in a Palestinian village today:
The Khirbet Jenbah medical clinic today. Keep safe and stay healthy everyone. https://t.co/0TamdGrp4u pic.twitter.com/wXGMC5s8RN
— B'Tselem \u05d1\u05e6\u05dc\u05dd \u0628\u062a\u0633\u064a\u0644\u0645 (@btselem) February 3, 2021
"It's one of the ways to enhance [our] governance and our grip on the open space, and to enforce law and order." This was the message the Hebron Hills Regional Council sent to the settlers it represents on the large-scale IDF training exercise taking place in the area today. pic.twitter.com/ju6cnkQzmp
— Breaking the Silence (@BtSIsrael) February 2, 2021
Israel has taken two unusally broad measures this week as part of its ongoing efforts to forcibly transfer Palestinian communities in order to take over their land. On 2 February 2021, Israel launched a large-scale military maneuver set to last two to three days in areas pic.twitter.com/ydgjH9Pxb1
— B'Tselem \u05d1\u05e6\u05dc\u05dd \u0628\u062a\u0633\u064a\u0644\u0645 (@btselem) February 3, 2021
3) 'IDF training' is just an excuse.
— Breaking the Silence (@BtSIsrael) October 19, 2020
Fmr PM Ariel Sharon said it himself: "Additional training areas must be closed in [between] the bottom of the Hebron Hills and the Judean Desert\u2014in light of the phenomenon\u2014the spread of Arab villagers on the mountainside toward the desert. >>>
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Characteristics of a personal moat below:
I'm increasingly interested in the idea of "personal moats" in the context of careers.
— Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) November 22, 2018
Moats should be:
- Hard to learn and hard to do (but perhaps easier for you)
- Skills that are rare and valuable
- Legible
- Compounding over time
- Unique to your own talents & interests https://t.co/bB3k1YcH5b
2/ Like a company moat, you want to build career capital while you sleep.
As Andrew Chen noted:
People talk about \u201cpassive income\u201d a lot but not about \u201cpassive social capital\u201d or \u201cpassive networking\u201d or \u201cpassive knowledge gaining\u201d but that\u2019s what you can architect if you have a thing and it grows over time without intensive constant effort to sustain it
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) November 22, 2018
3/ You don’t want to build a competitive advantage that is fleeting or that will get commoditized
Things that might get commoditized over time (some longer than
Things that look like moats but likely aren\u2019t or may fade:
— Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) November 22, 2018
- Proprietary networks
- Being something other than one of the best at any tournament style-game
- Many "awards"
- Twitter followers or general reach without "respect"
- Anything that depends on information asymmetry https://t.co/abjxesVIh9
4/ Before the arrival of recorded music, what used to be scarce was the actual music itself — required an in-person artist.
After recorded music, the music itself became abundant and what became scarce was curation, distribution, and self space.
5/ Similarly, in careers, what used to be (more) scarce were things like ideas, money, and exclusive relationships.
In the internet economy, what has become scarce are things like specific knowledge, rare & valuable skills, and great reputations.