[eralps]

> the more of a noob you are locally, the less of a noob you are globally.

> if you stay in your home country, you'll feel less of a noob

> And yet you'll know more if you move.

I experienced this in the US when I was scheduling interviews for an internship with a US company. I had waited for the interviewer for half an hour and shoot them an email asking for rescheduling after they did not show up.

Turns out I forgot the timezone difference. In all my (quarter-century)life, I had never needed to check timezone in the same country. Felt like the biggest noob. I know more in general now but, even for a simple thing like scheduling an interview, I became "locally" noob.

[mcguire]

That one has caught me out, too, and I've spent most of my life frequently crossing time zone boundaries (Central/Mountain and lately Central/Eastern).