[mcny]

> That's funny. I was the opposite. When I was younger, I would just say "lets default to other people's solution to similar problems and move on" but as time went by, I've become more "let's define our problems well and find surgical solutions by others". It's a slight difference but makes a huge difference in productivity.

I thought the same way except I was even more insane. I thought lets just teach everyone English and we won't have to do any internationalization/localization.

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But then you lose the advantage of being the first to localize for a given market!

But seriously, in a lot of cases, translating and localizing is actually the easy part of internationalizing a business.

[mcny]

> But seriously, in a lot of cases, translating and localizing is actually the easy part of internationalizing a business.

In my defence, I was not a very travelled child. I didn't even know about all the different kinds of power socket standards around the world.