Reality is a cold, harsh mistress. I'm not a native English speaker. If I were to restrict my knowledge of programming, startups, business etc. to what is avail

Reality is a cold, harsh mistress. I'm not a native English speaker. If I were to restrict my knowledge of programming, startups, business etc. to what is available in my native language, I would severely handicap myself compared to those who can read English. If I were to restrict my software business to only people who use my native language, I would only have 40 millions of potential customers instead of several hundred millions. At best, it's a Quixotic effort. At worst, it'll actually do harm to people it supposedly tries to serve by allowing them to stay in the comfort zone because that comfort zone is really, really small compared to richness of knowledge available in English, especially in topics like software engineering or startups. It's the law of unintended consequences. Sure, learning to read English at a speed equal to reading my native language was a long and arduous process, but I only had to do it once. I reap benefits of that investment every day. When I think about it, it was the best investment of my life.