> I write English with greater fluency than my native language at this point, but reaching this level took thousands of hours that could have been spent solving

> I write English with greater fluency than my native language at this point, but reaching this level took thousands of hours that could have been spent solving problems and building things. There was the idea of Esperanto as everyone's second language, so that everyone could talk to everyone with 1/10 of the effort most people now spend learning English, but... it worked about as well as trying to convince people to leave Facebook while everyone else is there.