Sorry. Re-read the "book's" "chapter" again. He's not making any qualifications as you are. He's saying, "Hire the best writer," which is utter namby-pamby rubb

Sorry. Re-read the "book's" "chapter" again. He's not making any qualifications as you are. He's saying, "Hire the best writer," which is utter namby-pamby rubbish. Between two otherwise identical candidates, sure, hire the best writer. If you define "good writer" so that it correlates perfectly (by whatever means) with intelligence and problem-solving, then maybe hire the best writer. But if I have to choose between Bill Shakespeare and an MIT grad for a programming position, guess who I'm hiring, despite 37signals' crappy, abbreviated, unsupported advice?