I found many of PG's essays insightful and inspiring, but I think this particular idea is rather questionable. I want to hire people that are interested in solv

I found many of PG's essays insightful and inspiring, but I think this particular idea is rather questionable. I want to hire people that are interested in solving the problem. Are these really the same people obsessing about programming languages? Does obsessing about programming languages really correlate with being an obsessive problem solver in general? I'm not so sure about that. My observation is that people can be deeply interested in one thing while being completely indifferent towards other things. Obsessing about everything is a mental illness. Maybe it depends on the problem space. If the technology part of the problem is simple and the main issue is how to increase productivity then PG's argument makes sense. But if you have a difficult problem to solve that isn't developer productivity, then I think it doesn't make sense to hire people motivated by the choice of programming language.