Is the main point of this article, to work on unimportant problems as you can never know how important they may actually become, essentially the same as that of

Is the main point of this article, to work on unimportant problems as you can never know how important they may actually become, essentially the same as that of Steve Jobs in the Stanford commencement speech? E.g. at the time of of taking calligraphy classes, he could not know that this would majorly impact OS font handling? [www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA]