I will admit, we do see 37Signals blog posts on here just about every other day on every topic imaginable. Sometimes I wonder if they do more writing than working on their own products.<p>So it's no surprise that they'd write a post about liking writers. After all, it's just human nature to like someone that closely reflects one's self.
I got a BSc, read half of On Lisp and then wrote a screenplay which got accepted to be read by a Hollywood agent. A good screenwriter is a good technical person! Compression is important, too, due to the confines of the screenplay (~100 pages). As opposed to a novelist, who has to write a lot more than a screenwriter.
Bleh. That "book" (notice quotation marks) of 37signals' has more horseshit per word than the book of Mormon. Okay, let's "get real".<p>Candidate A doesn't know what a binary tree is--but he knows how to properly stamp out dangling participles.<p>Candidate B knows how to code.<p>The first rule of a good writer isn't clarity, style, correct semicolon deployment, etc, but is rather saying things that aren't patently false.