Me on My Book: Or Why Doing Interviews Is Actually Hard

Two days until my book comes out! It's very exciting and sort of scary. Portfolio ran an interview with me on their blog and spelled my name wrong. I was sort of relieved, because I wasn't honestly thrilled with how it came out. I blame myself, not the reporter, but I was laughing as I was saying some things and instead it came out sort of snarky in print. I kept reading it thinking, "Aw, that's not what I meant!" Probably reporter karma because I've heard that from sources over the years! Anyway, I'm linking to it because invariably people will accuse me of being too easy on all these Web moguls and I think I come off kinda jerky. . .

For contrast, here is a segment from Tech Ticker yesterday about Max Levchin, where my general excitement about those sections of the book probably come off as too complimentary. My co-host, Aaron Task, figured since everyone else in NYC was interviewing me about the book this week, he should to. He read it all weekend-- even writing notes in the margin!-- and asked some great questions. A few segments will post later today too.