My October 2009 Flash Forward interview conducted by Mike Zipser recently got tossed onto YouTube, so you no longer have to search for it in their archives. Which means it’s easier for you to see who I was and what I thought I was doing with my life five years ago. (As opposed to who I was and what I thought I was doing with my life twenty-four years ago, when John Pomeranz interviewed me for the same show in 1990.)

As I watch this, the one thing I wish I could go back in time to whisper into my ear is—Chill out, dude! Relax.

I don’t know how I sound in that video to you, but to me, I seem to be in a race, talking much too quickly, and rushing to squeeze as many words as possible into the time allotted, which I think can only unsettle an audience.

Maybe none of that is there, and my reaction is simply the one we all tend to have to the sounds of our own voices.

But I think not. What do you think?