Kevin Kelly

And so we started to do these little tags on the cover each time saying, we're optimistic.

This is an optimistic view.

This is what we're doing.

And so I think if I was 30 and I knew what it was, I would have spent a little bit more time in accelerating where I was going by actually going back to the Tom Peterson, the brand of you.

I was like, what is my brand?

That's not kind of a selfish thing.

It's actually useful to other people as well.

This is what I learned with Wired is that you kind of want to be able to tell people what it is that you're about to help you become better at it.

And I think when I was 30, I had no idea.

I didn't even think in those terms.

Maybe I would have thought of presumptuous or vain.

But in fact...

It would have been better all around for everyone if I had really kind of worked on where am I aiming at or what do I think I'm about?

And that served, I'd never really done that very seriously.

And I think that would have accelerated the clarity I had of the choices I was going to make beyond that.

So that's what I would urge to people is to think about

yourself if you have to encapsulate what it is that you're about for other people to help other people understand it and therefore to help you realize yourself what your authentic self is.

It's possible that of all the candidates, Jesus was one who, the day before he died, was most authentically himself.

I think you're right.

Well, among the people that I've met, I haven't seen that.