Reason interviews Wired editor Chris Anderson

Among the highlights:

• Anderson says he was a "complete fuck-up" who graduated high school late and flunked out of the University of Maryland with "a 0.0 G.P.A."
• Calls himself a "small 'l' libertarian" who nonetheless voted for Al Gore in 2000: "But I’m not proud of this. I wish the system would put forward politicians that I could vote for."
• Says being a parent of four young children "has made me a better boss."
• Dismisses the Wall Street Journal's Lee Gomes' criticism of The Long Tail: "I struggled a little bit with some of those statistics in my first week of researching this, too, but fortunately, I had time to actually do the math."
• Takes on social theorists such as Paradox of Choice author Barry Schwartz who fear that too much choice is paralyzing: "The answer to the paradox of choice is help."
• Talks about his musical past in a band called R.E.M., which lost a Battle of the Bands to the famous band of the same name.
• Discusses his proudest achievement at Wired: "What I’m most proud of is that we made our very optimistic message about how technology can change the world [matter again] after many people had written that off after the dot-com bust. I’m very proud that we stuck to our mission and that that message resonates [again]. I don’t think we caused it to resonate, but when the world recognized what sort of felt obvious to those of us who live in this world, I was very proud that we were still leading that."