This interview is from a couple years ago, but the article gives no indication of that aside from this note at the very bottom in italics:

This article was originally published on the User Interface Resource Center (UIRC). For more info, please see http://uxmag.com/uirc

Just FYI...

This sounds like an embrace of the famous "worse is better essay".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

How do you decide when less is more, and when more is better?

There seems to be this optimal balance that he alludes to, but never really discusses with exact detail.

Less audio links would be better. Looking at the comments on the post, I see I'm not the only one who had a bad user experience on that page.