You're right that he does seem to indicate he does exclude himself, but I feel like he puts more effort into that article to include himself with the comparisons made.

But maybe that's not the issue as much as:

I think the larger issue is that he really doesn't make the case (and maybe that's not the point) that these ideas are in fact as great as he makes them out to be. He mentions then and then goes on to mention some basic math, about the matrix... that's not convincing and raises all sorts of questions in my mind.