About Me
Why I dropped everything and turned to bitcoin
Historian → Researcher → Teacher → Blogger → Author → Coach → Bitcoiner
I'm Phil, and this is my story.
After studying history and a brief career in advertising, I ran away to join the circus. OK, not the circus (I can't do backflips). But I did leave the UK to travel the world and teach English.
Argentina, Mexico, and Asia opened my eyes to different people, attitudes and realities. I started to write - first a humorous travel blog, articles, then fiction. Since 2016, I've published hundreds of stories and several books.
In addition to writing for clients, I began to coach writers online. One of those writers orange-pilled me, and I'm forever grateful. We still work together today.
In 2024, I shuttered my coaching business to focus full time on my two passions - writing and bitcoin. Now I work exclusively with bitcoin-native clients.
A few years ago, I finally stopped travelling and settled in the Canary Islands, Spain. I live there with Betty and Balthazar🐈⬛🐈⬛.
They are currently chasing the laser dot.
My Books
Before. During. After.
This novella-in-flash presents a sequence of life-changing moments for twenty interconnected characters.
The book is set in a small town in the USA, and focuses on the lives of students, teachers and parents of the local high school.
21 Futures: Tales from the Timechain
Welcome to the world's first Bitcoin fiction anthology.
In this book of diverse stories planted firmly in the bitcoin-verse, reality fractures into 21 futures. Some are wonderful, others terrifying.
You are not prepared.
Fifteen Shades of Time
Troubled philosopher Luca Cangemi wrestles with the fabric of time in a lecture that will transform the lives of every person in attendance.
They all discover something incredible about the nature of time. Will you discover it too?
Hey Phil, why do you hate AI so much?
I call myself a totally human writer because that's who my writing is for - real live people!
Computers are better than us at chess, but we still love to play. We enjoy the strategy and competition.
And just like chess, writing is a system of training. Reading and writing helps us appreciate cause and consequence, and this improves our decision making. Even though AI can write faster and more (grammatically) accurately, it doesn't know what readers understand or appreciate.
Writing that humans love includes:
🧠 Patterns of structured thought
🗣️ Sound rhetoric and opinion
🖊️ The creativity of language
📚 The beauty of stories
Without data to parse, machines cannot create moving text. We construe meaning between the lines, between the words even. That is what allows us to connect on a truly human level with readers.
Just as we have recognised the importance of the concepts behind chess, we must do the same for the process of writing.
TL;DR - I'm not against the use of AI, but I believe readers connect with personal stories, humour and experience which CrapGPT cannot produce.
