Which platform is worth more of your time? — This is not clickbait, I promise. The conclusion of this article will not be ‘it depends’. I’m going to suggest spending more time on one of the platforms and give you the reasons straight up. First, a disclaimer: I do not make my living as a freelance writer. I’m a…

Access all my top articles and stories right here I'm 1.95m tall, write books and I can fly. (One of these statements may be false.) Hi, I'm Phil - a writer and an educator from the UK. Currently, I live in Spain, and I help multilingual writers build authority and…

Author & writing coach | podcast host | crisp enthusiast — I’m 1.95m tall, I write books and I can fly. (One of these statements may be false) Allow myself to introduce… myself. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰𝘀: I’m Phil, a writer and coach from the UK. I live in Las Palmas, Spain. And yes, I really am 1.95m …

Writing success is great, but it doesn’t always help you grow I’m not a success story. I’ve failed time and time again. *** Social Media is not the truth. It’s a story. We all curate our achievements and positives into a ‘greatest hits’ album, so our friends and contacts think…

Diving to the ocean floor, holding your breath… until you can’t Breathe deep and break the surface. Ice blue waters tingle on lips. Your arms pull like longboat oars, thrusting you down. Since childhood, you’ve explored every inch of the seabed in front of the beach house, searching for your…

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1935 looks very different to Friedrich’s life in the Weimar Republic — 1925 At curtain up, Herr Friedrich drinks in the atmosphere. The splash of cymbal, pitter-patter laughs, the slivers of expectation that filter through tiny gaps in the crowd, the pause before the next act. Spotlights track his movement across the stage as he sprinkles his set with tonight’s blend of…

Computers are much smarter than us — In 1997, an IBM supercomputer beat the sport’s greatest mind. Deep Blue II became the first machine to defeat a chess world champion — Garry Kasparov. Humans would never win at chess again. But if computers have been better than us for so long, why do we still play chess…

Is it time to switch to something less empty? — ‘I love your content!’ ‘We’re passionate about content marketing.’ ‘In 2023, content is king.’ Every time I hear a phrase like this, a tiny part of me dies. ‘Content’ is an item that is ‘held’ or ‘included’. It’s something that fills space. Is this what we want to be known…