Philip Simon.

I live in Cape Town. Most of what I do happens before nine in the morning, or after eleven at night.

The day is for teaching — about a hundred and seventy-five hours a month, all one-on-one, mostly with French professionals who speak English well and want to speak it the way they speak French. The slowest possible work. I love it.

The rest of the time is for reading, for philosophy at UNISA, and for things I’m building that don’t have public names yet.

I prefer one good two-hour conversation to a hundred quick exchanges.
I think slow and talk fast. I grind.