I feel like I've read this before, but I must not have known who Paul Phillips was the first time around. Interesting to be reading about the poker player and not the compiler author
Oh damn, I didn't know they were the same person. All I knew about him beforehand is from watching this video[1], but it's weird to read about a person and then find out that they also were the same person that you knew from somewhere else.
[1] (How Scala [Typesafe] is doing "everything wrong")