Greg Morris

Latest — 08 Oct 2025

Moving Again

As you may have read already, I have moved my blog to Ghost. After using it extensively in 2020, I switched to something more simple and personal on micro.blog. Whilst this is fine, I have found myself in a place where I don’t really want to use any

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Algorithm & Adverts

Social platforms, ones that allow people to communicate, share ideas and find common ground, can be a net benefit — but its the platform part thats the issue

Scoring Things

Manuel Moreale writing about their inability to Score Books: I suck at this. I genuinely don’t know how to rate things on a scale, which is why the vast majority of the books I rate are either 4 or 4.5. I can’t score things. Not books, not

I Did It Myself

Despite me being adoptive of LLM usage to aid my work from a fairly early stage, there’s a lot of frustration brewing. No, not the fact that Open AI made ChatGPT dumber and less able to produce quality results, the fact that I have to deal with sloppers in

Runna Levels And Engagement Bait

In a recent Reddit post, Runna announced a new experimental feature aimed at improving running motivation. That's right, seeing your real-world fitness improve and times go down isn’t enough, there’s a need to gamify everything to boost engagement — introducing Levels! If you are a premium subscriber,

iPhone Day Weirdness

There’s no point in the post other than to point out some weirdness that I found in the new products and announcements. You are welcome to reply with your own or despute mine. * iPhone Air - not iPhone 17 Air. A hint at naming convention going forwards? Perhaps they

Slow IS Fast

When I wrote about running slow back in May, I wasn’t really sure I believed it. I was trying it because everything else had left me tired, injured, or frustrated, but I still had that nagging sense I was going backwards. I hated how it felt, and I can

Web Users Don't Follow Links Anymore

In news that will surprise absolutely no one, Athena Chapekis reports for Pew Research that Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results: Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than

Pumpkin Spice Level London Photography Spots

Yes, I know a second video in a row from London. I do go to other places, I promise, but when time allows, and I can sneak away from the usual work and family chaos, I sometimes make the drive down and hop on the tube for a bit of

No So Bro

This morning, whilst catching up with my RSS feed subscriptions, I noticed that both Manu and Kevin have posted some updates on experiments I am also currently doing. Also, before we get too far, please excuse the weird title. I’ve been rewatching Silicon Valley this week, and it’s