Greg Morris

The Geography of Thought

I spend an inordinate amount of time searching for things I know I have written down. My digital notes are a vast, searchable repository of everything I have thought over the last few years, yet I often feel completely lost within them. I type a thought, I scroll down, and

Building On Shaky Ground

There is something fundamentally sad about watching a product push forward with new features instead of fixing the issues it already has. It feels like watching someone add a second story to a house when the basement is flooded. You know it is going to cause problems down the line,

Sitting In The Mud

I love doing hard things. Always have. There's something about pushing yourself through something difficult that makes everything else easier. When I've slogged away for more than 3 hours running, the rest of my day seems simple in comparison. I'm never going to win

Connecting No One

Nick Heer writing about Meta prevailing in the U.S. antitrust case: Meta is now fully an entertainment company There is a lot to dig into regarding the legal ruling, but this single line struck me as the perfect summary of where we are. The facade is gone. Meta isn&

Simple, Local, TXT

Steph Ango on Mastodon: oops I missed the outage, I was too busy writing in Obsidian The internet broke again. Cloudflare had a wobble, taking down a massive chunk of the web, and everyone panicked. Unless you were working locally. Then you probably didn't even notice until you

A Good Life

I have a huge issue with overcomplicating the rules I live by. I look for productivity systems to manage my work or philosophies to explain my feelings. I want a scorecard. I want to know that if I tick the right boxes, whether that’s closing my Apple Watch rings

The Weight Is Optional

From the first episode of Galaxy brain when Hank Green is asked about how the internet feels to him: it feels so heavy. It feels, we have a government run by the discourse, and so it feels like the discourse matters so much. It feels like everything matters a lot,

Un-doomscrolling

Tonight I felt flat. My wife's been ill for what feels like an age, Lucie's been really poorly, and I've been doing everything. The washing, the cooking, the school runs, the worry. There's no easy way to say it. I'm

The Best Camera Has A Habit

Lee Peterson on iPhone photography. With an iPhone I have a choice of lenses, it’s blends in more, I have filters I can use in real time and I can edit on the device itself if I want to edit there and then. I completely agree with this. The

No Brain Space

One of my favourite writers, Craig Mod in his Ridgeline Newsletter: The modern smartphone, laden with the corporate ecosystem pulsing underneath its screen, robs us of this feeling, conspires to keep us from “true” fullness. The swiping, the news cycles, the screaming, the idiocy — if anything destroys a muse, it’