In the AI Age, Making Things Difficult Is Deliberate

Productive friction has three main principles:

1. Immediate feedback: You understand when you've failed and can see why.


2. Cumulative learning: Each attempt builds your reference library.


3. Transferable principles: The specific teaches the general.

The choice The world divides in two. On one side: utility, stripped of mystery, measured in speed, cost, and precision. Frictionless. On the other: meaning, full of ambiguity, judged by story, risk, and personal intent. AI is conquering the first. It should. Let it drive the bus, draft the forms, color-correct the photo, and sand some of the roughe

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