Technology already takes care of the truly tedious things—a gold star to Microsoft Excel—but we’re still inventing, faster and faster than ever. The tech industry seems to have tasked itself with a mass excavation of everything “effortful”, and with every day that passes, the human hand becomes slightly more redundant.

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Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. We are becoming people who care mainly or only about outcomes. We are at risk of

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