Convenience
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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But we err in presuming convenience is always good, for it has a complex relationship with other ideals that we hold dear. Though understood and promoted as an instrument of liberation, convenience has a dark side. With its promise of smooth, effortless efficiency, it threatens to erase the sort of struggles and challenges that help give meaning to
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So let’s reflect on the tyranny of convenience, try more often to resist its stupefying power, and see what happens. We must never forget the joy of doing something slow and something difficult, the satisfaction of not doing what is easiest. The constellation of inconvenient choices may be all that stands between us and a life of total, efficient
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But when ease becomes the default measure of value—when “fast” and “frictionless” are always better, we lose something critical: the slow, inconvenient texture of real life and real relationships.
Israa Nasir • A good life is inconvenient.
But smoothness, it turns out, is a dubious virtue, since it’s often the unsmoothed textures of life that make it livable, helping nurture the relationships that are crucial for mental and physical health, and for the resilience of our communities.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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