Friction
The system always balances its books eventually. The more we optimize individual experiences for frictionlessness, the more collectively dysfunctional our systems become. All three worlds are interlocked in this economy of friction
Kyla Scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World Is Friction
I’m disturbed by a collective desire to avoid friction for the sake of (false) certainty, mainly because I think friction makes us human.
Tembe Denton-Hurst • Good conversations I had last week
‘People are having these coping devices with how hard it is to be with each other when actually it's through the hardness of being with each other that we find the peace and the comfortableness. Like you were talking about with Age of Pleasure, part of being comfortable is maybe that you test that - it’s not just happiness all the time, it's
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Is inconvenience the cost of community?
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The opposite of communion is also useful to me. When I am with others, when I read books, when I look at Twitter—I feel like a dam filling with water, with potential energy. But it is usually not until I spend a long time alone in my head that it turns into kinetic energy. My best writing happened after I, at the end of 2021, got so sick that I... See more
Henrik Karlsson • On Having More Interesting Ideas
Friendships are, by their very nature, made of friction. To know what is going on in someone’s day-to-day life, to make plans with them, and then reschedule those plans when someone inevitably gets sick, and then bring over Calpol or soup or an extra laptop charger. To water their plants while they’re away, to ask them to take your kids when you’re... See more