Is friction always bad?

Our drive for simplification pretty much shaped our collective assumptions about software design: easier is always better, and friction is always bad . The best interface is the interface that needs no learning at all, isn't this what we've been preaching for years?

Good complexity creates new possibilities. Poor complexity creates unnecessary obstacles.

When everything is easy, nothing feels meaningful.

what determines your ability to write well more than anything else is writing a lot. Once you reach the threshold of writing a decent sentence, the thing that leads to success is writing more.