Is friction always bad?

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

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.

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?

When everything is easy, nothing feels meaningful.