friction maxxing

i am deeply suspicious of convenience because puts on tinfoil hat tech's most insidious achievement is just "streamlining" everything so we're dumber in the hopes of forcing us to unconsciously cede the very act of living to bots.

so, i'm a big fan of friction (slowness, minor inconveniences, delays, unfamiliarity, etc.) as a perhaps futile gesture to assert my humanity. weight lifters know that "time under tension," aka resistance, is the only path to muscle growth. why should daily life be any different?

take the stairs. pick the in-person version of whatever. occasionally skip the 10-minute sheet pan recipe where you just throw shit together and forget about it, and instead make something different and more involved (occasionally). support collective alternatives that make access fairer, like public transit and mutual aid. let silence be silence instead of filling it with constant content. find something weird and unfamiliar and work to understand it.