"Like all my writing about technology, it’s mostly about people."
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a close up of a cartoon character 's face with a serious expression .
Alt: M Bison shouting yes yes.
@phirephoenix.comI wrote a thing about this exact frictionlessness last week, from the perspective of art in particular. phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-10...
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choosing friction
In 2018, legal scholar Tim Wu wrote in the New York Times that: Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all desti...