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Cassidy Williams – Introduce Friction:

Right now we live lives of incredible convenience. Everything that comes out is designed to introduce more and more instant gratification. And that’s a really nice thing… to a point.

I see so many stories of people, daily, talking about how people (especially students) today have worse and worse attention spans and patience than ever before, and I think that’s the result of our world working as designed. We’ve made people addicted to instantly getting the object they want, the food they want, the information they want, the answers they want, to the point of them not being willing to do their own research or wait just a bit longer for… anything. We’re lazy about seeking answers and unhappy with having to wait for results. We can’t be bored.

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Anyway. I think we could all benefit from a bit more friction in our lives, whether it’s via boycotting something, adding limits to something, cutting something out entirely, or just stepping back before letting ourselves succumb to the addictive feeds of the world. There’s strength in numbers, so if you don’t mind the call to action: Let’s work on that, together!

There’s somewhat of a meta application here as well: blogging comes with its own friction. It’s certainly harder than tweeting or posting a story or a status update.