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		andai 66 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thin desires are eating life >From the perspective of a frictionless global marketplace, all of this is pure inefficiency. The frictionless traps you in an infinite web of bullshit. We need more friction at this point, not less. A frictionless todo app affords cognitive bloat. A frictionless communication medium affords noise. Friction is natural and healthy and we heave deleted it.

andai 65 days ago [–]

To expand on this, friction is merely selection pressure. That which filters the signal from the noise.

The gems are lost in the sea of bloat.

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