What happens when we start removing friction from almost everything?
A teenager on an e-bike can travel further with less physical effort.
Dinner can arrive at the front door without us walking to the restaurant.
A map means we rarely have to get lost.
A screen means we rarely have to be bored.
And AI increasingly means we don't always have to struggle through the thinking, writing, researching or creating ourselves.
None of these things are necessarily bad.
In fact, many of them are extraordinary improvements to everyday life.
But perhaps we've started asking the wrong question.
Instead of simply asking:
How can we make this easier?
What if we sometimes asked:
Is this difficulty doing something for me?