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✍️ New post: The Shape of Friction I wrote a short blog post reply to @davatron5000.bsky.social’s recent post (👏) about generative AI, friction, and people. matthiasott.com/notes/the-sh...

matthiasott.comThe Shape of Friction · Matthias OttWeb design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

Juan Luis

@juanlu.space

24 Mar

Good writeup! I'm reading more and more people reclaiming friction lately. Some of my favourites: Daniele Procida's vurt.org/articles/my-...

vurt.orgMy favourite German word - Daniele ProcidaIf creators of documentation are prepared to sacrifice its human purpose in order that LLMs can more effectively slurp it up and regurgitate it on demand, then they have meekly accepted values that mo...

Juan Luis

@juanlu.space

24 Mar

@tante.cc 's tante.cc/2025/07/30/f...

tante.ccFriction and not being touchedThe journalist Karen Hao – who published an absolutely fantastic book about OpenAI called “Empire of AI” recently – coined (as far as I know) one of the best terms for describing modern “AI” systems: ...

Juan Luis

@juanlu.space

@kjezermorton.bsky.social 's www.thecut.com/article/broo...

thecut.comIn 2026, We Are Friction-MaxxingIn the face of technologies that sell us escapism at every turn, we need to build up tolerance for “inconvenience.”

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Juan Luis

@juanlu.space

24 Mar

@citymystic.bsky.social 's houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/you-dont-n...

houseofmirrors.substack.comYou Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become SensualThe digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies

Juan Luis

@juanlu.space

18 Sept

> Let’s define terms. What is pain? Evidence of aliveness. Information. > What is discomfort? A thwarted will. Another banger. bsky.app/profile/jpbr...

JP@jpbrammer.bsky.social

I wrote about AI, our relationship to pain and to comfort, and about why writing should hurt johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/writing-sh...

johnpaulbrammer.substack.comWriting Should HurtOn our relationship to pain and creativity