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Friction Maxxing: The Internet Rediscovers That Struggle Is Good for You

Struggle has value, and the internet just rediscovered it. Friction-maxxing means making your tech deliberately harder to use — and Dom Bettinelli, Fr. Joseph Sund, and Pat Scott find that the monks got there about seventeen centuries first. The post Friction Maxxing: The Internet Rediscovers That Struggle Is Good for You appeared first on StarQuest Media.

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