Speed Did Not Remove Friction. It Moved It.
We were promised that AI would eliminate the friction from our professional lives. The dream was simple: offload the tedious drafting, the manual data sorting, and the grunt work to the machine so we could focus on high-level strategy. But as anyone working in the trenches of AI-enabled workflows knows, friction is a law of nature. It does not simply disappear; it relocates.
February 26, 2026