Author: John Breininger

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.

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The New Bottleneck Isn’t Execution

For decades, the primary constraint on progress was execution. If a project stalled, it was usually because of tangible scarcity: not enough budget, not enough time, or not enough people. That friction was often unwelcome, but it served a vital, hidden purpose.

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The Rise of the Curatorial Mind

Over the last year, AI-enabled tools have radically accelerated the pace of work. Tasks that once took days now compress into seconds. Drafts appear instantly. Cycles shorten. We expected this speed to make work lighter, but for many of us, the opposite has happened.

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