Stephen Downes

Tom Watson argues in favour of seeking out productive friction. "The often quoted Thinking and Fast and Slow talks of two types of thinking System 1: fast, intuitive, automatic thinking and System 2: slower, effortful, deliberate thinking. The removal of friction from much of our thinking work means we need to be very deliberate in leaning into System 2 as a practice." My own preference is to use the word 'resistance' rather than 'friction', and in slogan form, it's "Do hard things."