Is "Good Friction" A Bad Idea?

And what precisely does it mean?

I wrote about the idea of “friction” the other week, and whether something like “we should make things harder” is a good insight or barking up the wrong tree. Or even, as another writer I engaged with in that piece suggests, a kind of doorway into weird reactionary politics.

I argued that I didn’t think it was, though I can see how it can be. Referring t…