What is called "friction" here for me is the way we confront reality with our attention span, and our attention result from a body/mind gesture and is a gesture...
Too much easy rich amount of propositions at no cost as what is proposed by A.I. for example makes us poor in our own creative effort then with less deep attention gestures, because all being easy tend to become of equal value...
This is the general pattern for the mass of people... It ask for each one of us a conscious concentration around our priorities more than about leisure time...
The issue isn’t nostalgia. It’s recognizing that streaming’s abundance changes the structure of attention. When every recording is instantly available, there’s less friction, less commitment required for any particular listening choice. This can cultivate—often unconsciously—a browsing habit rather than a dwelling habit. The scarcity of the CD era forced a kind of focused attention: you made a choice, you lived with it, you went deeper because you were there.
