{"id":21447,"date":"2026-01-06T17:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/friction-maxxing-could-less-convenience-lead-to-much-more-happiness\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:37:18","slug":"friction-maxxing-could-less-convenience-lead-to-much-more-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/friction-maxxing-could-less-convenience-lead-to-much-more-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Friction-maxxing: could less convenience lead to much more happiness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The conveniences of modern life such as Uber Eats and ChatGPT are robbing us of satisfaction \u2013 and worse still, infantilising us. But should we really go back to the basics? <\/p>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Friction-maxxing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Age:<\/strong> Brand new.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/06\/friction-maxxing-could-less-convenience-lead-to-much-more-happiness\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fd03fb9c7dcc6b61ed9f7990a15bd937bbafa652\/1108_0_5539_4431\/master\/5539.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=071ccc5967748e23e6d6979282bf2810\" title=\"Friction-maxxing: could less convenience lead to much more happiness?\" \/>The conveniences of modern life such as Uber Eats and ChatGPT are robbing us of satisfaction \u2013 and worse still, infantilising us. But should we really go back to the basics?<br \/>\nName: Friction-maxxing.<br \/>\nAge: Brand new. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conveniences of modern life such as Uber Eats and ChatGPT are robbing us of satisfaction \u2013 and worse still, infantilising us. But should we really go back to the basics? Name: Friction-maxxing. Age: Brand new. Continue reading&#8230; The conveniences of modern life such as Uber Eats and ChatGPT are robbing us of satisfaction \u2013 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/friction-maxxing-could-less-convenience-lead-to-much-more-happiness\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friction-maxxing: could less convenience lead to much more happiness?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}