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Putting your phone aside in the year of friction-maxxing

Here & Now’s Indira Lakshmanan talks with journalist and New York Magazine columnist Kathryn Jezer-Morton about her column “In 2026, We are Friction-Maxxing.”

Friction-maxxing, coined by Jezer-Morton, is the idea of putting aside our phones and the convenience they bring in exchange for doing things the way we did before technology entered our lives.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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