THE MOST VALUABLE COMMODITY IN THE WORLD IS FRICTION

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

We now live in three different worlds—digital experiences remove all effort, physical infrastructure falls apart from neglect, and wealthy people create bubble neighborhoods where friction becomes aesthetic. AI writes your essays while airport systems fail 700 times weekly. The rich get smooth experiences while everyone else deals with broken systems. This shift moves effort around rather than eliminating it, dumping the hardest work on those with least power to refuse it. Maybe we should see friction not as an enemy but as a signal showing exactly what needs fixing in our economy.