From moral architect and technologist Jason Alan Snyder comes a piercing, poetic, and prescriptive blueprint for restoring what optimization erased.

This is not a rejection of technology. It’s a reclamation of humanity.

Human After Friction is a practical field guide for anyone who feels numbed by ease and hungry to feel real again.

• Exit the loop, the scroll, and the flattening feed

• Reclaim authorship in a world of autofill

• Build systems that feel - and still function

• Protect the sacred

• Move at the speed of meaning