This is not a philosophy. It’s a framework for staying human after friction.
Friction Is Form
Friction is not failure - it’s the ignition.
Friction is the architecture of experience. It slows us down to the speed of meaning, makes surprise possible, and reminds us we’re alive.
Authorship Over Automation
We are not outputs. We are story-making beings. Prediction flattens perception. Automation hijacks becoming. To stay human, we must reclaim the right to revise, resist, and reimagine ourselves.
The Speed of Meaning
Wonder lives in delay. When everything flows too fast, we forget how to feel. It’s time to move at the speed of presence - not prediction.
Design for Agency
Systems shape behavior. Let’s build ones that liberate.
Ethical design returns power to people. Systems should clarify, not confuse. Restore selfhood by designing for choice, not addiction.
Protect the Sacred
Some things cannot be optimized.
Wonder. Mystery. Gasp. These aren’t bugs - they’re the source code of the soul. The sacred glitch is where our humanity lives.