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Friction: Roadblocks, Speedbumps, & Guardrails

2025-05-12 Become a friction-fixer! Introducing the PRESS framework! Guardrails, roadblocks, and speedbumps can be your ally. Take the steps to ensure they are.

Environmental Friction – Make Your Space, Find Your Flow

2025-05-05 Struggling with distractions or uninspired by your space? Environmental Friction explores how your surroundings impact focus and creativity. Learn to spot chaos or blandness, and get practical tips to...

Strategic Friction - Look Before You Leap

2025-04-28 Strategic friction: Intentional pauses to improve decisions. Balance thoughtful reflection with progress to avoid mistakes and ensure quality outcomes in work and life.

Social Friction – The People Problem (and Solution)

2025-04-21 Social friction—the tension in human interactions—can stall progress or sharpen ideas. Learn how to balance it to transform people problems into solutions.

Cognitive Friction – The Mental Load of Unfinished Business

2025-04-14 Cognitive friction: mental strain from too many tasks or too little focus. Learn to manage it with lists, priorities, and small wins to stay sharp and productive.

Communication Friction – Signal to Noise Ratio

2025-04-07 Communication friction: too much noise buries the message, too little signal creates gaps. Learn to balance clarity and brevity for better outcomes.

Decision-Making Friction – The Cost of Too Many Choices

2025-03-31 Decision-making friction is the mental drag from too many choices or too few.

Bureaucratic Friction – Guardrails, not Quicksand

2025-03-24 Definition: Bureaucratic friction involves policies, processes, and approvals that either ensure quality or create slowdowns—guardrails that guide or quicksand that strangles.

Friction: Friend & Foe

2025-03-17 Friction can grind you down or hold you steady— it’s all in how you handle it. Explore "The Friction Project" by Sutton & Rao in Part 1 of our 9-part series. Learn what friction is, how to spot it, an...