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.