Woke up early this morning, certainly not out of excitement for what awaits me later this morning: my first 3.5 hour Zoom call for a commission to which the Governor has appointed me on stuff related to mental health, substance abuse etc. If I had known it was going to be all Zoom I might have reconsidered. But I am on it so I have to show up. Ahh, adulting.
Mary also woke up early due to hunger -- never quite having internalized the lesson to eat heartily the minute she gets to a fundraiser like the one we were at yesterday early evening. Her early rising broke my rhythm in my early morning reading. Excited to have a fresh book by Abraham Yeshua Heschel to mosey through. But I was unable to settle into the proper reflective gestalt for this time of morning, and I opened up my laptop, thinking perhaps to blog.
I won't bore you with the details of how I got there, but somehow I found myself looking at a LinkedIn post from a local tech entrepreneur discussing anticipated trends in 2026. He prophesies the "death of clicks," by which he apparently means that AIs will make it even easier for us to buy things online, the removal of "friction." He and some commenter were excited by this.
Heaven forfend.
Must it be even easier for us to buy things? Will that not just encourage us to buy more? When purchasing, when fulfilling our wishes, what serves us better, thinking fast or thinking slow? Indeed, how is it that we know what we want? Our best efforts are directed at answering that kind of question, not at simply fulfilling our desires more easily.
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