What is Productive Friction?
Useful struggle that forces thinking before the tool supplies an answer.
your draft first · then the tool
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In real work
The AI coach waited for her draft plan, adding productive friction before it critiqued.
In the illustration
The assistant's drawer will not open; a handwritten draft card drops into the slot, the locking pin withdraws and only then does the drawer slide out.
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