Ian Bogost
speaker
439 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Ian Bogost’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So part of the exercise, and I think it's an easy exercise, is just,
Just learning that it is.
And when it feels good, admitting that it feels good and not worrying so much that someone's going to look at you funny when you do it.
I'm really glad that you said that because it's not what I'm saying.
is when you're like very smartphone kind of internet focused, everything is so, I mean, everything has been made so easy for us.
Our lives are incredible.
And there's a lot of kind of frictionless, smooth, efficient experiences that we now have.
Instead of going to the store, like this weekend I was working on a project.
I really needed a part from like a home improvement store.
And I didn't have to get in my car and go to the store.
I could just use one of the delivery apps
to get, like, how easy is that?
But now I'm not going to the store, I'm not in my car, and I'm not, like, rummaging through the shelves.
I'm missing out.
Our lives are a lot easier.
And so because of that, like, sense of, like, smoothness or efficiency that we encounter all the time, it's easy to mistake the solution for difficulty.
Like, I need to make my life more difficult now.
I need to introduce friction.
But that's not actually what you want.
Like, that's actually kind of a bananas thing to think.
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