“Friction-maxxing”, Failure, and Learning to Code

In a culture obsessed with optimization (global maximums only, please), the internet has taken a particular enjoyment in finding things to “maxx”: tokenmaxxing, looksmaxxing, funmaxxing, sleepmaxxing, etc. If only we find the right virtue to optimize, perhaps all will be right in our lives. Earlier this year, one of these emerging net-native neologisms caught my […]