The Convenience Maker

Most people's motivation for waking up is their morning coffee.

They fill the machine's water reservoir, place a paper filter in the basket, add ground coffee to the filter, and press start. While the coffee brews, they often prep for their day, grabbing a mug and milk to add once brewing is complete.

But what happens when we streamline this ritual?

Someone whose job is to see friction will eliminate it wherever possible. They'll work for months, if not years, to smooth every edge, simplify every step.

But the point of elimination isn't just to eliminate. It's to make room.

And that's where the trap of insufficiency begins.

The coffee that took 10 minutes now brews in under 2. Your hyper-optimized mind immediately wonders: What should I do with this gift of time? Journal? Start a project? Read a book?Hence, a constant, gnawing feeling of "I'm not doing enough."

When the convenience maker streamlines your coffee ritual into a single button press, they're solving a problem you didn't have, while creating a solution you then can't function without.

Being a problem solver is great. But when "any friction whatsoever" starts seeming like a catastrophe to fix, we risk losing the Art of Adaptation. Like losing the ability to function when your WiFi goes down.

Solutions are only solutions when don't create new problems.

And by the looks of how things are going, we're drowning in invisible issues, where we can't help but desperately believe that our next convenience upgrade will somehow save us from the very emptiness it helped create.

"The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more."