Friction is for losers
In today's edition: chat bots, Venmo "reparations," bassoonfluencers and lesser Karens
I have lately felt a kind of inarticulate loneliness, and I wonder
if any of you have, as well. It began in the long, curve-flattening days of the pandemic, once the Zoom happy hours became chores and we better understood the situation’s permanence. I’m lucky, by all means; I have no children and got to work at home. In the beginning, we drank a lot and …