The Lost Art of Being Slightly Uncomfortable: Why Modern Relationships Need Friction (opens in new tab)

A friend recently told me that his twenty-something employee quit rather than make a phone call. Not a threatening phone call. Not a call to the IRS. Not a call informing a family member of a tragedy. A perfectly ordinary phone call. The kind of phone call that, for most of the twentieth century, was considered so unremarkable that nobody would have mentioned it afterward. Today it qualifies as a story. This is one of those moments when older folks begin saying things that make younger folks ...