Path · Seed idea · last reconsidered September 8, 2026

What the Tool Took

The site's central argument, walked end to end: from the questions a good tool lets you skip, through the objection that most of them were worth skipping.

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Reading time
About 15 minutes

Six stops through the argument this site is built on, including the strongest case against it. Start with the question, meet the claim, meet the counter-claim, then decide for yourself which frictions were carrying something.

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Steps

  1. 01startWhat are we no longer forced to ask?Start with the question the site is named after: which questions stop getting asked once a tool answers them.
  2. 02buildingCheap answers do not make questions cheapHere is our own answer, stated as a claim so you can disagree with it.
  3. 03turnNot all lost friction was formativeAnd here is the best objection to it, which we also hold.
  4. 04buildingWhich friction creates judgment?The disagreement turns into an empirical question: which friction was teaching anything?
  5. 05buildingTools cross a second watershedIllich gives the question a threshold: the point past which the unaided version becomes impossible.
  6. 06destinationWhich abilities should remain ours?Arrive where the argument has to be settled case by case, not in general.