Is My Life Too Easy? What Is Frictionmaxxing? And Should We All Be Doing It?
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Would you like an app that analyses your Google calendar and plans your day for you? Have you tried ChatGPT for meal planning? What about this ring that tracks your sleep habits and creates a routine that will mean you get to sleep even faster than before? We're suffering a convenience endemic, where the tech and AI solutions to being uncomfortable are breeding new, depressing ways to avoid the realities - and even the fun! - of life.
In this week's episode, hosts Ione and Gina get to grips with frictionmaxxing: The new term encouraging us to add discomfort, time and human interaction to our everyday experiences. The pair discuss how class and disability play into this trend, why our joie de vivre is being robbed from us by capitalism and how we should make more efforts to dilly and dally in our day to day.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor of Polyester. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Ioanni, the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester. And this is the Polyester podcast, |
| 0:10.4 | a feminist pop culture podcast dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. Please make sure to like, |
| 0:16.5 | rate, subscribe and review. And if you didn't already know, members get a free copy of every zine we put out, |
| 0:22.7 | as well as lots of extra perks, like one-on-one mentoring, a group WhatsApp chat where you can talk to me |
| 0:27.8 | and Ione and lords, loads more. Sign up via the link in our description. Do you have any reviews, |
| 0:33.0 | Ione? We do! Yay! |
| 0:36.2 | One new one on Apple, so we're out now, so someone else should go and leave one. Five stars, Love by Nimmy in the UK. Love to the latest episode. Substack has been pissing me off and this was the push I needed to put it in the bin. Love you both and everyone should become a member. Side note. Someone was, like, people were so defensive of substack. |
| 0:55.3 | Like, it's a fucking corporation. |
| 0:57.4 | That platform's so many alt-right people. |
| 0:59.2 | Like, if you're critical of Instagram, TikTok, social media, as we all should be, |
| 1:04.3 | apply that sort of substacks. |
| 1:05.6 | Someone was defending Twitter this week. |
| 1:07.5 | Oh, yeah, I saw that. |
| 1:08.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.9 | And Rob Bataweigh. And defend us cute women. Anyway,, I saw that. Yeah. And Rob Attawayne in. |
| 1:11.8 | And defend us cute women. |
| 1:13.8 | Anyway, and then on... |
| 1:16.0 | Someone in our comment section, by the way, not just like someone online. |
| 1:18.6 | Yeah, then Rob Hattweid in to the wider conversation. |
| 1:23.3 | Then we have on Spotify, Lena. |
| 1:27.0 | Hi there. |
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