Reducing Friction by Chris Wanstrath

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"...if there's one thing I've learned from Rails, it's to get the hell out of 
the way and let people focus on the task at hand.

Reduce friction.

Newton's first law of motion, as commonly written, makes two statements: an 
object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in 
motion. It's often referred to as the Law of Inertia.

And inertia, for those who don't remember or didn't take high school physics, 
is an object's tendency to resist changes in its state of motion.

If you kick a ball, it'll eventually slow to a stop. But it doesn't want to. 
Friction created by moving over the ground and through the air acts against the
ball, conspiring to stop it at all costs.

The more friction you remove, the further the ball will go and the longer it 
will take to slow.

This idea of friction, it's a lot like the inverse of productivity. Being 
productive means getting things done efficiently and effectively. Friction
keeps you from doing those things, slows you down, conspires against you, 
wastes energy.

And very often, friction costs you money."

source: https://gist.github.com/0a2655aed6a26fa15a02