WHEN TO USE 

Use when speed, automation, or AI has made something easier, but you suspect it’s quietly costing your team’s thinking, relationships, or judgment.

WHAT TO DO

Map where you’ve recently added speed or automation and note which of those changes felt like a relief versus a real loss. Pick one area and design a small, specific friction to reintroduce for two weeks (for example, writing your own thinking before opening an AI tool or reinstating a weekly conversation you’d replaced with a dashboard), then decide whether it’s worth keeping permanently.