Alt title: Why the roads are empty at 3:30 AM.

When booking a flight, why would anyone choose to wake up at three in the morning to head to the airport?

Now being a little extra tired on any given morning isn’t that big of a deal, but it’s certainly more of a pain than sleeping in. It’s not much friction, but it’s enough for the roads to be largely empty.

So much of our society and culture is shaped by things that the vast majority of us “kinda don’t feel like doing” at any given moment.

Our collective reactions to a series of slight inconveniences define our public life.