These are some of the responses to Software Friction. Blogs on a similar topic Laurie Tratt wrote What Factors Explain the Nature of Software? which touches on the topic of friction, too. Emails and Comments I’m an Infantry Officer in the US Marine Corps, we talk quite a bit about friction. One book you may be interested in if you’re reading Clausewitz is Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 1 (MCDP 1) Warfighting (link to PDF at bottom). It’s a pretty quick read. We approach it largely i...