Running is hard.
And thus the treadmill was born - running became slightly easier.
My personal opinion is that the treadmill makes it so much harder!
Actually, by altering the tilt you can do the same amount of exercise without switching from walking to a run
“Well, I have news for you: some things are just hard. There’s no way of getting around it.”
That quote, even in the context of managing distractions as per the article, is the antithesis of technology as a whole. Yes, some people will put off hard things but somebody, somewhere, will find a way to do it easily and then that hard thing becomes easy for everyone - on to the next! To suggest that we all should just roll over and accept that some things must be hard and remain that way is absurd.