Jenny Odell

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
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ProutyProutyFirst to rec“Odell’s work has really informed my relationship to my creative life.”
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Levi“Title does a lot of the work here. Watch the sunset, listen to the birds, buy shelled peanuts for crows, think about how cool trees are. Corporations have known for a long time how valuable our attention is and the greatest act of resistance is to slow down and be as "useless" as possible.”
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Kt“makes me want to wander an urban forest while rethinking all my life choices in the best way.”
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Taylor Brogan“I listened to this audiobook in about two days, mostly while walking around my neighborhood in deep covid, maybe June 2020. I've since re-read it twice, and it's one of the few books I would almost universally recommend. Completely transformed my relationship to my immediate environment, the internet, and "society."”
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Lara
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