Key insights from
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
By Jenny Odell
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12 minute read
Published Apr 9, 2019
What you'll learn
Doing nothing is not a passive activity. It takes effort to cultivate a lifestyle that isn’t poked and prodded along by society’s roar for high productivity and airtight efficiency at the expense of our souls and sanity. Artist and Stanford professor Jenny Odell shares some ideas on how we can resist the itch to hurry and do without a clue as to the direction in which we are hurrying and doing.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 A society that can’t think about life without numbers and algorithms has lost something important.
- 2 Nothing is actually something—and it’s something important.
- 3 Doing nothing helps us slow down in a world that constantly has its foot on the accelerator.
- 4 Digital detox programs are well-intentioned, but they often become part of the corporate machinery they were designed to resist.
- 5 Doing nothing does not mean isolating from the world—we still have responsibilities to each other.
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