Reviews - How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Not a how-to book, but one that questions the philosophical, economic and moral underpinnings of action and conscious inaction. While Odell lauds setting down your phone and exploring nature, she also frowns on the commercialization and motives for some who advocate unplugging. Lots of ideas to unpack and reexamine here. Recommended.

jacalahud's review against another edition

4.25

challenging hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

sabrinaaa720's review against another edition

2.0

challenging informative inspiring mysterious slow-paced

Relatively hard to get into for the first almost half, but more enjoyable as I continued. Some add ins like birds were charming albeit unexpected, some stories and points felt longer than necessary, and often I would be confused about the meaning of the writing. I’m not sure what to take away from the book because what little I did understand while reading, slipped my mind as soon as the pages were closed.

scy11a's review against another edition

4.0

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

robi6icarus's review against another edition

4.25

hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

this book had a lot of beautiful poetic lines/thoughts/ideas, i really like the author's brain. it just got more academic at times which i have trouble reading