l13sl 's review for:

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

3.5

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 If you read this take notes, I didn't and wish I did because I don't want to reread it but I probably will sometime. Overall there wasn't anything huge or unexpected about this book, but I don't think that was the point. Odell suggests a different approach towards living in general, challenging us to recognize how technology steals us away from the ecological and social contexts that create meaningful lives.You could probably internalize that without reading this, but there are some concepts and examples and the book that help make that feel more concrete, including terms like "manifest destruction" and "i-thou" vs "i-it" mentalities which I won't try to explain but you can read about lol.