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transplanted_spud 's review for:
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
by Jenny Odell
challenging
hopeful
informative
slow-paced
Man, this was a bonkers read out of time...written in 2019, it feels SO 2019. Wild how something can end up being so dated just 5 or so years after publishing.
Some of the thoughts and ideas in this book are really fascinating and I could see how they would have been a balm in the crazy days of Trump's first-term, pre-COVID. Reading it today, a couple of months in to the whiplash of Trump's second term, was a bit depressing. Whereas 2019 was absolutely frenetic and anxious, thus a great breeding ground for Odell's thoughts, 2025 has seen that energy replaced by a savage meanness. I don't know what Odell's intentional connected communities look like in this version of the world.
Glad I read it, but I believe I would have gotten more out of it if I'd only read it earlier.
Some of the thoughts and ideas in this book are really fascinating and I could see how they would have been a balm in the crazy days of Trump's first-term, pre-COVID. Reading it today, a couple of months in to the whiplash of Trump's second term, was a bit depressing. Whereas 2019 was absolutely frenetic and anxious, thus a great breeding ground for Odell's thoughts, 2025 has seen that energy replaced by a savage meanness. I don't know what Odell's intentional connected communities look like in this version of the world.
Glad I read it, but I believe I would have gotten more out of it if I'd only read it earlier.