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

informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

"It's tempting to conclude this book with a single recommendation about how to live, but I refuse to do that. That's because the pitfalls of the attention economy can't just be avoided by logging off and refusing the influence of persuasive design techniques. They also emerge at the intersections of issues of public space, environmental politics, class, and race."

Jenny Odell offers insightful and thought-provoking ideas throughout this book touching on each of these issues and what it means to resist the related attention economy. Some parts are a bit drawn out and start to lose the plot - but I felt like the book delivered as hoped.