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

4.0

“How to do nothing” was nothing like I had expected. At times esoteric and too abstract (for me), Odell talks about the effect of attention and mindfulness both on us as individuals and (less obviously) on our relationship to our communities and the physical world around us. It doesn’t focus on social media nearly as much as I had thought it would, and instead poignantly highlights what we *are* missing by giving our unintentional attention to digital stimulation. Her examples range from art exhibitions to trade unions — the diversity of stories made her thesis all the more compelling.

Framing our own attention as a resource we can take back is pretty empowering.