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

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

Interesting discussion about the attention economy. Not a guide as the title suggests but more of the authors thoughts. Could have done without so much description of art pieces. At times, felt a bit disjointed. I particularly liked this quote: “I looked over at my neighbor, the song sparrow, and thought about how just a few years ago, I wouldn’t have known its name, might not have even seen it at all. How lonely that world seemed in comparison to this one! But the sparrow and I were no longer strangers. It was no stretch of the imagination, nor even of science, to think that we were related. We were both from the same place (Earth), made of the same stuff. And most important, we were both alive. “