When I first came across How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, I thought it would be like Digital Minimalism, if that book had been written by a biracial woman artist. But How to Do Nothing is so much more nuanced and meandering (in a good way) than Digital Minimalism, probably because it was written by a biracial woman artist.
Rather than a call to quit social media or put down our phones, Jenny Odell instead implores us to shift our attention to the world around us. Drawing from sources in the arts, philosophy, and activism, this book isn’t so much a guide to decreasing our dependance on technology as it is a treatise on how to live in the world we currently inhabit.
