How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
3.5 stars
I put off reading this book 20+ times and I had given up on it when a friend recommended it to me so I picked it up again. This book has a lot and there was much that I could easily have skimmed but in there there are also a lot of gems.
“scrolling through the feed…many things in there seem important but the sum total is nonsense and it produces not understanding but a dull and stupefying dread.”
This is a feeling I have often. I feel this with podcasts, magazine articles and short episodes too. I don’t enjoy bite-sized information nearly as much as truly sinking my teeth into something. Getting attached to the characters, the story. Caring deeply. I think that’s why I enjoy novels so much more.
I am glad I finally read it.
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