It’s not exactly a guide to doing nothing more like a suggestion that you could refuse to do some of the things that fracture your attention - reading every push notification that crosses your phone screen, watching 500 Instagram stories between every basic task - and protect your mind from becoming slippery and splintered. What can you do? To hear most people tell it, you can either succumb to using Facebook and Instagram for hours a day, every single day, or you can delete the apps and throw your phone into the ocean.Īrtist and writer Jenny Odell proposes a third choice: to “participate, but not as asked.” Her book How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy is out April 9 through Melville House it’s adapted from a talk she gave in 2017 at the Minneapolis art and technology conference Eyeo.
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