#208: What is rotting, if not rest?
All across our culture, you’ll find people eager to abandon the fundamental task of our lives, fostering and maintaining human connection, so that they can fall deeper into a pit of hedonistic distraction forever. You send an email a large language model wrote for you to spare yourself a minute of mental activity at the end of a long day working f
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How to Do Nothing. “A social body that can’t concentrate or communicate with itself is
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
I consider “doing nothing” both as a kind of deprogramming device and as sustenance for those feeling too disassembled to act meaningfully.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
consider “doing nothing” both as a kind of deprogramming device and as sustenance for those feeling too disassembled to act meaningfully.