Jenny Odell Quotes (Author of How to Do Nothing)

I want this not only for artists and writers, but for any person who perceives life to be more than an instrument and therefore something that cannot be optimized.

From the context of slow productivity, investments of this type make a lot of sense. The more you can tame the small commitments pulling at your attention, the more sustainably and effectively you can work on things that matter.

Occupying the “third space” within the attention economy is important not just because, as I’ve argued, individual attention forms the basis for collective attention and thus for meaningful refusal of all kinds. It is also important because in a time of shrinking margins, when not only students but everyone else has “put the pedal to the metal,” an

Jenny Odell. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Melville House. 2019.