On Taking the Time You Need to Notice, Think, and Grow
“No, you’re actually on the right path, it just doesn’t feel like a path yet. Ironically, that’s the evidence that you’re doing something interesting.”
Jenny Odell • On Taking the Time You Need to Notice, Think, and Grow
In the book I also advocate for a smaller scale of attention, or just a different scale of attention. I realize that not everyone can go outside right now, but as an example, I’ve been going on the same walk over and over again. I live at the bottom of a hill, and on maybe the fourth or fifth time walking up this hill, I just started wondering,... See more
Jenny Odell • On Taking the Time You Need to Notice, Think, and Grow
how to build curiosity? spending time with things and wanting more from the thing. Then the thing I spend a lot of time with is maybe myself. We want to know more about the things we spend time with
Especially if you work in and around institutions, where you’re trying really hard to sell your work or sell the idea of your work, it’s really tempting to want to fall very nicely into the groove of some discipline or rhetoric that people understand and can identify. It can be so uncomfortable to be working in an interdisciplinary way that’s hard... See more