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These services are engineered to be addictive—robbing time and attention from activities that more directly support your professional and personal goals (such as deep work).
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
For a brand as for a public figure—which, as we now know, any Twitter user can accidentally become overnight—change, ambiguity, and contradiction are anathema.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Melville House. 2019.
Beth Pickens • Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles
Chapter 1 The Case for Nothing
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Alexi Gunner • idle gaze 067: slowpunk
... See moreThe reality of the attention age is that everywhere you look, both formal and substantive attentional regimes have collapsed. And where there is no attentional regime, no formal set of institutions to force public attention on a topic, no basic rules for who will speak when and who will listen, the need for attention becomes exclusive; it swallows
Unless there’s something specifically about you or your job that requires it, there is nothing to be admired about being constantly connected, constantly potentially productive the second you open your eyes in the morning—and in my opinion, no one should accept this, not now, not ever.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
– Jenny Odell