How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

by Jenny Odell

A simple refusal motivates my argument: refusal to believe that the present time and place, and the people who are here with us, are somehow not enough.

“Nothing” is neither a luxury nor a waste of time, but rather a necessary part of meaningful thought and speech.

of how versus whether—has

useful attitude toward despair,

allowing yourself to believe in another world while living in this one.

the ability not just to withdraw attention, but to invest it somewhere else, to enlarge and proliferate it,

attention may be the last resource we have left to withdraw.

Curiosity is what gets me so involved in something that I forget myself.