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by Karin Slaughter (Goodreads Author)
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read in November 2025
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Book cover for How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Nothing is harder to do than nothing. In a world where our value is determined by our productivity, many of us find our every last minute captured, optimized, or appropriated as a financial resource by the technologies we use daily.
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