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Jenny Odell

Jenny Odell is the Books For author to start with when “doing more” has stopped feeling like a solution and attention itself needs defending.

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Odell appears where burnout, social media fatigue and attention overlap. Her work is not anti-effort; it is anti-extraction. On this site, How to Do Nothing is a counterweight to productivity culture, doomscrolling and the feeling that every minute has to prove its usefulness.

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How to Do Nothing — Start here if you are tired of feeling like every part of your life has to produce something.

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

You are tired of feeling like every part of your life has to produce something.

How to Do Nothing

You want to be less online without becoming less thoughtful, aware, or engaged.

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