How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell is a very well thought out book. It has a lot of interesting ideas and the references that Jenny Odell makes with historical instances are very astute and important even now. The idea of bioregionalism as a way for people to connect with their actual surroundings rather than some political idea of unity and the notion which the author advocates for a retreat are very well-put among others.

The chapters in the beginning are connected to the main theme of the book but the chapters that are supposed to contain the crux of the book are somehow lax. When the author actually has to answer the “How to” question the answer is very vague.
But overall I really enjoyed the book.