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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
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Most people have, or have known someone who has, gone through some period of “removal” that fundamentally changed their attitude to the world they returned to. Sometimes that’s occasioned by something terrible, like illness or loss, and ...more
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