how to do nothing resisting the attention economy review

Their satisfaction levels closely follow the downward curve of their mental health. Employees are resigning in droves in search of better opportunities. In 2022 burnout rates among workers are at unprecedented levels. Purchase:īuy How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy from Malaprop’s Bookstore in Asheville, NC.To say that workers are more exhausted than ever from spending their lives in front of screens would be an understatement. That audience just isn’t me, at least not at this point in my life. There is definitely an audience for this book.

She’s also a visual artist and she describes the opening of an art project that she had spent three months working on, when a woman asks her, “Wait…so did you actually make anything? Or did you just put things on shelves?” I can appreciate (some/most) art, but from the description of this project, I would have felt as perplexed as the woman.

I just can’t wrap my mind around what she’s trying to say. I don’t mean that we disagree about ideas I mean that she presents information in a way that I don’t understand. I have friends who aren’t able to read at all.Īnd yet another problem is that I just don’t think in the same way that the author does. I’ve finally realized that lighter, more fast-paced fiction is all I have in my wheelhouse right now, and I’m okay with that. Part of the problem is that, ironically enough, my attention span has been almost non-existent since the beginning of the COVID stay-at-home orders in March. Trail guides! They aren’t exactly meant to be read cover-to-cover. I would find myself pulling up trail guides on my Kindle instead. This book asks for more thought than I’m able to give at that point in my day. I’m more of a fiction reader but I do like to concurrently read a nonfiction book and I add that in at night. I first checked it out on May 22 and here it is, June 29, and I’m 27% finished with it.

But I’m just not getting anywhere with this book. I’m so guilty of spending too much time on social media and the internet and everything else that tries (successfully) to steal my attention away from the here and now. Title: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

How to do nothing resisting the attention economy review