Philosophical
What if doing nothing is the most productive thing you can do?
Every app, every system, every life hack assumes the same thing: that the goal is to do more. More tasks. More output. More life squeezed from every hour. But what if that assumption is the problem?
Nothing is harder to do than nothing.— Jenny Odell
The full breakdown — the context, the shift, and a question to sit with — opens in the Insights app.
The thinker
Artist & Attention Researcher
Jenny Odell is an American artist, writer, and Stanford lecturer, best known for her book 'How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy.'
Based on Jenny Odell: How to Do Nothing — Talks at Google, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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