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"How to do nothing" by Jenny Odell is such a great book. Probably not for the usual reader of Hacker News, but I strongly recommend it to anyone who also starts to feel the fake "productivity" pressure imposed by the attention economy.

Also worth checking more about Jenny Odell's other projects, like The Bureau of Suspended Objects (https://www.jennyodell.com/bso-cjm.html)

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Indeed, although I would add to clarify that it's not about "digital detoxing" or something for increased productivity, but rather more philosophical, more of a discourse.

In that vein, I'd also recommend another of hers, "Saving Time," which is (quietly?) incredibly radical. Personally, I found it the better of the two, with more of a focused narrative.

I agree. I bought the book twice. Bought a paper copy, read it and gave it to a family member. Recently I bought it again on Libro.fm as an audio book.

Yeah, I also have the paper and the audio versions. I did not like the narrator in the audiobook too much, I wish she had narrated it herself.

I have an Audible membership, they've seemingly given it to me as some sort of free inclusion with the membership, if that's useful to anyone else in the same boat.

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