{"id":12960,"date":"2025-12-23T23:28:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/?p=12960"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:28:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:28:46","slug":"how-to-do-nothing-resisting-the-attention-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2025\/12\/23\/how-to-do-nothing-resisting-the-attention-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcda How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" 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The arguments and observations I\u2019ll make here are not neat, interlocking parts in a logical whole. Rather, I saw and experienced many things during the course of writing it\u2014things that changed my mind and then changed it again, and which I folded in as I went. I came out of this book different than I went in. So, consider this not a closed transmission of information, but instead an open and extended essay, in the original sense of the word (a journey, an essaying forth). It\u2019s less a lecture than an invitation to take a walk.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s how it felt as I read it. \u2018Doing nothing\u2019 is defined by the author as disengaging from the attention economy, and there are some profound reflections here. As I read the book, I found myself consciously trying to be more aware of my surroundings, and particularly the people within them. I had the feeling that I had stopped noticing everyday things, and just through reading about the author\u2019s experiences I felt more tuned into them. Which is exactly what she described happening to herself on a number of occasions as she wrote the book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Last week, after a meeting, I took the F streetcar from Civic Center to the Ferry Building in San Francisco. It\u2019s a notoriously slow, crowded, and halting route, especially in the middle of the day. This pace, added to my window seat, gave me a chance to look at the many faces of the people on Market Street with the same alienation as the slow scroll of Hockney\u2019s Yorkshire Landscapes. Once I accepted the fact that each face I looked at (and I tried to look at each of them) was associated with an entire life\u2014of birth, of childhood, of dreams and disappointments, of a universe of anxieties, hopes, grudges, and regrets totally distinct from mine\u2014this slow scene became almost impossibly absorbing. As Hockney said: \u201cThere\u2019s a lot to look at.\u201d Even though I\u2019ve lived in a city most of my adult life, in that moment I was floored by the density of life experience folded into a single city street.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Odell has also got me thinking about the crazy level of context-switching within a social media feed. It keeps things trivial and without any depth:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>For example, let\u2019s take a look at my Twitter feed right now, as I\u2019m sitting inside my studio in Oakland in the summer of 2018. Pressed up against each other in neat rectangles, I see the following:<\/p><ul>\n\t<li>An article on Al Jazeera by a woman whose cousin was killed at school by ISIL<\/li>\n\t<li>An article about the Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar last year<\/li>\n\t<li>An announcement that @dasharez\u00f8ne (a joke account) is selling new T-shirts<\/li>\n\t<li>Someone arguing for congestion pricing in Santa Monica, California<\/li>\n\t<li>Someone wishing happy birthday to former NASA worker Katherine Johnson<\/li>\n\t<li>A video of NBC announcing the death of Senator McCain and shortly afterward cutting to people dressed as dolphins appearing to masturbate onstage<\/li>\n\t<li>Photos of Yogi Bear mascot statues dumped in a forest<\/li>\n\t<li>A job alert for director of the landscape architecture program at Morgan State University<\/li>\n\t<li>An article on protests as the Pope visits Dublin<\/li>\n\t<li>A photo of a yet another fire erupting, this time in the Santa Ana Mountains<\/li>\n\t<li>Someone\u2019s data visualization of his daughter\u2019s sleeping habits during her first year<\/li>\n\t<li>A plug for someone\u2019s upcoming book about the anarchist scene in Chicago<\/li>\n\t<li>An Apple ad for Music Lab, starring Florence Welch<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p>Spatial and temporal context both have to do with the neighboring entities around something that help define it. Context also helps establish the order of events. Obviously, the bits of information we\u2019re assailed with on Twitter and Facebook feeds are missing both of these kinds of context. Scrolling through the feed, I can\u2019t help but wonder: What am I supposed to think of all this? How am I supposed to think of all this? I imagine different parts of my brain lighting up in a pattern that doesn\u2019t make sense, that forecloses any possible understanding. Many things in there seem important, but the sum total is nonsense, and it produces not understanding but a dull and stupefying dread.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I can\u2019t remember the last time that a book had such an impact on my everyday existence, making me take stock of my approach to the things I consume and how I behave as I go throughout my day. I am not sure how much I <em>want<\/em> to radically change \u2014 I\u2019m not about to stop listing to podcasts as I wander \u2014 but it has made me more aware of what I\u2019m doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Serendipitously, as I read the book I also came across <a href=\"https:\/\/sive.rs\/about\" title=\"Derek Sivers: About\">Derek Sivers\u2019 <em>About<\/em> page<\/a> where he writes about his approach to how he spends his time, which felt as though it made a connection Odell\u2019s writing. He says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>I hate to waste a single hour.&nbsp;<\/strong>I feel the precious value of time, most of the time. I imagine my time as worth $1000 an hour, and ask myself what\u2019s worth $1000. Watching a TV show? Absolutely not. (\u201cGame of Thrones\u201d was 70 hours, so would have cost $70,000 to watch.) Social media? Absolutely not. Focused learning or creating? Yep! Being with my kid? Always.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t think I will ever be able to take the same approach. I do like some downtime, where I am enjoying things just because I enjoy them, and seem to get a good balance between being productive and recharging my batteries. Watching TV with my wife is a thing we\u2019ve grown into doing together and I love it, so I\u2019m not going to give that up. But I do understand and agree with the sentiment. Life is too short to spend on things that don\u2019t bring you joy or, in your own opinion, are a waste of time. And your time and attention are exactly what the modern \u2018social media\u2019 platforms are tuned to exploit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"787\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DraggedImage-3.png\" class=\"wp-image-12959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DraggedImage-3.png 1400w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DraggedImage-3-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DraggedImage-3-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DraggedImage-3-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DraggedImage-3-700x394.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2025\/12\/23\/how-to-do-nothing-resisting-the-attention-economy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to \ud83d\udcda How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy\"><div class='e-content p-summary'>Finished reading How to Do Nothing: Resisting The Attention Economy by Jenny Odell. Early in the book the author herself says that: \u2026you\u2019ll find that this book is a bit oddly shaped. The arguments and observations I\u2019ll make here are not neat, interlocking parts in a logical whole. Rather, I saw and experienced many things [&hellip;]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12662,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2025\/11\/02\/12662\/","url_meta":{"origin":12960,"position":0},"title":"\ud83d\udcda Finished reading The Secret\u2026","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"2 November 2025","format":"status","excerpt":"\ud83d\udcda Finished reading The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955\u20131979). 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Things have suddenly turned very cold here in the UK. It\u2019s feeling dark and wintry. This was a week in which I: Had the weekly call with our audio-visual design company and agreed the design change to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weeknotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weeknotes","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/category\/weeknotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"\u201cIn 2008, employees at an office for the accounting firm Deloitte were troubled by the behavior of a new recruit. In the midst of a bustling work environment, she didn't seem to be doing anything except sitting at an empty desk and staring into space. Whenever someone would ask what she was doing, she would reply that she was \"doing thought work\" or \"working on [her] thesis.\" Then there was the day that she spent riding the elevators up and down repeatedly. When a coworker saw this and asked if she was \"thinking again,\" she replied: \"It helps to see things from a different perspective.\" The employees became uneasy. Urgent inter-office emails were sent. It turned out that the staff had unwittingly taken part in a performance piece called The Trainee. 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