Thank you.About the Book "When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms for personal branding, and products to be monetized, nothing can be quite so radical as.doing nothing. Take a few minutes to help us out by answering a survey about your experience with this podcast! The team here is always looking for ways to improve, and we’d love to hear from all of you, but we’d particularly like to hear from those of you who listen to the podcast and do not use our companion app. (If you haven’t listened to that episode, go do it these two make a fascinating pairing.) In this conversation, Jenny and I talk about: letting go of our constant demand for productivity and learning to simply look around the thrilling phenomenon of observing something so deeply that you actually cease to understand it why moments of disgust, or even existential despair, can actually be quite instructive and how to divest from what she calls “the attention economy”–and where to reinvest instead.
She comes to the subject of time from a very different perspective than our guest on Monday, Ashley Willans. In her work, she is challenging what for many of us, myself included, is a deep-seated and sometimes subconscious reflex: to constantly optimize and constantly be “productive.” She is a Lecturer in the Stanford Department of Art and Art History and author of the bestseller How to Do Nothing, which just came out in paperback.
Enter Jenny Odell, who makes a very compelling case for truly… doing… nothing. In which case, sitting on the cushion can be very far from truly doing nothing. But, speaking from personal experience, it is very possible, especially for Type A people, to approach meditation with an agenda. For an audience of meditators (or aspiring meditators), the idea of doing nothing shouldn’t be foreign.
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