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What If Instead of Trying to Manage Your Time, You Set It Free? - The New York Times

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The cultural critic Jenny Odell sees a way out of our obsession with personal efficiency.

Share full article 284 We all understand, rationally anyway, that time never stops, moves in only one direction, is owned by no one and is impossible to make more of. Yet who among us hasn’t wished to manage it better, squeeze more out of it or wrest it away from others and get it under our own control? In her newest book, “Saving Time,” Jenny Odell, a visual artist and the author of the best-selling “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy,” argues that standard ways of thinking about time — particularly regarding work and what time is owed and to whom — can obscure potentially mor

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