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Jenny Odell, author of “How to Do Nothing,” on resisting the attention economy | Dropbox Blog

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Jenny Odell lives in the Bay area. She teaches at Stanford. She’s a digital artist. And she’s obsessed with the in between.

Jenny Odell lives in the Bay area. She teaches at Stanford. She’s a digital artist. And she’s obsessed with the in-between. Filed under Work Culture But if you ask the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy what has her attention right now she will tell you she’s reading a lot about time. That she’s all about using the iNaturalist app on her phone to identify plants. That even someplace like the Bay area has seasons, if you’re paying attention, “Just things like when the trees have acorns, when they have flowers or even when certain birds are in town and when they're not.

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