Ep115 - Jenny Odell | How To Do Nothing: Resisting The Attention Economy

This episode features Oakland-based artist and writer Jenny Odell, as she discusses her debut book "How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy". Jenny examines how, by paying a new kind of attention - our most precious and overdrawn resource - we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.  

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