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How Author Jenny Odell Discovered a Life Beyond the Clock

2023/4/2
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Today, we’re joined by writer and artist Jenny Odell! At the top, we discuss the recent legislation regulating social media in Utah (4:02), how these platforms affect our perception of daily life (5:20), and the relationship between time and power Odell unpacks in her first book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (6:41). Then, we talk about ‘productivity bros’) (13:05), our culture of self-optimization (16:35), and the social inequities that shape our relationships to time (20:31).

On the back-half, we walk through Odell’s tools to help experience time (34:47), a historic picture of today’s home office (38:22), the systemic reform she hopes to see in the US (42:15), and to close, the ways she’s grown since completing hew new book *Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock *(49:30).

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