![]() ![]() Years ago at Stanford, I would notice that if I was walking to class, no matter how stressed I was, birds were the one thing that could cut through that no matter what. It’s also a very present perspective – the bad kind of presence, being very wrapped up in whatever is happening right now, or what everyone is talking about on Twitter. ![]() And it ties into this idea that everything is a machine, and it just needs to be fixed, or made more efficient. Anything that detracts from that is too expensive, from the time-is-money perspective. It’s this perspective in which time is money, and you should have something to show for your time – either getting work done, or self-improvement, which I would still count as work. Where is our perspective stuck right now? What is the attention economy? Your book encourages a broad shift in perspective. The stakes, she argues, are high: “In a time that demands action, distraction appears to be a life-and-death matter.” Odell acknowledges that participating in this system is, for most people, not optional, and the book is dotted with examples of standing against the tide while remaining more-or-less in it – artists, labor movements, Oakland’s last old-growth redwood tree. ![]()
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