Making Sense of Time (Jenny Odell)
\u201cI guess for me the real tragedy is this idea of a life where you're getting\xa0further and further away from something meaningful or what you want and then just watching the time, like having to sell your time in which you do something meaningless. That's deeply horrifying to me. I mean, I know that is describing a lot of jobs and work, but I think a lot of this book is me kind of poking someone and being like, hey, don't you hate that? Like we shouldn't be okay with this. You know, because I think to some degree if you're in a situation like that, there are coping strategies, or you know, you're just kind of like, well, I can't really think about that because I just need to get through another day.\u201d\nSo says the brilliant Jenny Odell, the now two-time New York Times Bestselling author. In 2019, she came out with HOW TO DO NOTHING, a treatise on the attention economy. Her book landed right before COVID, offering wise and trenchant insight into what happened to all. This book captured my heart. And her follow-up\u2014SAVING TIME: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock continues the conversation, exploring the way we use our hours, whose hours count more, and what this looks like in the context of our ancient universe where time has a different measure.\xa0\n\nMORE FROM JENNY ODELL:\nSaving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock\nHow to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy\nInhabiting the Negative Space\nThe Bureau of Suspended Objects\nJenny Odell\u2019s Website\nFollow her On Instagram and Twitter\n \nTo learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy\n \n Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices