How to Do Nothing: Resisting The Attention Economy | Jenny Odell | Talks at Google

[@christianthecopywriter]

Once people put down their judgement for her she is actually very smart, intelligent and correct with her research and observations

[@praguequietmusiccollective5240]

What judgement of her would that be? (Honest question.)

[@oliviaallen8975]

@@praguequietmusiccollective5240 a lot of people are judging her for giving this talk at Google. Which says to me they are just not at all understanding what she’s saying.

[@AudioPervert1]

Google itself a champion of late capitalism. A global dominator of Surveillance Data. The term "Economy Of Attention" is actually from early 1990s, used first by Franco Bifo Berardi. A mass murderer like Barack Obama (ex warmonkey of USA) also cited the book as great, as well as the New York Times. What a diabolic place America and it's tech is. Trust all these parties to talk about what is wrong with the internet today and serve the powers which own it. In essence, the book is great and F**K Google thru and thru.

[@Big_Dai]

"Submitting our leasure for numerical evaluation", that's a pretty good line

[@7amseel]

The most human talk I have ever listened!

[@NilSatis1983]

She’s an absolute star

[@AustenSummers]

Funniest title and channel combo of the year

[@preetsutariya1664]

Lmao

[@flyingspaghettimonster2925]

Absolutely

[@robeltadesse8370]

Was thinking the same

[@AudioPervert1]

Google itself a champion of late capitalism. A global dominator of Surveillance Data. The term "Economy Of Attention" is actually from early 1990s, used first by Franco Bifo Berardi. A mass murderer like Barack Obama (ex warmonkey of USA) also cited the book as great, as well as the New York Times. What a diabolic place America and it's tech is. Trust all these parties to talk about what is wrong with the internet today and serve the powers which own it. In essence, the book is great and F**K Google thru and thru.

[@james6881]

She makes some excellent points and her presentation of the issues is really refreshing and natural to hear.

[@mikailmaqsood818]

@16:41 'what was missing from that surreal and terrifying torrent of infomration and virtuality was any regard, any place for the human animal. Situated as she is in time and a physical environment woth outher human and non human entities ..it requires that groundedess requires actual ground'

[@renatoatore]

This talk makes me remember about Bartleby and the "I would prefer not to"

[@ian.mikyska.94]

She actually discusses that at length in the book. I recommend it.

[@marcusaurielius7237]

I pressed play on a 54 minute video explain how I shouldn’t. Hexed.

[@marcusaurielius7237]

Explaining*

[@oliviaallen8975]

These comments make me realize how few people are capable of nuanced thinking…..

[@molchaniazolotovacommunica9015]

Any example? The term sounds too #sophisticated In my experience "seeing the big picture" and not getting lost in minor nuances is a way more important to focus

[@joeldwest]

Yes, my X told me plainly that he expected me to work 20hrs a day. I was to be allowed only 4 hours of rest/sleep a day. Because he "could".

[@bettybeee]

I'm glad he's your ex.

[@ZachKopkaZake]

Holy shi#

[@edunlap6594]

Work 20hrs daily while he works...zero probably.

[@rickyrivera5489]

Jenny I love it. Thanks for sharing as I has made me reflect on life and it has help.

[@brendabailey6626]

10:37pm

[@heryr3011]

I was going to watch this but decided to just sit on the floor and stare at the wall for 55 minutes

[@agapon2023]

it was a pleasure listening to her

[@jurgenhuber4867]

Great talk. Great thoughts.

[@Extys]

lmao she's giving this talk at GOOGLE

[@jamesgreenldn]

The irony!

[@Extys]

@@jamesgreenldn It's like giving a talk promoting the vegan lifestyle at the local slaughterhouse. The people she's addressing are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year *precisely* thanks to Google having such a large market share of the attention economy.

[@emmagiering2509]

Perhaps she is trying to reorient the way software engineers think and design. By only giving talks to people who already gravitate to her work, she's limiting the impact of her life's work.

[@lkergjoieriojtgijteo]

@@Extys funny you should say that, a local slaughterhouse strikes me as the perfect place to promote a vegan lifestyle.

[@simeeeh]

Lol why not? People at google need to hear it the most..

[@oxherder9061]

The utter irony of giving this talk at Google…

[@oliviaallen8975]

Which goes perfectly into what the book is about and everything she just said. Which basically cancels out the irony. She’s well aware. It’s not about circumventing society entirely, as she states. It’s not about avoiding entirely any one given aspect of what she’s critiquing.

[@science-guy]

Nothing is impossible And I can do nothing(should I feel special)

[@ZachKopkaZake]

No she's telling you how to be lazy and be nothing. She's laughing so hard it's ridiculous

[@haru9369]

comment to examples till 28:00, a contemporary example can be duran adam from turkey in gezi protests

[@BuickGeek24]

And yeah, people should not tie their self worth to likes. People say it's unhealthy

[@pairadeau]

Excellent work. Bless.

[@migliaman]

Society dropped out of me to be honest!! .....it's fantastic to seek self awareness and do your own dang!!

[@delphiv4349]

23:18 Impossibility of retreat

[@reframingthenarrativetv]

Great vid

[@RobRobertRobbie]

Glad I watched this. I think Im less interested in the book

[@ZachKopkaZake]

Exactly she's basically full of shit.

[@AnimeshSharma1977]

Our country has a whole industry on the idea of the appearance of doing nothing since forever... #meditation ;)

[@lasagnasandwich8454]

This takes “when you’re a genius at something stupid” to a whole another level 😂

[@kiwitrainguy]

This video was 55 minutes long but if she didn't use the word "like" it would only be 45 minutes long.

[@souravash]

She's so sweet, I hardly noticed what she spoke! 😊

[@flyingspaghettimonster2925]

And yet this talk is happening at Google. What a corporate grift.

[@johnnyblackrants7625]

I hope someday we get one of these kinds of talks in the context of economics. How do we preserve the benefits of capitalism while avoiding the pitfalls. So often, it just feels like the speaker hasn't taken econ 101.

[@Mags.2024]

I just searched this cause I’m bored

[@barca4k746]

same hope you are better rn and me soon

[@francesbreen1973]

Okay content. Horrible presentation. Like listening to a teenager.

[@anidude98]

As it turns out I believe Ms. Odell *was* a teenager. So I think you may have something on your hands there!

[@u263a3]

Maybe this is what happens to people who do nothing

[@robert_trumpeteer]

Useless, just like meeee!!!

[@u263a3]

Do nothing, then get laid off at Google

[@Garspawnish]

How not to say “um” during a public speech?

[@tonyisnotdead]

Everyone does it

[@JH-ji6cj]

Does she not know that _silence=violence_ ?🤪🤦‍♂️

[@Eyesayah]

That not a winning way of talking with her hands, like Kamala. Much speaking. Being still while hoping for gain is the wrong effort according to various teachers. (With a view to having something valuable to say later). I'm all for recognizing that we are earthlings, and for honoring tradition; but it seems wrapped in decadence here.

[@alyssazadel151]

This talk was awful. Had a quiz on it for school wasted my time watching this 6 times. Cant believe this talk was at Google

[@alyssazadel151]

Farah my teacher said she was going to assign it, but ended up not doing it because when she read it she said it was so boring.

[@BuickGeek24]

@@alyssazadel151 How are you?

[@ZachKopkaZake]

Dude she got famous because of the machine she's railing against and then stands on her pedestal readily🤔✌️😊🤗 anybody else say it? Hypocrites