COLLEGE 101 students are required to read Jenny Odell’s best-selling book “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy” from this year’s Three Books program. An artist, writer and Stanford ...

Coming from an author with so many descriptors—Stanford professor, artist, birdwatcher, archivist—Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing may give the illusion of contradiction when it comes to its creator.

Life is full. Our calendars are jam-packed, our to-do lists are never-ending, and many of us are running on empty. We move through our days on autopilot, hopping from one responsibility to the next, ...

One of the toughest things in these lockdown days is coming to terms with doing nothing. I feel like I’ve exhausted myself simply by doing nothing. Sure, this period is a chance for introspection, to ...