In Overdue, Oliver (@aelaineo) mentions the vast destruction that social media has done to our connections with each other and information. While providing this diagnosis, Oliver mentioned Jenny Odell's (@the_jennitaur) How to Do Nothing, a glorious book.

I spend too much time on the Twitter and don't really have much to show for it. Odell urges us to replace our rather shallow connections with social media with a deeper connection to place and people.

Odell makes several main points in the book:

A) Doing "nothing" and refusing is a great form of life and resistance.
B) Reclaiming our attention is a way to do "nothing" in the attention economy.
C) Removing your attention requires you to have a place to put it. You can change your habits of attention with art, nature, and the community around you.
D) There are many ways to continue to use technology to connect but refuse the attention economy.
E) Once we have placed our attention on something else, we can actually do something good for our communities with it.
F) Manifest Deconstruction: as overturning the legacy of misguided thinking about the economy that has caused the problems we are facing now such as the issues that are intertwined and emerge within public space, environmental politics, class, and race
G) Context Collapse: the flattening of multiple audiences into a single context

All of that sounds obvious, but the way Odell delivers this information is compelling.

How to Do Nothing is worth your time.