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Jenny Odell


Jenny Odell is a multi-disciplinary artist and author. Her first book was the New York Times Bestseller, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, New York Times, Sierra Magazine, and more. She lives in Oakland, California.

Books by Jenny Odell

Saving Time

An original, life-affirming book that reshapes our relationship with time from the bestselling author of How to Do Nothing

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Inhabiting the Negative Space

A hopeful meditation on how periods of inactivity become reimagined as fertile spaces for design and how we might use this strange moment in history.

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