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I list these not to illicit your sympathy or to contribute to the cult of busyness, but rather to make the case that reading How to Do Nothing was not so much another project as a cry for self-help. I raced through the book when I had time, between hosting my parents over the holidays, reading two books for two separate book clubs and meeting the responsibilities of my day job as a freelance content creator. Naturally, in reading a book about How to Do Nothing, it seemed necessary for me to not read it simply for the pleasure of reading it, but to commit to a book review. A function of over-promising and under-delivering in a world obsessed with deliverables and results. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell caught my attention as someone who is anxious about not doing enough, while feeling I’ve overcommitted to too many things. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy.