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Showing posts with label Jenny Odell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jenny Odell. Show all posts

Saturday, August 23, 2025

Saving Time: Life Beyond Productivity Culture

Explore Jenny Odell's Saving Time, a guide to living beyond the office clock and profit-driven routines. Discover practical ways to reclaim your time and find meaning outside work.

  • Saving Time challenges the way you experience time in daily life.

  • It asks you to imagine life outside work schedules, office hours, and profit-driven routines.

  • What if time could work for you instead of you working for it?

  • The book explores ways to “save” time by redefining your identity and purpose.

  • Odell shows that time can become a source of meaning, not stress.

Why this matters:

  • You can rethink your daily routines and priorities.

  • You can find ways to focus on what matters without chasing productivity.

  • Simple actions, like walking, observing, or creating, can help you reclaim time.

About the author:

  • Jenny Odell is a multidisciplinary artist and author.

  • Her first book, How to Do Nothing, was a New York Times bestseller.

  • She writes for The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Sierra magazine.

  • Odell lives and works in Oakland, California.