Forming ideas requires privacy and closure, not constant public sharing

Evidence

Taeyoon’s strategy echoes the findings of Barassi about the incubation time of activism. Just as activism requires strategic openness and closure, forming any idea requires a combination of privacy and sharing. But this restraint is difficult when it comes to commercial social media, whose persuasive design collapses context within our very thought processes themselves by assuming we should share our thoughts right now—indeed, that we have an obligation to form our thoughts in public! — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 587

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the mechanism behind the book’s core act of refusal: reshaping the conditions of thought by refusing constant public sharing.
• XREF: Connects to the culture-industry critique in Adorno and to the reader’s broader research on how attention is institutionally directed.