Nothing functions strategically as necessary repair that enables action.

Evidence

The first tool has to do with repair. In such times as these, having recourse to periods of and spaces for “doing nothing” is of utmost importance, because without them we have no way to think, reflect, heal, and sustain ourselves—individually or collectively. There is a kind of nothing that’s necessary for, at the end of the day, doing something. When overstimulation has become a fact of life, I suggest that we reimagine #FOMO as #NOMO, the necessity of missing out, or if that bothers you, #NOSMO, the necessity of sometimes missing out. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 106

Categorization

• CANDY: The #FOMO to #NOMO/#NOSMO reframing is a light, immediately shareable coinage.
• XREF: connects to: Sufficiency locks in an outcome; necessity only enables the next step. — Georg Schreyögg and Jörg Sydow, The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence:…, 853; Path breaking minimally requires restoring an actual choice situation. — Jörg Sydow, Georg Schreyögg, and Jochen Koch, Organizational Path Dependence: Opening…, 101
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Sufficiency locks in an outcome; necessity only enables the next step. — Georg Schreyögg and Jörg Sydow, The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence:…, 853; Path breaking minimally requires restoring an actual choice situation. — Jörg Sydow, Georg Schreyögg, and Jochen Koch, Organizational Path Dependence: Opening…, 101