How To Do Nothing.

This is an interesting book. Here's an introduction:

"Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. Drawing on the ethos of tech culture, a background in the arts, and personal storytelling, Jenny Odell makes a powerful argument for refusal: refusal to believe that our lives are instruments to be optimised."

Recording things. Researching things. Measuring things. Optimising things... Maybe, as Jenny Odell suggests, there's another way.