The Takeaway
You click on shortcuts and stories, but you only finish the things that respect your time — and the gap between the two is costing you about a workday a month.
Your Profile
The Selective Deep-Diver
You don't watch YouTube — you study it. When something catches your eye you go all the way in: full videos, follow-up rabbit holes, the comment section. But you're ruthless about what earns that attention. Most things get 40 seconds and a back-button. The algorithm keeps showing you more of what you half-watched; you keep proving it wrong.
Selective
Viewing Style
39h
Time Watched
71%
Avg Completion
Time You Could Reclaim
8h
on 142 videos you abandoned early
≈ a full work day
You started 142 videos in the last 90 days and bailed within the first minute — but not before they ate roughly 8 hours of your attention in clicks, loads, and 30-second auditions. That's a full work day spent deciding things weren't worth watching.
Interest Clusters
Software & Programming
This is your real home base. High completion, long sessions, and you regularly rewatch segments — a pattern that only shows up for content you're actively learning from, not passively consuming.
Documentary & Long-form Essays
You finish almost everything here, often in one sitting. These appear mostly on weekends, clustered in the evening — the clearest sign of intentional, leisure-mode watching in your history.
Finance & Economics
Mixed signals: strong starts, middling completion. You're drawn in by thumbnails and titles but frequently bail when the video turns into a sales pitch or padded explainer. You want the insight, not the 20-minute windup.
Music & Performances
Short bursts — you play something, decide within a minute whether it's worth staying, and move on. This cluster is the most unpredictable in your history: the completions are either 15% or 95%, almost nothing in between.
Attention Gap
Clicked but abandoned
- 10 Productivity Hacks That Changed My Life
- I Tried the Billionaire Morning Routine for 30 Days
- Why I Quit My 6-Figure Job (Story Time)
- Reacting to My Old Videos (cringe warning)
- Unboxing the $3,000 Studio Setup
Quietly devoted
- The Forgotten History of Operating Systems
- How Compilers Work — Full Course
- An Honest Look at Index Funds After 10 Years
- Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
- How to Build a Habit That Actually Sticks
There's a clear pattern here: you click on things that promise a shortcut or a story, and you finish things that respect your time. The abandoned list skews toward lifestyle and reaction content; the devoted list is almost all structured knowledge. Your actual preferences and your click behavior are quietly at war.
Retrain Your Algorithm
Pushed on you (you bail)
- Productivity and 'morning routine' lifestyle content — you abandon 85% of it within a minute
- Reaction and 'story time' videos — high click rate, near-zero completion
- Finance hype ('Money Is About To Be Worthless') — you bail the moment it turns into a pitch
Starved of (you finish)
- Long-form structured courses and documentaries — your highest completion, but a small slice of your feed
- Calm, single-topic explainers that don't pad the runtime
Do this today
- Hit 'Not interested' on the next three productivity/morning-routine videos in your feed — you almost never finish them and they're crowding out what you do.
- Use 'Don't recommend this channel' on the reaction/story-time creators you keep abandoning.
- When a finance video turns into a sales pitch, use 'Not interested' rather than just closing it — closing teaches the feed nothing.
- Like and add to a playlist the long-form courses you finish, so the algorithm learns to surface more of them.
Your feed is optimizing for your clicks, not your attention — so it keeps serving shortcuts and reactions you bail on while under-serving the structured, long-form content you actually finish. A week of deliberate 'Not interested' taps on the abandoned categories will measurably shift what shows up.
Surprises
- You've watched over 38 hours of programming content in 90 days — that's more than most people spend on Netflix in a month.
- Your average session length is 47 minutes, but your median is only 9. A handful of long weekend sessions are pulling the mean way up.
- You watched the same video about system design twice in the same week, five weeks apart. Your history suggests you were working on something both times.
- Despite Finance being your third-biggest cluster by video count, it ranks last in total minutes — you open a lot, finish very few.
- Sunday evenings are dramatically different from the rest of your week: longer videos, higher completion, almost no channel-hopping.
Questions worth sitting with
- You keep starting finance videos and stopping — is it the content format you dislike, or is there something about those topics you're not ready to sit with yet?
- Your 'quietly devoted' list is almost entirely structured learning. What would it mean to apply that same standard to what you click on in the first place?
- Sunday evenings look like your most intentional watching. What's different about that time that the rest of the week isn't?
- If you had to delete one of your four interest clusters entirely, which would it be — and what would you actually miss about it?