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

Top Channels

1
Fireship41 videos · 6.3h · 88%
2
Veritasium14 videos · 4.8h · 82%
3
ThePrimeagen28 videos · 4.3h · 74%
4
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell9 videos · 1.8h · 91%
5
Graham Stephan22 videos · 1.6h · 38%
6
MrBeast11 videos · 1h · 31%

The feed leaned on 5 channels for 61% of your watch time, out of 47 it put in front of you. 29 of them appeared exactly once. 3 first showed up in the last 30 days.

Time You Could Reclaim

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

94 videos84% avg completion15.2h watched

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

31 videos79% avg completion10.3h watched

You finish almost everything here, often in one sitting. These cluster heavily on weekends — the clearest sign of intentional, leisure-mode watching in your history.

Finance & Economics

47 videos61% avg completion8h watched

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

22 videos55% avg completion3.5h watched

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.

The Bait Rate

34%

Titles Built To Be Clicked

19% vs 71%

Finished · Bait vs Rest

Aimed at you: urgency-framed productivity and finance

Clicked, then quit

This ONE Habit Changed Everything (Not Clickbait)
You Won't Believe What Happened to My Portfolio
10 Productivity Hacks That Changed My Life
Reacting to My Old Videos (cringe warning)

A third of what the feed put in front of you was written to be opened, not watched — withheld payoffs, stacked punctuation, and promises of a shortcut. The split is stark: those titles hold you for 19% of their runtime, everything else for 71%. The feed is not reading your taste, it is reading your reflexes, and those two things point in different directions.

Measured from how the titles are written — shouting, withheld payoffs, listicles, stacked punctuation — across 142 of your videos. It reads style, not quality, and only in English.

What You Wanted vs What You Got

Your feed is half helping

You want YouTube to make you better at building things — and to stay out of the way while you do it.

Serving that

Programming and long-form course content is your highest-completion cluster and shows up reliably
Sunday sessions are long, uninterrupted, and land almost entirely on things you finish

Getting in the way

Roughly a third of what the feed offers you midweek is productivity and reaction content you bail on inside a minute
Finance videos that open as analysis and turn into pitches — you keep clicking, then leaving
The documentaries you finish almost never surface on a weekday, so building is a weekend-only activity by default

The feed has your interests roughly right and your intent completely wrong. It knows you like programming, so it serves you programming-adjacent bait — reaction videos about developers, productivity systems for developers — instead of more of the structured material you actually finish. The gap isn't discipline; it's that clicks and completions look identical to the algorithm, and only one of them is you.

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

Action mode

Do this today

0/4

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.

When You Watch

Sunday

Peak Day

By day of week

Your week has a clear shape: steady, snack-sized watching Monday through Thursday, a dip on Friday, then a Sunday spike that towers over everything else — nearly double any weekday. Sundays are also where your long-form completions concentrate; the weekday minutes are mostly quick technical look-ups.

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.
Sundays 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?
Sundays look like your most intentional watching. What's different about that day 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?