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🗓️ 14 July 2014
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm not a fan of the music. |
0:16.0 | Do you feel like you kind of got locked in your favorite game? |
0:20.6 | I don't think I can make it have a favorite movie or favorite game that has come out in the last five years. |
0:25.7 | I feel like I got locked into what my favorite things are around the time when you start thinking about what your favorite things are first. |
0:31.7 | And it's hard for me to go, well, I love something so much now that it usurps one of my old favorites. |
0:40.7 | Do you know what I'm saying? |
0:41.7 | I do. This is we have concerns, by the way. Hi, Jeff Canada. |
0:44.7 | Oh, hi, Anthony Carboney. |
0:45.7 | What brought us to this? Why are we talking about this? |
0:48.7 | Well, I saw this article on Gismoto where this woman, Dr. Jordan Ellenberg, |
0:54.7 | oh, maybe it's a man. I guess Jordan can be either. |
0:57.7 | It came up with this way of figuring out what the most started but not finished books are on Amazon. |
1:09.7 | Okay. |
1:10.7 | So she came up with this kind of weird way of doing it where she indexed the passages that people highlighted most. |
1:17.7 | Yeah, they went through like good reads in the Kindle site exactly like that. |
1:20.7 | So she looked at the areas from the book that those came from and if they were weighted in the first few chapters and not proportionate throughout the book. |
1:29.7 | So already, I love this study, but already I have a problem with the way the data was collected. |
1:34.7 | I agree with you. |
1:35.7 | I start off any new book highlighting and highlighting and highlighting and highlighting. |
1:40.7 | And then your highlighter goes dry. |
1:41.7 | And then my digital highlighter on my Kindle goes dry. |
1:44.7 | No, then I just sort of fall into the rhythm of reading. |
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