meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
We Have Concerns

The Guilt of the Netflix Queue

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

News, Science, Society & Culture, Culture, Comedy, Internet, Pop, Games, Gadgets

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2014

⏱️ 25 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A new study proves we rarely finish the books we start. Our Netflix queues are full of deep, intelligent films that we never watch- why is it so hard to stick to what's good for us? The Bestsellers on Amazon that go unread: http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-summers-most-unread-book-is-1404417569

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.