This Is Your Brain on Online Shopping
Note to Self
WNYC Studios
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2015
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Manoush visits Etsy's Usability Lab to figure out why she might buy six sweaters she never wears.
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| 0:00.0 | One thing reminds me that I need another thing, which reminds me that I need another thing, |
| 0:04.2 | and then I feel overwhelmed and can't breathe. |
| 0:06.7 | So I'm taking deep breaths right now. |
| 0:09.0 | Oh! |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:11.0 | So sorry. |
| 0:12.0 | No, it happens. |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm a new summer Odie, and this is WNYC's Note To Self. |
| 0:22.0 | We've had moral panics about new technologies for centuries. |
| 0:26.0 | Shouldn't just encourage growth to code so they can make shopping websites. |
| 0:30.0 | The show where you and I find balance in the digital age. |
| 0:34.0 | They're scrolling. |
| 0:36.0 | They're just scrolling away. |
| 0:38.0 | And figure out how to manage modern life. |
| 0:44.0 | Something we talk about a lot on this show is how technology helps us, or doesn't help us, |
| 0:51.0 | you know, to just live our lives, to do stuff. |
| 0:54.0 | You take it very personally when an app doesn't work, or you can't figure out where you're supposed to pay your bill online, |
| 1:03.0 | or you click on something and it doesn't go where you thought it was going to take you. |
| 1:07.0 | That's a win. |
| 1:08.0 | I thought I was in charge of racing. |
| 1:10.0 | That's what that says. |
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