Rolling 90-day windows across the high-confidence portion of the watch history.
Intellectual range with visible rhythm
Curiosity velocity frames YouTube history as an alternation between exploration, convergence, deep dives, and deliberate pivots rather than random topic hopping.
Sustained concentration, longer runs, and lower entropy.
Sharp switches after concentrated focus periods.
Earlier themes resurfacing after a meaningful gap.
Wide topical spread, fast switching, and low single-topic dominance.
34% average topical coverage.
Deepest concentration: Deep dive
Jul 2022
Focus share reached 49% with average same-topic runs of 2.4 events.
Broadest range: Broad exploration
Mar 2025
Entropy hit 0.90 with switching at 68% of adjacent events.
Most visible pivot: Domain pivot
Apr 2022
A concentrated streak gives way to a sharper topical jump than the surrounding months.
Broad range, then convergence, then deliberate pivots
Loading the ribbon timeline and phase strip.
Phase changes worth reading as a story
A sharp rotation after a focused period, usually into a different topical cluster.
Neither scattered nor locked in; multiple lines of inquiry coexist.
Neither scattered nor locked in; multiple lines of inquiry coexist.
Curiosity starts to converge as one line of inquiry gains share.
Wide topical spread, fast switching, and low single-topic dominance.
Neither scattered nor locked in; multiple lines of inquiry coexist.
Sustained concentration, longer runs, and lower entropy.