The Night Became a Score
For most healthy people, chasing a perfect sleep score produces the anxiety and insomnia it claims to cure: the accuracy gap, the nocebo loop, and the documented Rush University case of orthosomnia.
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wearables
You Should Have Caught That
Amazon's Bee and other memory wearables promise to catch stray commitments, but their deeper cost may be turning ordinary forgetting into proof that someone should have remembered.
Nothing to Do but Watch
A smart ring can catch pregnancy-shaped signals before a test, but its real cost is stranger: it hands you a true signal you can do nothing with, and turns the wait medicine cannot shorten into a nightly vigil.
What the Light Was For
Always-aware AI glasses promise better memory, but the darker bargain is what they take from bystanders: notice, refusal, and the ordinary mercy of fading from a stranger's mind.