Dan Moore and welcome to the show. I'm sure you can hear it. I have a cold.

You and Frank Sinatra. Yes. And I do not mean to complain. I have had, it's been quite a

quite a September and October for me personally, but the cold is the least of my problems.

But when you're a podcaster, it really sucks. It's kind of a, it's a, you got to play well hurt. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, but when I'm writing, it's like one of the many things I prefer about writing. I mean, I always say, number one, you don't need to take a shower. Right. Some people find it, it helps not to take a shower. You kind of marinate a little bit. Right. And I still do an audio-only, no-video podcast. So, as you can tell, my hair is disheveled. It is, I have not had a shower yet today. But your voice, you can't help. Yeah, can't do anything about that. The other thing, I use underscores Sleep Plus Plus app for sleep analysis, and I've been wearing Apple Watch to sleep not religiously

it's like I because I don't want to get obsessive about having a sleep score for every night yeah

but my last two nights have the sleep score from sleep plus plus has been absolutely abysmal. And I should look actually

at Apple because Apple is giving a sleep score now too. Yeah, I actually have started doing this in the last

month or so. I actually have a second Apple watch because my main watch is a Series 7 and it does not

last the day, much less overnight. But I happen to have another watch that's a series 10, that's a loner. And so I've been using that for sleep tracking. And I think what's fascinating, I've been using the Apple sleep tracking one. And I feel like the Apple sleep tracking one is more optimistic. The rates are almost always higher. And I feel good. Like, no matter what, maybe there's a placebo effect. It's like, I wake up. I feel kind of, oh, man, I'm still kind of tired. I look at the sleep score. It's like, you got a 90. I was like, oh, great. And I sometimes look at sleep plus, plus. And it's, you got a 40. And I was like, geez. Yeah, I'm seeing the same thing. I feel like underscore is like,

I can't tell if he's just there to be like, let me bring you back down to Earth or what the

difference in their algorithms are, but they clearly have different approaches to that. So.

Yeah, Apple gave me yesterday a 79 high and today a 65 okay.

Okay.

But sleep plus plus and I, the cold really hit me Wednesday night.

Sleep Plus Plus gave me a 20 out of 100 yesterday and a 35 out of 100 today.

So yesterday was all the way into red.

Mine says 15 on Sleep Plus Plus for last night. And I was like, I don't think I slept that badly. So I don't know what's happening there. But yeah. Well, anyway, I feel all right though. And it is

funny, though, to be able to measure it with a cold because I felt like, well,

like my fear is that I'm going to be waking up all night, like stuffy waking up. And I kind of slept straight through and I think, well, that's good. And then I look at these numbers and I'm like,

well. I think it, it sort of exemplifies the limits of a lot of these health tracking things,

which is that does it, does it matter? Does it matter if your score isn't good, if you feel fine? I mean, I guess it's, it's reminding you your inching ever closer to the abyss. So there's that, but I don't know that that actually helps anybody. Maybe. Maybe some people.

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