So a good friend of mine woke up the other day feeling pretty great, rested and clear-headed and ready for the day.

And then she did what many of us now do before our feet even hit the floor.

She rolled over, grabbed her phone, and checked her sleep score.

Her aura ring told her that she had actually slept poorly, low score, suboptimal recovery, do less today. And then

subsequently, she started to feel tired. The data was at odds with her subjective experience

of a good night's sleep. And this story served as the inspiration for today's episode.

Welcome to the commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno and you're listening to Is This Right for Me, the series where we slow down on the

protocols, wearables and supplements and therapies and treatments, flooding your Instagram feed

and ask the only question that matters, not whether something is in the zeitgeist or fashionable, but whether it's right for you.

I've done the reading as a citizen scientist, and I'll tell you where it led, and you decide.

And the question that I want to put to you up front is sharper than you might expect because sleep trackers, it turns out, don't just measure sleep.

They can change it.

They change how you feel when you wake up.

They change what you eat and win.

They change whether you go to the gym or call in sick.

They change for some people whether they can actually fall asleep at all. The device on your

finger or wrist turns out not to just be a passive instrument. It's an intervention. And the

question this episode is whether that intervention is right for you. I've worn a sleep tracker

for a few years, actually two, an aura ring and a whoop,

and I travel a lot. And as a denizen of middle age, I wake up in the middle of the night more

than I'd like. And at various points, I've genuinely sought a map of my unconscious life.

And the devices have showed me things. Some of it genuinely useful.

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