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>The strongest example of the usefulness of this for me so far has been the effect of moderate alcohol consumption on the quality of my sleep. I am far more res

>The strongest example of the usefulness of this for me so far has been the effect of moderate alcohol consumption on the quality of my sleep. I am far more restless and get much poorer sleep after drinking just 1-2 beers on a full stomach. I'm curious, did you not notice this before? I have an MS Band, but the sleep tracking seems similar to the new Fitbit tracking. It did give me some concrete data on how drinking affects my sleep, but that data wasn't really valuable because I already knew that drinking too much or too late would have a negative impact on my sleep because I felt tired the next morning.

OrwellianChild 9y ago
For me, it was the difference between assumptions/inferences and repeatable measurements... Being typically human, I was able to be unobservant, post-rationalize my poor sleep, believe I still had the drinking constitution of a 20-year-old, and otherwise ignore the effects. Having months of daily Fitbit records that I could look back on well after I forgot about my "rough morning" the following day drove the point home as only hard data could.