The Case Against Optimizing

Screw your morning routine.

My alarm goes off.

I hop (or roll) out of bed and saunter to the kitchen, where I begin to make my morning coffee.

But not without first opening my Oura ring app to check out last night’s “sleep stats.”

The Oura ring is a sleep-tracking device that I wear on my finger. Every morning, it tells me how long I slept, the quality of my sleep, and my “readiness”…