Claire Munroe
I Logged Mattress Deals Every Sunday for Six Months. Here's What Labor Day Was Actually Worth.
Every August I start opening tabs. This year I kept them. From the first Sunday in March through Labor Day weekend I logged the queen-size price of five mattresses once a week — 27 Sundays…
The Most Useful Sleep Feature on Garmin Smartwatches Is the Flashlight
The most useful sleep feature on Garmin smartwatches is not the sleep score, the overnight HRV chart, or the cheerful morning report that grades your night out of a hundred.
The 3.1 dB Number: What Budget Open Earbuds Actually Take From Your Ears
Three pairs of budget open earbuds, £27.99 to £39.99, a £22 handheld sound level meter that claims class 2 accuracy and probably isn't, and a recording of a friend reading three-digit numbers aloud.
20,000mm: What the Number on Waterproof Jackets Actually Measures — and What It Quietly Leaves Out
The swing tag said 20,000mm, and for most of last autumn I let that figure do my thinking for me. It is the number that sells waterproof jackets — bolded in product copy, printed on hang tags, quietly…
PAP Device Market Sizing and CAGR Projections: Why the Headline Numbers Disagree by a Factor of Two
Start with the claim, then spend the rest of this earning it: the positive airway pressure business is not primarily a device business.
The ResMed Financial Guidance Miss Is Not a GLP-1 Story
Every quarter ResMed reports, the stock moves, and the market reaches for the same explanation. Last week's print was a clean version of the ritual: an earnings beat, a soft top-line outlook, and…
Can You Buy Your Way Out of Sleep Inertia? Nine Weeks, $612 of Hardware, One Very Tired Test Subject
Here's the question, asked the way I actually asked it — 6:40 a.m., mug in hand, no memory of having filled it: can you buy your way out of sleep inertia? Not fix your sleep. Fix the hour after it.
Sleep Score 61: What Fitness Trackers and Wearables Do to an Anxious Mind
At 3:40 on a Tuesday afternoon I drank twelve ounces of cold brew — call it 200 mg of caffeine, though nobody behind the counter could have given me the real number. I went to bed at 11:15.
The Classified Listing Said "Works Great": What a Used CPAP Machine Can and Can't Tell You
I bought a $29 pulse oximeter because of a classified listing. Three lines in the county swap column, sitting between a chainsaw and a load of seasoned oak: CPAP/BIPAP machine. Works great. $150.