The Journal.
Every essay, review, field note, and interview we've published. New pieces arrive on Tuesdays; full issues close every three months.
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.
Portable CPAP Devices and the Nights You Don't Pack Them
Sixty-five percent of CPAP users say the size of their machine keeps them from traveling with it. That figure has been attached to portable CPAP devices since 2017, when ResMed announced the AirMini…
Six Weeks With the Garmin Cirqa: Testing the Rule About Subscription Wearables
The advice arrives on schedule every time a fitness company announces a paid tier, and it is easy to repeat: never buy a wearable whose useful features sit behind a subscription. Own the hardware.
The Garmin Cirqa and the Screenless-Tracker Myth: Six Weeks, 42 Nights, One Caffeine Log
The Garmin Cirqa arrived in a padded envelope thin enough to go through the letter slot, which is the first honest thing about it.
Sleep Hygiene, Taken Literally: How Often Do You Actually Have to Wash Your Sheets?
The number gets recycled every summer: the average person washes their sheets every 24 days. It comes from a mattress-brand survey, not a laboratory, and it has mostly been doing work it was never…
One Late Espresso, Four Dashboards: What the TrainingPeaks Acquisition Reveals About Garmin Ecosystem Strategy
At 16:10 on a Tuesday I pulled a double — 18 g in, 36 g out, somewhere near 170 mg by the roaster's own stated figure — and then spent the night as an unpaid test subject for Garmin ecosystem…
Smartwatch Deals vs My Coffee Cutoff: Sixty Nights With Four Budget Trackers
Every second week an Australian deal newsletter drops a fitness tracker at forty percent off, and every second week I nearly buy it. In March I stopped nearly and bought four.
A 45-Night Sleep Tech Review: Masking Earbuds vs. Foam, and the Thin History of the 3 A.M. Wake-Up
Across forty-five nights I logged twenty-one mid-night wake-ups. The median clock time was 3:07 a.m. That number is the only reason I ran this sleep tech review at all, and by the end of it the number…
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 Pixel Watch 5's RAM Upgrade Is Real. It Won't Fix Your Sleep Data.
A line of metadata in a Play Console listing is a strange place to find hope, but that's where this one turned up.