App Validation

How the schmancy ring has validated my life's work

My sleep was garbage last night - I have an app that tells me so.

Ok, not garbage, and not just an app, but wow. I’m digging science this morning.

A year ago I stumbled upon an IG ad that suggested I might want to hack some aspect of my biometrics with a fancy, schmancy ring that’s more than an exercise-measuring bot and less than a wrist phone.

I looked into it, and was intrigued but not enough to take the plunge. It was expensive. I’m not an elite athlete, and I’m not trying to be one.

I don’t need an app to tell me how I slept last night, I’m painfully aware of my own exhaustion.

Over the months, their advertising shifted, and I finally met someone who has one of these things. Now it talks about heart rate variability, and the ability to predict when you’re coming down with something, or when your period might start, and the HRV is very interesting to me.