Watch and learn
I got a 78 on my sleep test last night, which feels about right.
The night before it was an 85 and that felt right too. That means that my new watch is dead-on at assessing what happens when I hit the pillow as well as dead-on with telling me the time and date so the number of dollars I paid for said watch have been justified.
I’ve always been a lover of stats, even though they never tell the entire story. When I wrote recaps for basketball games in college, there was the final score, but there was usually a key stat behind it. As a coach that was my focal point in the postgame talk.
We won by five points because we scored the last six points. But the reason we scored the last six points was because the opponents missed their last three shots and we blocked out and secured the rebound. So the most meaningful stat was less about the offense and more about playing through the entire defensive possession, not just until the shot.
Basketball stats used to be a big part of my life. Game recaps. Stats. Finding the meaning in the right numbers. Shooting percentages. Turnovers. Rebounds. Runs.
Now I’m scrolling through steps, floors, stress level and my sleep score. It seems at the same time responsible and kinda old. I am clearly in the gadget phase of my life. When I was a kid, I was excited to have a multitool that could do a bunch of cool stuff like cut and take out hooks. As an adult I’m stoked to have an electronic device that can do a bunch of cool stuff like count and tell me the weather.
I’m more excited than I should be about a gadget I bought myself on Black Friday. I didn’t even have the patience to wait until Christmas to open it. In fact, I nearly demanded we drive all the way into town to go to the post office and pick it up on Saturday night when I got the delivery confirmation email.
My rational wife suggested one day wouldn’t hurt and of course she was right…
