A review by booktrotting
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker

informative slow-paced

3.0

Matthew, bestie, please say sike.

Sufficiently terrifying in depth look into how we’re all slowly killing ourselves through lack of sleep which will keep me up at night. This study is super thorough, systematically going through all the ways sleep starvation is damaging our health. Most of it was super interesting, though after a while the relentless misery of it all means that it all becomes rather predictable.

I am in two minds about the weird lurch this takes in the latter chapters towards how big business can further profit off its workers by allowing them to sleep more, actually. I can’t decide if he actually is advocating for this or is appealing to the sheer greed of capitalists to covertly advocate for the rights of the worker to rest.