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preaching to the choir, everyone wants sleep

Yeah, this is like "people who are overweight: lose weight". Well gee I never thought of that before, I guess I'll go right out and do it. I certainly won't continue lying awake between 3-5am 2-4 times a week now that I know it's important. /s

There's no need to be cynical.

Out of all the health problems one might have, improving sleep is the easiest to fix with the biggest immediate benefits. Further, many issues people claim to have with sleep are self-inflicted, excuses, or solvable.

When you improve your sleep, you're not missing out on pleasures in a way a strict diet may rob you of the goodies in life. You don't sacrifice anything with better sleep.

> improving sleep is the easiest to fix with the biggest immediate benefit

Tell it to all the insomniacs.

> Out of all the health problems one might have, improving sleep is the easiest to fix

… when the sleep problem is internal. Dependents with their own sleep problems are not often dealt with easily.

Is this true now? I hope so. When I started my career 20 years ago, it was common for people to take pride in how little they slept. Sleeping 8 hours/day was treated as a weakness. I don't hear such silliness so much now, but it was unclear whether that's because times have changed or because I now spend my time with wiser people.

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