“SLEEP Cycle’s logo—a blocky, iconographized clock—looks like the icons for PHONE or TOILET on signs along highways, announcing the sleep-tracking service it offers as a basic need.”
“Only unspeaking, unthinking things require such brute proof they’re there.”
“Sleep Cycle promises sleepers they can be known, and it will know them better than they know themselves.”
“Apps extend a promise of connection and retract it.”
“We assume the solitudes of others are less structured than our own.”
“the object of the project doesn’t matter, only the fact of attempting a long project as a young adult to train one’s brain.”