- Interesting use of the title "Big Mother," as the author reveals she is a childless journalist

- First thing she does every morning is take her phone and checks her sleep stats

- She relies on her SleepCycle app and takes screenshots of her stats, hovering so self-righteously over eight hours a night, and sends them to friends; earlier this fall, she Instagrammed a "particularly impressive" 10 hours

- Her stats are "gospel" to her, even if she says she "cheats" sometimes by not tracking her non-sleep days

- She goes on to describe her time at a "Quantified-Self" convention

- Overall, the author seemed too reliant on her sleep tech and came off as arrogant