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Re:Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately? by shanusmagnus on Thursday August 17, 2023 @09:46AM (#37161487)
Obligatory critique about Why We Sleep, in case you haven't seen it.

https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

Re:Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately? by JacobDotVI on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:09AM (#37161831)
Guzey updated changed his mind on this topic: https://guzey.com/2022-lessons/#get-minimum-possible-sustain...

It's unfortunate that he hasn't added a disclaimer to the original post since it is shared so widely.

EDIT: fixing autocorrect

Re:Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately? by randysalami on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:12AM (#37161876)
Wow it’s crazy how he didn’t add a disclaimer to his original post.

EDIT: Did he really change his mind? Still seems like he thinks that book is pseudoscience, just that sleep is more important than he originally gave it credit for.

Re:Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately? by rishikeshs on Friday August 18, 2023 @12:15AM (#37171342)
I think he changed this perspective on sleep as a whole, but the factual errors in Matt Walker’s book remains there.
Re:Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately? by criddell on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:33AM (#37162260)
In fairness, you should probably also link Walker's response to Guzey and others.

Some of the criticism he rebuts and some he accepts and says he will deal with it in a future version of the book.

Re:Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately? by shanusmagnus on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:13PM (#37167301)
Would happily have done so, but didn't know that it existed. Is this what you're thinking of?

https://sleepdiplomat.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/why-we-sleep-...

Re:Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately? by slothtrop on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:09PM (#37163882)