My instant pot did the same thing with a skeptical uncle and pulled jackfruit. He's totally converted now.

Reading this worries me. @kareng20's point about life insurance denial shows how bad it can get.

Man, my buddy Tom was exactly like that. He'd corner you at parties and explain his whole take on movie endings like it was a college class. People literally hid from him when they saw him coming. The day he finally just asked "what did you think about it?" instead of launching into his speech, you could see the whole room relax. He basically had to rebuild every chat from the ground up after those years.

Those autonomous routing algorithms take real skill to write too, around 300,000 lines of code in some cases. The programmer's craft is just as valid as the driver's feel for the road. Both eras demanded expertise, just applied differently.

Actually, what's missed is how these apps train us to distrust our own bodily signals over time. We start ignoring feelings of tiredness or alertness because the app says we slept poorly, creating a feedback loop where natural intuition gets replaced by data. This dependency means we can't sleep without the validation of a score, which is terrifying when you think about it. Over time, this erodes the basic self-awareness that humans have relied on for millennia. The apps aren't just tracking sleep, they're actively rewiring our relationship with rest itself. And that's a much deeper corrosion than simple anxiety over metrics.