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RESTLESS: The Crisis in Modern Sleep
The Crisis in Modern SleepA groundbreaking investigation into the greatest health crisis of our time and a roadmap for reclaiming our right to rest in a world designed to steal our sleep.
We are living through the most devastating sleep crisis in human history. Americans today sleep 1.5 to 2 hours less per night than a century ago, with only 32% of adults getting adequate rest. But this isn't just about feeling tired, chronic sleep deprivation has become the hidden epidemic underlying rising rates of anxiety, depression, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and dementia. We've created a civilization that operates in direct opposition to one of our most fundamental biological needs.
The Crisis in Modern Sleep exposes the powerful forces systematically destroying our sleep and reveals why individual solutions alone cannot solve problems created by entire industries that profit from our exhaustion. From technology companies that design devices to colonize our evening hours to workplace cultures that reward availability over sustainability, from schools that ignore adolescent circadian biology to a $20 billion sleep industry that often makes problems worse, this book uncovers the hidden architecture of modern sleeplessness.
Drawing on cutting-edge research in neuroscience, circadian biology, and sleep medicine, Restless reveals the devastating consequences of treating sleep as optional rather than essential. Chronic sleep loss doesn't just make us tired, it fundamentally rewires our brains, fractures our relationships, compromises our immune systems, and undermines our capacity for creativity, empathy, and complex thinking. The costs extend far beyond individual health to include transportation disasters, medical errors, educational failures, and economic losses exceeding $400 billion annually.
But this book is ultimately about hope and transformation. Restless provides evidence-based strategies for reclaiming healthy sleep at every level, from creating personal sleep sanctuaries and establishing digital boundaries to advocating for workplace policies that protect employee rest and community initiatives that recognize sleep as a public health necessity. Through inspiring stories of individuals, families, schools, and organizations that have successfully prioritized rest, the book demonstrates that change is not only necessary but achievable.
Part exposé, part user manual, part call to action, Restless argues that in a world designed to capture and monetize our attention 24/7, sleep has become an act of resistance. This book will transform how you think about rest, productivity, and what it means to live a sustainable life in modern society.
We are living through the most devastating sleep crisis in human history. Americans today sleep 1.5 to 2 hours less per night than a century ago, with only 32% of adults getting adequate rest. But this isn't just about feeling tired, chronic sleep deprivation has become the hidden epidemic underlying rising rates of anxiety, depression, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and dementia. We've created a civilization that operates in direct opposition to one of our most fundamental biological needs.
The Crisis in Modern Sleep exposes the powerful forces systematically destroying our sleep and reveals why individual solutions alone cannot solve problems created by entire industries that profit from our exhaustion. From technology companies that design devices to colonize our evening hours to workplace cultures that reward availability over sustainability, from schools that ignore adolescent circadian biology to a $20 billion sleep industry that often makes problems worse, this book uncovers the hidden architecture of modern sleeplessness.
Drawing on cutting-edge research in neuroscience, circadian biology, and sleep medicine, Restless reveals the devastating consequences of treating sleep as optional rather than essential. Chronic sleep loss doesn't just make us tired, it fundamentally rewires our brains, fractures our relationships, compromises our immune systems, and undermines our capacity for creativity, empathy, and complex thinking. The costs extend far beyond individual health to include transportation disasters, medical errors, educational failures, and economic losses exceeding $400 billion annually.
But this book is ultimately about hope and transformation. Restless provides evidence-based strategies for reclaiming healthy sleep at every level, from creating personal sleep sanctuaries and establishing digital boundaries to advocating for workplace policies that protect employee rest and community initiatives that recognize sleep as a public health necessity. Through inspiring stories of individuals, families, schools, and organizations that have successfully prioritized rest, the book demonstrates that change is not only necessary but achievable.
Part exposé, part user manual, part call to action, Restless argues that in a world designed to capture and monetize our attention 24/7, sleep has become an act of resistance. This book will transform how you think about rest, productivity, and what it means to live a sustainable life in modern society.
273 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 22, 2025
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