The first genuinely cold evening of October does something predictable in my coaching practice: my phone fills with questions about weighted blankets. This year it happened on a Tuesday. Two clients, one of my assistant coaches, and — I am not making this up — my dentist all asked some version of the same question within twenty-four hours. “Is the fifteen-pound thing real, or is it a placebo with good marketing?” It’s a fair question, and the honest answer sits somewhere in the middle. Weighted blankets are not magic, and anyone promising they’ll fix your sleep single-handedly is selling something.…