Considering every animal sleeps on a daily basis, I would say “turning it on and off again” pertains to maintaining the stability of complex state-based systems.
I thought the analogy of defragmentation was considered acceptable. I stopped doing all nighters a few years ago and the days have become much easier to handle, even bad days. Always getting a good night's sleep is, in the modern vernacular of philosopher-poet DJ Khaled, a "major key alert"
