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It’s also known as *sama vritti pranayama*, born of the yogic practice of pranayama, or focusing on the breath. Its common name, “box breathing,” refers to the fact that a box has four sides, a concept represented here by breathing while you slowly count to four for a total of four times — four counts of breathing in, four counts of holding your breath, four counts of exhaling and four more counts of holding after your exhale.

How Box Breathing Can Help You Destress

Melissa Young

Observationally, I would say that there's little correlation between expertise and kit-optimization in our field, positive or negative. The lesson here is to be careful with the signals you use as proxies for competence. "Has the perfect Visual Studio config", "has spoken at loads of conferences", and "visible on Hacker News"[4](https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/04/20/hobbies.html#foot4) seem like strong signals, when the reality seems to be that they are weak ones, at best.

The Four Hobbies, and Apparent Expertise

marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)

As an engineering executive, it’s particularly important to think about the priorities that no one else is asking for (especially security, reliability, compliance, and developer productivity), and ensure your investment thesis addresses those.

Writing an Engineering Strategy.

lethain.com

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