This definitely resonates for me. Like many developers, I grew up thinking of my body more as a tedious, irritating burden; the whole brain-in-a-jar/live-in-th

This definitely resonates for me. Like many developers, I grew up thinking of my body more as a tedious, irritating burden; the whole brain-in-a-jar/live-in-the-matrix thing seemed kinda appealing. So I was proud of how long I could spend coding or reading and ignoring my body. That gave me a lot of bad habits. Then I made a friend who's a yoga teacher. Out of curiosity I started attending some of her classes. In her yoga tradition, the root purpose of yoga is to free the mind for meditation. That really resonated for me. Instead of ignoring my body, I could work with it to do better at the things that mattered to me. In the years since, I've come to think of my previous relationship to my body as like somebody running a large software system with poor instrumentation and observability. Somebody who ignored monitoring alerts until there was downtime. In that framing, I could see it as obviously the wrong approach. That instead I needed to pay attention, take care of maintenance, debug problems, and generally to understand and improve the system over time. Especially as I get older, it really pays off. My only regret is not starting sooner.