--- title: 5 Techniques I Use to Manage Stress as a Software Engineer description: Software engineer Nick Bull shares his tips on how to manage stress. Turn off notifications and tell people to not distract you with unimportant stuff during... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/5-techniques-i-use-to-manage-stress-as-a-software-engineer-acx-n2ygo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 5 Techniques I Use to Manage Stress as a Software Engineer | daily.dev og:description: Software engineer Nick Bull shares his tips on how to manage stress. Turn off notifications and tell people to not distract you with unimportant stuff during... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/5-techniques-i-use-to-manage-stress-as-a-software-engineer-acx-n2ygo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/aCx-n2yGo.png og:image:alt: 5 Techniques I Use to Manage Stress as a Software Engineer og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 5 Techniques I Use to Manage Stress as a Software Engineer **[Better Programming](https://daily.dev/sources/btrprog)** · 3 min read · 48 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary Software engineer Nick Bull shares his tips on how to manage stress. Turn off notifications and tell people to not distract you with unimportant stuff during your working hours. Hydrate Stretch Walk and go for a 15- to 20-minute walk when you feel under stress and a solution pops up in your head. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@samet** · 3 upvotes > simple and effective post **@baratafeyo** · 2 upvotes > I completely agree. I would advise reading Jim Kwik's book Limitless. He teaches this and more great tools to deal with stress more effectively and how to learn and how to read faster. **@sshanzel** · 2 upvotes > I can say the first one is really effective (for me I would tell). It made me feel enthusiastic every day and improved my communication skills. Of course, you won't experience the changes instantly, but once it becomes your habit, you'd know it did. > > Btw, it takes 21 days for a thing to become a habit (if I'm not mistaken) - so you really have to be consistent **@renis** · 0 upvotes > Esta waiis.. Bien waiis.. Las intentare a ver que tal va y os contare.. ^^ **@berkmann18** · 0 upvotes > 1. Morning journal (Brain dump, today's goal) > 2. Walking > 3. Breaks (+ hydrate, stretch and walk) > 4. Flight mode > 5. Clean desk > > > Some really good ones. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/5-techniques-i-use-to-manage-stress-as-a-software-engineer-acx-n2ygo) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"5 Techniques I Use to Manage Stress as a Software Engineer","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/5-techniques-i-use-to-manage-stress-as-a-software-engineer-acx-n2ygo","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/5-techniques-i-use-to-manage-stress-as-a-software-engineer-acx-n2ygo"},"datePublished":"2020-10-27T13:27:40.448Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"Software engineer Nick Bull shares his tips on how to manage stress. 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I would advise reading Jim Kwik’s book Limitless. He teaches this and more great tools to deal with stress more effectively and how to learn and how to read faster.","datePublished":"2020-11-05T09:57:54.478Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/aCx-n2yGo#c-zxsjvzKOe","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Inês Borges","url":"https://daily.dev/baratafeyo","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14GjeUZeuRgimELu7WebBIxzRv7DnXjD8BFk_aHp_gg=s100"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"I can say the first one is really effective (for me I would tell). It made me feel enthusiastic every day and improved my communication skills. 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