The message “Remember to breathe” is Pang’s screen saver. Tech writer Linda Stone coined the term “e-mail apnea,” which she defined as the “temporary absence or suspension of breathing, or shallow breathing, while doing e-mail.” You know the feeling: when checking e-mail or waiting for a page to load, often we hold our breath (not to mention keep our shoulders hitched up to our ears). Pang explained that holding one’s breath is an evolutionary signal of anxiety. “It’s what you did a thousand years ago when you thought you were being stalked by a tiger and you needed to be really quiet,” he
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