Happiness is a skill that I acquire.

I'd like to introduce you to Chade Mang Tan.

Everybody calls me Mang because in the US nobody can do the names in more than one syllable.

So saying the name Mang to someone who works in tech is kind of like saying the name Ira to someone who works in public radio.

Mang's a former Google engineer, but he's not here to talk about coding or anything.

He's here to tell us about how he overcame another kind of software glitch.

I was miserable.

I was miserable.

Most people are somewhere in the middle and some slightly unhappy, slightly happy all the time.

And some people like me will also genetic lottery.

So we will bond miserable.

Mang's going to tell you how he engineered his own happiness and how he made mindfulness big at Google.

Spread the word across Silicon Valley and brought it to you.

Because if there was ever a time when we could all use a little more contentment, you know, the kind that doesn't come in a pill, it is definitely with the political climate surrounding us right now.

It's note to self the tech show about being human.

I'm a new summer Odie.

This week the main streaming of meditation and what mindfulness has to do with profits and productivity.

One year ago at the age of 44, Mang retired from Google.

His title was jolly good fellow.

This was a name that he actually gave himself, but it's stuck.

He had joined the company in the year 2000 employee number 107 and his job was helping Google make its search function work better on mobile devices.

Then in 2003, he went for a walk outside the Google headquarters and he had an epiphany.

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