rdco

There's no commercial server with an IP address at the White House.

https://layer3intel.com/what-is-a-residential-proxy

The meditation app Calm was helpful for me. Meditation has common misconceptions around it, but it's really a tool that helps a person observe their self. That has a calming effect (resets current stress level) and a preventive effect (helps me understand when I'm getting stressed).

There's lots of other meditation apps, so shop around as needed.

For your third point, maybe try out Kaleidoscope (macOS/iOS only):

https://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/

You can map git difftool to it to launch it from the command line.

>some of the happiest people are farmers

Farmers and soldiers have notoriously high suicide rates. One explanation is that it's caused by a lack of control. From that perspective, it's certainly frustrating to watch your company succumb to inefficiencies (e.g. politics), but as a white collar worker, it's much easier to solve than for farmers. White collar worker can move laterally to a new job or upward, but farmers are looking at selling the family farm (social/career implosion) or controling the weather (impossible).

>Simple and a slower life is not such a terrible thing.

Agreed.