Written by a google engineer for other engineers. TLDR: practicing meditation gives you the ability to react to stress and anxiety before it blows up.
I found the OP very interesting because they are essentially trying to delivery some of the benefits of mindful practices via a technical means.
This was also pretty good, if you'd rather read a book: http://www.amazon.com/Search-Inside-Yourself-Unexpected-Achi...
This book was written by one of early Google engineers who has learned meditation and created a class that he has taught to thousands of Google employees. Unlike much of other writing or classes on meditation this one is written in plain language and cites lots of neuro research. It is not even that long.
So go read first half of this book, practice it for 3 months and then reevaluate.
That said I recommend Chade-Meng Tan's 'Search Inside Yourself'[0].
Chade-Meng Tan began his career at Google as software engineer and later transitioned to teach a course – that this book describes – on emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and self-awareness. Allegedly, the course was quite popular at Google. I highly recommend the book.
[0] http://www.amazon.com/Search-Inside-Yourself-Unexpected-Achi...