Derek Sivers @sivers

2y, 3d Derek Sivers @sivers

Former musician, producer, circus performer, entrepreneur, TED speaker, and book publisher.

sive.rs from Wellington

😀 Tom I appreciate the offer. I'm not sure I really have any specific questions at this time. I first thought about them years ago, and it's just been an on-and-off curiousity since then. There is a local float center, so I supose I just need to try it at least once. I like the idea of medition, and I thought it could be used for relaxation, though I'm not sure at this point. I used to sauna for a while when I had the opportunity, and that was pretty relaxing. I guess I have a question: do you think it could be used for relaxing (any for the body besides just the mind)?

Derek Sivers Probably different for everyone. I'm a very relaxed guy, so when friends tell me that accupuncture or massage or hot stones or various other things work for them, I always try it out of curiosity, for the life experience. But really nothing has been super-relaxing to me... EXCEPT: going back and forth between super-hot and super-cold pools a few times - each one staying in as long as I can stand it. Now THAT melts me. Everything else has been just "eh". sive.rs/sauna

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😀 Tom Has anyone here used a sensory deprevation chamber before?

Derek Sivers I have. Despite all the cost and fuss (space-age pod and salty water and showers), it was just a nice quiet place to lie down for an hour. Feel free to ask me anything about it. Curious to hear if anyone had a very different experience.

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Derek Sivers Doubt your own reasons, no matter how true they seem. Get curious about what your other hidden explanations may be.

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🏒 Lucian Marin Your sive.rs/pg and later articles about PostgreSQL made me doubt my assumptions about memory caching. Since then I never touched Memcached or Redis. All data needs are handled inside PostgreSQL.

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