Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died
I will take this time to write something I wrote on Steve Jobs death: go get a comprehensive health check today. In our community, we are data driven about everything, except our health and body. I will copy what I wrote 1304 days ago, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080327" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080327</a><p>In January 2009 I was Stage 5 chronic kidney disease, in July 2009 I had a kidney transplant.
Looking back there were so many telltale signs that I had over the last six months, which I was ignoring as I was busy building my startup. A regular health check has the potential to catch a problem like this. I now nag each of my friends and family in having an annual health check.<p>Its the best time you can spend.<p>This was not the first time I made a mistake like this. When I was a kid, I had trouble seeing my teacher's blackboard. I just kept moving closer to the blackboard. I saw a doctor when I had trouble understanding what the teacher was writing from the first row.<p>Problems like this creep up on you over years, and they are so gradual you don't realize them.<p>You wont run your site without a Google Analytics/Pingdom. Dont do it with your life. If you haven't had a health check, get it done today.