Post #18, because if you listen to cnbc or read wsj, it’s there. Sherry Sandberg is close to big star for most people. She was mentored by Larry Summers, formerly a Harvard president or whatever title he was in. He was also some kind of economics advisor to Obama administration in its early days. So it’s just not Silicon Valley.
When the POTUS sends his condolences to the relatives of someone, it means the person affected the lives “beyond the Silicon Valley area.” I encourage you to read the book written by his wife… If you are as close to your spouse as she was, you will understand (I do).
https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse/posts/10153421361034238
Sheryl lost her best friend. The business world lost a great man.
21 - that site is Facebook. I'm surprised it is starred out... after all, we have a Facebook icon after every post here- ?
Anyway, more food for thought:
Post #22, Sherry Sandberg is a role model for a lot of young girls including one of mine. Mine has “leanin” in one her Facebook or LinkedIn if I remember.
I think in part it’s because of Sandberg’s book “Lean In” which became a popular read for women in the tech world. Sandberg credited much of her ability to rise through the ranks and have a family with “choosing the right husband”. So in a horrible irony she is now faced with the hard decisions that many single mothers and women with less than supportive husbands face.
“I fail to see why the death of this man is such huge news beyond the Silicon Valley area.”
??Besides being the husband of the rock star Facebook CEO, he’s a super power in his own right. He took a 12 person startup and turned it into a 2 billion dollar company. Technology affects us all, not just those who live in Silicon Valley. The world takes note when people of importance die, not just when actors and politicians die.
And he went to Harvard, graduate Summa Cum Laude, so this news fits right into collegeconfidential. He is a mentor to a lot of companies in Silicon Valley.
Not to mention that he died at such a young age (47), leaving behind young children. And that the cause of death was a mystery for a couple days, and is still not clear. (People were speculating that it was suicide.)
I’ve taken numerous surveys through his company, Survey Monkey, as has millions of other people. Maybe his name wasn’t a household name, but his company is very well known.
I’ve known several men who unexpectedly dropped dead of a heart attack in their 40s. Always such a tragedy.
It certainly has made me think twice about using a treadmill in an empty hotel fitness room. You gotta wonder if he would lived if he had been found sooner – I think it was something like 4 hours after he left for the fitness center that he was found.
I think the place they were staying was a private villa next door to the Four Seasons, and that allows access to the Four Season’s property. From the news reports, it sounds like the accident did not happen in the hotel fitness center, leading to the implication that there was a private fitness room at the villa. So there likely wouldn’t have been others around at the time of the accident.
I was on a treadmill at the Y when I saw the story. It made me really think about paying attention.
The young woman on the treadmill next to me missed the story because she was scrolling through her text messages.
Such a sad story. As a gym rat and CPR instructor, I have the same reaction as garland. I wonder if something led to the accident - he passed out or something and then the blow to the head was the final straw. I guess one takeaway if that it’s not a good idea to workout alone in the gym. I would imagine that a high-end resort would have surveillance cameras in the gym and it’s been reviewed.
My neighbor started feeling lightheaded when he was on their treadmill at home. He had to stop and lie down and had his wife call 911 and get him to the ER. He as in his 40s and fairly fit-looking. They did tests and couldn’t find anything but kept him overnight. They did caution him about not making sudden changes in activity level from very little to running hard on the treadmill, as that could stress the body & dehydrate a person to cause heart and dizziness issues.
He has since run the Boston Marathon several times, so I’m guessing he’s pretty fit. It did give his wife, us and everyone else a scare tho.
I was at a gym once and there was a storm brewing outside. Just flickering lightning in the distance, nothing that seemed serious. But we got a power brown-out. It didn’t affect me much on the stair machine but a person on the treadmill fell off when her stride was interrupted by the power loss. She wasn’t hurt but was very, very upset about it and seemed to think that the gym monitor should have warned her it was possible.
I guess those machines are more treacherous than usual but I would still file it under a freak accident.
One time I was in my apartment work out facility with my 13 year old sister (I was 26). I was on the stationary bike, going very fast. I suddenly hopped off to walk over to where my sister was. All of a sudden, I saw white spots, got extremely nauseated, and before I knew it, I thought I was on my water bed with music playing in the background. My sister said I was sitting on a weight bench and just fell forward, dead weight, onto the ground. She said my eyes were open and I was twitching a little bit. She thought I was dying, and what I thought was music was the sound of her crying. She called 911. They said I probably had a vaso vagal episode related to extreme exercise and stopping abruptly (heart rate slows, blood pressure drops too low to maintain consciousness). It was scary.
I have some doubts and curiosity about the circumstances. But its not my call, and those involved are perfectly competent to press their own interests if necessary.
It just doesn’t seem reasonable that a fall for a 47 year old should cause death. If I were there, I’d want to know the exact location of the trauma and see whether it seemed consistent with a fall.
I realize this raises a lot of other questions and I don’t have any conjecture.
Does anyone know if Sandberg was there? I haven’t seen that explicitly discussed. Only that the brother was there and found him.
I think he was in the gym alone and was only found when family came looking for him.
So ironic to have your death caused by the exact activity you chose to keep healthy and prolong your life.
It is not at all questionable or surprising to me that this could cause life threatening or fatal injury. I personally know three or four people who have taken really serious falls on a treadmill. It is not uncommon.
Not related, but these days I prefer my elliptical.
Actually, I have never been able to do well on any treadmill. My folks had one and I kept tripping the emergency stop because I couldn’t synch my stride with the machine. My brother’s treadmill made my knees ache, as did his exercise bike. I prefer just walking in open spaces and yes, at malls over any machine. I know I should have more and better exercise, but will stick with what is working OK for now. Yoga works for me as well, but I’m not great with any exercise machines, even when I have free access to them via hotel or cruise ship.
I use treadmills frequently, but they are hard to use on a cruise ship, especially when there are big waves. I have to use them during the winter, because I hate running on ice (the cold doesn’t bother me).
Here is some news that came out earlier today–
“But CBS News has learned that autopsy results suggest Goldberg had a heart arrhythmia that may have contributed to his death, reports CBSN’s Elaine Quijano.”