Want my time? Fight cancer!
Seven years ago, Jennifer Goodman Linn, the wife of my old HBS classmate and basketball buddy Dave Linn, was diagnosed with with a rare soft-tissue cancer. Most people, when facing such a challenge, turn inward to focus on fighting the disease.Instead…
Cancer Dude’s Last Battle. Good Bye, Jeffrey
Damn. Damn. Damn. Cancer s**ks. And here I am, the blogger who thinks can write about everything, yet I am speechless. Yes, Cancer Dude, Jeffrey Walker, businessman, musician, artist, family-man @radiowalker who fought and beat cancer so many times had one too many battles to fight, and he lost this last one. Last night he [...]
Jeffrey’s Seven: Cancer Dude Back Online
This is the third slide of the Opening Keynote from Atlassian’s Summit this week. Amidst all the celebration of success, product and partner announcements, and just about a windfall of information it was a nice gesture to spend a minute with Atlassian’s first US employee, President Jeffrey Walker, who could not be at the event, [...]
Cancer Dude Will Win Again
This is Jeffrey Walker. President of Atlassian, an incredibly cool and successful company. Hacker artist and musician. And also Cancer Dude. His words, not mine. He wrote them two years ago: “In preparation for this upcoming surgery, I’ll be working out every single day. I’ll be leaving work at a reasonable hour. I need to [...]
