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Dan Doctoroff on Living with ALS and Building the Future

2023/11/16
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Dan Doctoroff discusses how his ALS diagnosis has altered his perspective on life, focusing more on the present and less on the future, while maintaining an optimistic outlook and a commitment to finding a cure for ALS.

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Dan Doctoroff had a storied career as Deputy Mayor of New York City during the first two Bloomberg administrations. In six years, Doctoroff helped rebuild the city after 9/11. He later oversaw the terminal and media business at Bloomberg before joining forces with Google on (the now defunct) Sidewalk Labs mission to define the future of cities. These days, he’s taking on a new challenge: ALS, a.k.a Lou Gehrig’s disease. Doctoroff was hit with the neurodegenerative disease in 2021. He speaks candidly about how this challenge has helped him stay present and let go of the future — except, of course, in the search for a cure.

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