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Why I’ve Been Quiet Lately…

Well that just happened…

John Battelle
5 min readNov 1, 2024

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More than 200 eclectic, incisive, and peripatetically curious folks gathered last week, bound by the pursuit of Truth in Medicine. The result was the formation of a potent new community: DOC.

My partners Jordan Shlain, MD, Kevin Ryan Stacey Foreman, and a small but mighty group of team members have been working on making DOC a reality for more than a year. It all started with a challenge from Kevin to Jordan — can we make a health and longevity event that transcended the hype, the selling, and the bullsh*t infecting most health-related gatherings? Jordan brought the question to me, and over months we whiteboarded our way to an answer. Below is a shot of one of those whiteboards, just as we came up with DOC as a name:

What’s in a name?

We wanted to curate a group of passionate and high-integrity leaders who valued science above selling, people committed to medicine and longevity, but who understood that the best path to progress in extending lifespan was through the rigorous, objective gauntlet of the scientific method. Put…

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John Battelle
John Battelle

Written by John Battelle

A Founder of DOC, The Recount, NewCo, Federated Media, sovrn Holdings, Web 2 Summit, Wired, Industry Standard; writer on Media, Technology, Culture, Business

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