On any given weekday morning, while most of us are dodging calendar invites for another work meeting that probably doesn’t have to be a meeting, Rob Lawless is eagerly logging on to yet another video call.

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It might be with a 25-year-old Penn State University student who survived childhood cancer. Or a 61-year-old former construction worker who found God after being electrocuted. Or, a 33-year-old who dedicated his life to creating a muscular dystrophy drug for his younger brother. Lawless has taken each of these meetings, and thousands more in person and online, over the last decade. Since 2015, he has dedicated about three hours a day to meeting strangers, all in pursuit of a single, improbable goal: to have 10,000 one-on-one conversations with so

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