Brian JohnsonChairman & Philosopher in Residence at Heroic

Why Real Connections Matter More Than Ever Now

17 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Brian Johnson argues that as AI reshapes society, real-world community and in-person relationships become critically important. He encourages people to use available resources (app, book) to build local communities—families, schools, teams, companies—and issues a personal call to action: individuals must step up to help achieve broad flourishing.

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When we look forward at what AI is doing and how our world is changing, the power of community, the power of in person, connection and relationship becomes more and more and more strong. Part of our vision is to take all these tools in the app, in the book, all the great stuff, but really help people in community, in local environments, to connect with one another, to support one another, to have experiences like this, to take experiences like this to your families, to your schools, to your sports teams, to your companies, all those things. And we've got a lot of resources to help with that. But at the end of the day, you are the hero that you've been waiting for. No one else is coming. But if you can answer that call for yourself, for your families, for your communities, that's how we're going to get to that 51% of the world flourishing.