Virtues 2.0: Character for the Algorithmic Age

You have not lost morality. You have lost what it was for.The feed has taken the words that once made a life - justice, kindness, freedom, real - and polished them until they mean nothing but performs well. It has turned the mirror of your character into a museum of fragments: words you can say but no longer believe, a self you can post but never be.This is not a book about being more productive, more authentic, or more visible. It is a recovery of character for the age that optimized it away.Drawing on the great tradition of virtue ethics, Virtues 2.0 diagnoses the moral catastrophe of the algorithmic age and rebuilds, practice by practice, the character of a life worth being the author of - across eight virtues (freedom, belonging, contribution, courage, integrity, presence, rest, hope) and sixteen disciplines you can begin this week.The fragments are the pieces of your character, waiting for a face that can hold them.The mirror remembers the whole face.