Paul-Henry Flynn

“A Dios rogando y con el mazo dando.”

Why I joined Virtues

As a digital minimalist, a tech company might seem like a wrong fit. I automate my phone into airplane mode every evening. I prefer to refine my somatic awareness and intuition rather than let an app tell me “You’re tired.” I refuse to switch my outdated Hotmail to Gmail.

But it’s precisely because of these unavoidable technical headaches in the world that I love the mission of Virtues. A digital twin - the aggregation of all your data - is the most intimate record of your life. The problem is, it already exists, and you don’t control it. Big Tech has been refining ‘you’ for the last decade.

At its core, Virtues reclaims your data. It restores what was taken and stores it where Big Tech can’t reach: on a local device in your home. That reservoir, combined with private AI, generates grounded insights that remain under your control. Rather than just raw data, these personal insights allow you to refine your actions and cultivate virtue.

The Google suite I (only half-successfully) avoid, the out-of-touch ‘go for a walk’ notifications, and the loss of control over my devices are exactly why I’m building Virtues.

How I work

I enjoy boiling problems down to their core - that’s how I think, and that’s my primary contribution to Virtues: first-principles reasoning. I have several years of engineering study, and a constant ongoing study of design principles.

The result is a product that’s deeply considered, not just functional, but simple and simply beautiful.