One day I was reading my phone in bed in the morning, and I thought: “man, you aren’t even giving your brain a chance.” Mere seconds after gaining consciousness, I was already on my phone, slamming a breakfast of up-to-date infinite nonsense. But trying to avoid my phone didn’t take, either. Clearly I need to look at something in the morning while drinking coffee. So, I built myself Beak - a replacement for reading my phone first thing each day. Think of it as a tiny magazine, delivered daily. I quickly realized the great thing is that with an Epub, there's nothing to click, no pop-ups, and no sidetracking. All you can do is turn the pages! Something interesting I learned through building (and reading, daily) Beak was that the range of content that was interesting if you allow yourself to focus just a little bit. I started adding poetry, foreign word lessons, and chapters from famous books I’d never gotten around to reading to the backend, and was surprised each morning by how willing to be a little literary I was. At a certain point I realized that maybe this would be something other people would like to use, and so I’ve spent a few months trying to make an honest product out of something I initially just made for myself, to keep myself a little sane.

Beak

Curated, calmer, content - on your Kindle each morning

Curated, calmer, content - on your Kindle each morning