What is this?
The Daily Wick
A small flame, every morning.
The Daily Wick is a daily byte-size newsletter for curious minds — one idea, one question, one action, every weekday morning. It is the product of a small experiment: can a daily publication, read in three minutes or fewer, do real work on the way you think about your day?
The format is the same every weekday, on purpose. An idea small enough to chew on. One question to sit with. A concrete action you can do today, before lunch. And a few links if you want to follow the rabbit hole further.
What you can expect
- One short post, every weekday, before 7am Pacific time.
- Two to three minutes to read. Three to thirty minutes to think about.
- Sourced. Cited. Edited. Never padded.
- A new theme each month — Foundations, Attention, Resilience, Craft… each issue an angle on it.
- Free, forever, no paywall.
How posts are made
Each daily issue is drafted with help from a large language model (Gemini 2.5 Flash) against a long, opinionated prompt — and then read, edited, and approved by a human curator before it ships. We disclose the process on every post and on our editorial standards page. Sources are real. Quotes are checked. We'd rather skip a day than publish something we can't stand behind.
Who it's for
For anyone who wakes up wanting to read something small and considered instead of something large and frantic. For people building habits, paying attention to what they pay attention to, and quietly trying to live better.
Who's behind it
The Daily Wick is curated by Rahul Karda. The whole site is open-source on GitHub — you can read the prompt, the schema, the build pipeline, every line of it.
If this sounds like your kind of morning, light the wick.