daah·qaad · “lift the veil”
Wherever your attention goes, your life follows.
A calm home for reading, writing, and live conversation. You follow the people you choose. There are no reels, no autoplay, and no noise.
A calm home for reading, writing, and live conversation. You follow the people you choose. There are no reels, no autoplay, and no noise.
The average person checks their phone 205 times a day. That is once every five waking minutes.
Reviews.org survey, 2024
Our attention on a screen now lasts 47 seconds, down from 2½ minutes in 2004. After every interruption, the mind needs 23 minutes to truly return.
Dr. Gloria Mark, University of California, Irvine
Feeds are engineered like slot machines, with variable rewards and an infinite pull.
Center for Humane Technology
Meanwhile, the tea goes cold, the sunset ends, and the people we love speak to the tops of our heads.
daah·qaad is Somali for “lift the veil.”
So we built the calm place we were looking for. A home for reading, writing, and real conversation. Nothing else.
Stories and essays from writers worth following. Made to be read, not scrolled past.
A real editor for long pieces, and a page that looks like a page. Poetry keeps its line breaks.
Host or join live audio. Raise your hand to speak, or just listen in.
Any story can be read aloud in Somali or English, for the kitchen, the bus, or the walk home.
Somali stories were told out loud long before they were written. Live rooms bring that back: a writer reads, a poet recites, a listener raises a hand, and the room talks.
Stories worth your time, from writers worth following.
On iPhone and Android. Or read and write in your browser at app.daahqaad.com.