1KHO 588: Tantrum-Free Technology is Here! | Anjan Katta and Tristan Scott, Daylight Computer

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

What if the solution to tech-induced meltdowns wasn’t another app, but a different kind of screen altogether? In this urgent, hope-filled conversation, Ginny sits down with Daylight founder and CEO Anjan Katta as well as Tristan Scott—two innovators taking on Big Tech with what they call “the least computer possible.” They explain how Daylight’s reflective, blue-light-free, flicker-free display works with natural light (even in full sun), why that calms kids’ nervous systems, and how designing for finite, intentional use (reading, writing, audiobooks, selected learning tools) restores attention, sleep, and sanity. You’ll hear the “slot machine vs. riverside” analogy you won’t forget—and a wild experiment where kids actually got bored of YouTube on a Daylight device. Tristan unpacks EMFs(and how Daylight’s “smart airplane mode,” ethernet support, and outdoor use shrink exposure, while Anjan shares the conviction that drove him to build a screen he needed for his own hypersensitive brain and for every child caught in today’s attention economy. This is calm technology for real childhoods: fewer tantrums, fewer tabs, more outside time, and more cognitive sovereignty for families. If EdTech is everywhere, this episode shows a better way in. Parents, educators, and homeschoolers—don’t miss the details on Daylight Kids and ESA approval, plus a vision that trades doom-scrolling for dirt-between-the-toes learning. Head to https://buy.daylightcomputer.com/1000HOURS Use code 1000hours at checkout to save $50 and get FREE shipping on your Daylight DC-1 tablet or any of their kids bundles! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here's the truth about AI.
0:02.0	AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into.
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0:09.0	removing friction and frustration for your employees,
0:12.0	supercharging productivity for your developers,
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0:19.0	All built into a single platform you can
0:21.9	use right now. That's why the world works with ServiceNow. Visit ServiceNow.com
0:27.8	slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to 1000 Hours Outside. I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside, and I get to
0:35.5	bring you this incredible news.
0:37.7	This incredible news, this life-changing thing is here
0:41.3	where you can be doing screens without junk light
0:44.0	and screens that are not so wildly addictive.
0:47.3	And I don't even know what you would call yourselves.
0:49.7	Like you're gonna have to explain what you do,
0:51.3	but the company is called Daylight.
0:53.4	It's the Daylight Computer and I have to tell you before I but the the company is called daylight it's the daylight computer and
0:54.9	i have to tell you before i even introduce your names but my midwife her name is beth she told me about it
1:01.3	she she knew about it a way long time ago she was on a waiting list she was like i am on a waiting
1:06.2	list this is the best thing and so now you have it's for adults you have for kids have it for kids. So it's Tristan Scott and Ungen Keta. Unjun Keta are here to talk about it. It is incredible to me when people go against big tech and they're like, I'm going to offer something different. And you're so successful. So can you give us the story? I know Tristan, I read your book called Bitcoin and Beef. So I know you've got this background of health and wellness. We're talking so much about junk light. You're actually outside right now. And Anjan, I don't know your backstory as much. So how did the two of you connect? What do you do for daylight? This is incredible. Yeah, thanks for having us.
1:50.7	I feel sometimes like a jihadi in the middle of Silicon Valley, not at all aligned with the philosophy here, but trying to change things from the inside.
1:55.4	But I actually grew up in Canada, and I think what led me to daylight is I've always been in a very, very hyper and a very,
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