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

Oct 2, 2025

Join Anjan Katta, the innovative founder of Daylight, and Tristan Scott, an electrical engineer with a passion for outdoor-centered tech, as they explore a groundbreaking solution to tech-induced meltdowns. They discuss their reflective, low-blue-light display that helps calm kids' nervous systems and encourages focused learning. Anjan reveals how this design promotes healthier screen use while Tristan shares insights on EMF reduction. Their vision promises a future with fewer tantrums and more enriching outdoor experiences for families.

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INSIGHT

Product Born From Personal Need

Anjan built Daylight after personal hypersensitivity to screens and light made computing painful.
He designed a product to give himself and others hope for less overstimulating digital life.

INSIGHT

Designing The Least Computer Possible

Daylight's core question was "what is the least computer possible?" to avoid attention traps.
They aimed for a paper-like digital device focused on reading, writing, and thinking.

ADVICE

Choose Constrained Technology

Try constrained technology that prioritizes health over infinite apps and notifications.
Reduce digital overwhelm to improve sleep, attention, and performance.

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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.

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