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The Genius Scouts PodcastJoe Hollier: He Built the Light Phone to Save You from Your Smartphone (And It’s Working)Joe Hollier didn’t set out to start a phone company. But after years as an artist, designer, and creative technologist (with work commissioned by the Smithsonian) he co-founded the Light Phone: a minimalist, distraction-free device that’s become a quiet rebellion against the always-on world.In this episode, Joe shares the design philosophy behind the Light Phone (“designed to be used as little as possible”), and why stepping away from our devices might be the most productive thing we can do. From rewiring your brain for presence to the illusion of social media productivity, he breaks down how...2025-05-151h 05
log out#003: Going Light with Joe Hollier – Why the Light Phone Founder Ditched His Smartphone for Privacy & Peace of MindWhat if the solution to tech burnout… is using your phone less?In this episode, Siara sits down with Joe Hollier, co-founder of the Light Phone — a minimalist phone designed to be used as little as possible. They unpack the addictive nature of smartphones, the dark reality of the data economy, and why stepping away from the internet might actually bring us closer to ourselves.Joe shares what it’s like to live without a smartphone for over six years, how his design roots led him to rethink tech from the ground up, and why digita...2025-04-101h 07
Super Connected ConversationsThe Light Phone with Kaiwei TangMulti-disciplinary artist Tim Arnold in conversation with Kaiwei Tang, co-founder of minimalist phone company The Light Phone. Together, they discuss how Light Phone help users disconnect from digital distractions, encouraging a return to more intentional and fulfilling daily experiences. Recorded live on August 2nd, 2024.
Kaiwei Tang is a visionary entrepreneur and co-founder of The Light Phone, along with Joe Hollier. Their company is dedicated to creating minimalist phones designed to promote a healthier relationship with technology. Kaiwei’s product design and development background with a focus on human centered design, paired with Joe’s background in art, desi...2024-08-071h 38
ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists#36 with Joe HollierWelcome back to ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists. On today’s episode I speak with Joe Hollier. Joe is a multi-disciplinary artist from Brooklyn. He is also the co-founder of The Light Phone.Joe and I met back in the day, participating in group shows around Brooklyn. Back then i knew him as a collage artist, who was also hard at work on a mysterious plastic gadget. That gadget turned out to be The Light Phone, a simple phone that makes calls and helps keep distractions to a minimum. I actually pick...2024-07-111h 43
Day One FMHow to Ditch Your Smartphone With The Light Phone Co-founder Joe HollierJoe Hollier is the co-founder of The Light Phone, an anti-smartphone “designed to be used as little as possible.” We talk taking inspo from Brian Eno, recalibrating our attention spans, how you gonna be mad on vacation, bible belt families, avoiding the word “addiction,” don’t overthink the research process, and building a more honest tech company. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2024-05-2353 min
Moral Repair: A Black Exploration of TechSabbaths and Light Phones: Technologies for RestAlways-on technology has amplified distraction and overwhelm, disconnection, and cultural polarization. What ancient and emerging tools can help us put tech in its rightful place? Keisha and Annanda talk to Judith Shulevitz and Joe Hollier about what can we learn from Sabbath traditions about community, connection, and thriving. SHOW NOTES
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The Other Way067: [MINDFULNESS] Off the grid: breaking your phone addiction & going "light" with Joe HollierHi everyone! Today I'm speaking with Joe Hollier, Co-Founder of Light -> a minimalistic, non-addictive smartphone alternative. For those of you who have known me for a while I've been on a long-time mission to become more intention with the information I'm taking in and to cultivate more focus and flow into my day. Partner that with my long-time meditation practice and over the past few years it has become obvious to me that my phone... as convenient as it is... is definitely part of a larger problem.This year I "upgraded" to a Lightphone and started t...2024-04-2359 min
The Side WooDigital Detoxing with Joe Hollier, the Co-Creator of The Light PhoneIn honor of the end of Flip Phone February, this week Sarah talks with the co-creator of the Light Phone, a "dumbphone" made to help people spend less time using their phones. Most recently Light Phone has done a collaboration with Kendrick Lamar for their instantly sold-out Light Phone II this past fall.
Joe shares how he and his partner Kaiwei Tang came up with the idea for the phone, and what impact running a business has made on his creative life. We also talk about the very real addiction most of us have to our smartphones...2024-02-291h 00
Built for ChangeError 429: Human Request Limit ReachedWith the rapid acceleration of innovation, many people are feeling that technology is happening to them rather than for them. In fact, according to Accenture research, 41% of frequent tech users say that technology has complicated their lives just as much as it has simplified it. Because of this, businesses should not hide from the oncoming tide of people seeking control over their relationship with technology. The best approach for many organizations is to become part of the solution. In this episode, our guests will be Joe Hollier, Co-Founder of Light (creators of the Light Phone); Katie Burke, Global Thought...2024-02-2823 min
New Ways#12 | Re-thinking Our Relationship with Technology | Light Phone Co-creator Joe HollierIf you were to design the ultimate product or service, how
would you measure its success? The most common answers would likely be along the lines of how much money it made, or how much time people spent using it.
But there’s another important metric that is often overlooked, and that’s the feeling your audience experiences from using your product.
I know, shifting the focus from something that benefits the
company, to something that benefits the user, sounds like a bit of a radical strategy, but that’s exactly the mindset that today’s guest...2024-01-261h 00
The Ned Ludd Radio HourOur Smartphone AddictionI’m a smartphone addict. I admit it. I’ve just checked my screentime on my Apple iPhone SE and it’s 1 hour and 28 minutes per day on average, a figure that should be shocking except that I know, from those around me, that it’s not very much by modern standards. I won’t name names but I know people who have 6, 7, 8 hours of screen time per day. This is the point at which the phone becomes another domain, another life. You will spend a less fortunate person’s lifetime staring at that screen, lost in the colours, the attentio...2023-11-0636 min
The JOMOcast with Christina CrookThis School Took Away Smartphones. The Kids Don’t Mind.When the high schoolers who attend Buxton boarding school in Williamstown, Massachusetts, resumed in-person learning in the fall of 2020, the head of the school noticed that the kids had lost something important. After months of remote learning due to the pandemic, kids no longer knew how to interact with one another. “The students had completely forgotten the basics of face-to-face interaction. They had spent so much time glued to their smartphones.”Everybody’s attention was being sucked into their online lives — text messages, emails and social media apps — on their phones. The students struggled t...2023-10-0431 min
Under the Radar PodcastSome Americans are saying no to smart devices and embracing digital minimalismAmericans have intimate relationships with their cellphones. A recent report found 89% of Americans say they check their phones within the first 10 minutes of waking up, and 60% sleep with their phone at night.
And during the day, nearly one-third of American adults reported being online "almost constantly" in 2021, up from 21% in 2015.
"I remember being attached to [my phone] and when I was texting my girlfriend, I remember the screen just kind of came alive," said Jose Briones, an advocate of digital minimalism. "I get this rush of, 'Wow, like, somebody cares about me.' And I...2023-08-2736 min
How I Built This with Guy RazWhen our phones are just phones with Kai Tang and Joe Hollier of LightMost of us are dependent on our smartphones. In fact, Americans spend an average of three hours a day on these devices — devices that only came into existence relatively recently. Designers Kai Tang and Joe Hollier have long believed that it’s not normal for humans to be so attached to their phones. So they launched their own company in 2014 to create an alternative...called the Light Phone.This week on How I Built This Lab, Kai and Joe talk about their work to build a simpler mobile phone - without apps or tracking of perso...2023-08-1032 min
As It Goes048 // Going Light with Joe Hollier & Kaiwei Tang of Light PhoneThis week's conversation is one full of hope and liberation because we're joined by Joe Hollier and Kaiwei Tang, co-founders of Light and creators of the Light phone.
As Light describes themselves, "Light is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users."
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Insurance Refocused#2 - Redefining Community w/ Joe HollierIn this episode, Carey and Lindsay sit down with Joe Hollier from Nifty to talk about the metaverse and its future in the independent insurance space.If you would like to reach out to Joe to learn more, shoot him an email at joe@theniftyrewards.com. This episode is brought to you by Cake, connecting independent insurance agents looking to sell a book of business or a slice – a chosen group of accounts – with other agents looking to grow their business. Learn more and create a free account at https://www.haveyourcake.com/ 2023-02-0746 min