The Light Phone

"Two years, three months and seven days.

I’m 24, and that’s the amount of my life I’ve already spent on my phone, according to a screen time calculator.

The statistic is sobering. "

I swapped my smartphone for a 'dumb phone'. It changed me:

I swapped my smartphone for a 'dumb phone'. It changed me Can you survive a month without a smartphone? I tried it.

We've been enjoying the Summer of Ludd programing all around New York City!

Wired, "Inside the Luddite Festival Harnessing Gen Z's Rage Against Big Tech"
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-luddite-festival-harnessing-gen-zs-rage-against-big-tech/

Learn more about the rest of this week's events:
https://buttondown.com/nycofftech/archive/summer-of-ludd-schedule/

Inside the Luddite Festival Harnessing Gen Z’s Rage Against Big Tech New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline amid the suffocating presence of Big Tech.

On Tuesday, June 30 at 1pm et, we're hosting a town hall with Techno Sapiens, the best-selling Substack on kids' digital well-being, written by Dr. Jacqueline Nesi, a psychologist and researcher at Brown University.

We'll be talking about the latest research on minimalist phones, what "going light" actually looks like day to day, and whether the science supports what a lot of people are already feeling.

Register for free here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/oNJFIcYUS3a024xheipoXw?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email #/registration

We're always talking about how "your time = their money"; how all of the platforms on our smartphones are incentivized to keep us as hooked as possible - more scrolling, more notifications, more screen time. Their business model depends on it, and it will never align with our actual quality of life. That's part of why we're so excited to announce a partnership with Noble Mobile.

While supplies last, you can now get a Light Phone III with immediate shipping through Noble Mobile with no upfront cost on the device and a two-year plan starting at $50/month. Note - this offer is limited to U.S. customers.

Noble is a different kind of carrier, one that genuinely encourages people to use their phones less. Instead of pushing endless engagement, they've built plans around intentional use.

The Noble Light Phone plan includes 5GB of high-speed data on the T-Mobile 5G network, plus up to $5 cash back when you don’t use it all.

We know these phones won’t last long! https://www.thelightphone.com/shop/products/light-phone-iii

We’re excited to see where this partnership goes and grateful to Noble for believing, like we do, that technology should serve people, not compete endlessly for their attention.