Can You Lead A Simpler Life?
Harper's BAZAAR Singapore|May 2020
A: Limiting your time online and streamlining your to-do list could boost your productivity.
Julia Hobsbawm
Can You Lead A Simpler Life?

I loved working, and still do. When my career took off in the 1990s, connectivity was exploding: mobile phones (albeit brick-like ones) were beginning to appear; media channels were popping up all over the place with satellite television; the computer was becoming affordable; and the internet was entering the mainstream (along with a new-fangled thing called email). I lapped up all the changes, and believed that the more I could do, the happier I would be.

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