Remember when a weekend was just a weekend? There were no Slack notifications, Instagram DMs from customers or "quick" emails that somehow turned into a 45-minute task. You could leave the house without your phone and, remarkably, survive. If you're a small business owner in your mid-to-late thirties, you probably remember a time before our entire lives lived inside a screen. The internet existed, but it didn't follow you everywhere. You made plans without a group chat, took

The Return to Real Life: Why Perth Businesses Are Craving a Little Less Digital There’s something quietly interesting happening in Perth. We’re living in one of the most connected cities in Australia, with small businesses that can sell to customers around the world from a laptop in Fremantle, Subiaco or Canning Vale. And yet, increasingly, we seem to want to put the phone down. We want a Saturday morning without checking emails, a dinner without photographing it and a conver