How a month in Tokyo made me trash my multi-monitor setup
I had to work from a tiny studio in Shinjuku last fall, and it changed my whole view on desk space. The Japanese approach is all about saving room and cutting clutter. My host had a single laptop on a slim desk with a wall-mounted light. No extra screens, no keyboard trays, just pure focus. When I got back, I sold my two big monitors and went down to one portable screen. My work got better since I stopped trying to do ten things at once. If your desk looks like a spaceship control panel, you're probably wasting energy. Try a stripped-down setup for a week and see how it feels.