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Other people's light

None of this is self-made. These are debts, named one by one, because vague gratitude is only politeness.

Books and writing that rearranged something

  1. The Pillow Book, Sei Shōnagon: this whole site is downstream of her lists, which are a thousand years old and still more personal than most things posted today.
  2. Calvino, Invisible Cities: proof that a structure can be the story.
  3. Add the book you actually reread, not the one that impresses.

Tools I use and would defend

  1. Claude. I built this site in conversation with it, and I'm not embarrassed by that. The taste stayed mine, and the arguing helped.
  2. n8n, which runs the quiet automations that hold my routines together.
  3. NotebookLM, for reading collections too large for my attention alone.
  4. Plain HTML and CSS: the most durable technology I've used. This page will still open in thirty years.

People whose standards I borrowed ＊

  1. The teacher who returned my work with one question instead of a grade.
  2. The internet stranger whose repository taught me what care looks like in code.

placeholder page-note: entries marked ＊ need your real books, tools, and people. The Shōnagon, Claude, n8n, and plain-HTML entries reflect this project's actual history. Edit freely, but they are true as written.