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Other people's light

Nothing here is self-made. These are the debts — named specifically, because gratitude that stays vague is just politeness.

Books and writing that rearranged something

  1. The Pillow Book, Sei Shōnagon — this entire site is downstream of her lists. A thousand years old and more personal than most things posted today.
  2. Calvino, Invisible Cities — for proving 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 am not embarrassed by that. The taste decisions stayed mine; the arguing helped.
  2. n8n — for 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 have ever used. This page will 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.