Making

  • A calmer archive with fewer decisions per page.
  • A stricter image system (two styles, fixed formats).
  • A small set of tokens that everything must obey.

Discarding

  • “Pretty” without purpose.
  • Pages that exist to fill space.
  • Images that don’t carry meaning.

Learning

  • Good defaults beat clever customization.
  • Scarcity (of color, motion, words) reads as confidence.