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Documenter 286aa12bb0 site: cut the template's own labels out of the pages
Point 7 of the page-wording review. The pages no longer show their data
structure as headings, and they no longer explain their own conventions.

- Level 1 is one screen: claim, status badge, three figures, the technology
  row, and one sentence carrying one link. Measured in headless Chrome at
  1440x900: 1404-1845 px tall before, exactly 900 px (no scroll) after, on
  all six area pages.
- DocPage: no kicker line, no visible level label, no "Evidence for this
  page" heading or instruction note, no "Drill-downs" list, no
  "Status <word> - sentence" footer. The artefact table starts at level 2,
  under the heading "Artefacts"; the history timeline is level 2 only.
- Landing page: "Start here" link text gone, "How to read this site" panel
  gone, the footer's status-label explainer gone.
- Content, presentation only, no claim softened: the leading H1 that
  duplicated the page title removed from all 41 documents; level 1 bodies
  reduced to the constraint as ordinary prose plus the way in;
  "**Status: ...**" prefixes removed from the artefact stubs; "## Drill-downs"
  and "## Period and confidence" removed from the level 2 pages, with the
  cross-area links moved into the prose.
- The six level 1 claims are now sentences with a subject, and use commas
  instead of middots. Same facts, no new ones.

Not in this commit: the 35 level 2 and 3 claims still use the compact CV
style. That is a voice decision for Sam, not a wording tidy-up.

make validate: 41 documents, 0 violations. go test ./...: pass.

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about-interests about 3 Artefact — Interests · one honest line each Fourteen pursuits with one true sentence each — and the invented venues · results and trips from the previous version of this site deleted rather than restated. running 1980–
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Music

Blues and jazz piano and blues harp; played in two bands. Studied music composition at university and kept the piano as the thing that resets the week.

Fine art

A fine arts degree and a continuing practice. Drawing and painting taught patience with iteration, which is most of debugging.

Philosophy

A degree's worth of it, and it is where the habit of asking what a thing is actually for came from.

Skiing

Italy, France, Japan and Australia. Six months based in Meribel in the French Alps as a chalet chef, including the Vallée Blanche glacier run.

Camping

Hiking, camping and canoeing, mostly in Victoria. Most recent: a two-day hike through Wilsons Promontory with a group of teenagers in tow.

Canoeing

The Yarra, the Otways and the Murray.

Horse riding

Grew up riding in the Otways; broke horses from track work back to dressage; guided tours in the Victorian high country; competed in dressage for two years.

Surfing

Grew up between Lorne and the Otways, on waves and horses.

Hiking

The walking version of the camping answer: long days, small pack, no phone signal.

Global politics

The master's was in it. Reading it is a habit, not a credential to display.

Reading

History, philosophy, politics, economics — the same four subjects as the degrees, which is either consistency or a rut.

Cooking

Worked in many restaurants and as chef in a five-star chalet in Meribel, France.

Gardening

Permaculture and a wood-chip, low-input approach to self-sufficiency, with sensors and automation doing the boring parts.

Food production

Bees, salami and cheese. Two hives, and salami made annually from four pigs with Italian friends in Benalla.

Italy and travel

Five years spent overseas, travelling extensively, with Italy as the standing preference.

What was deleted, and why

The previous site claimed venues, competition results, swell sizes, distances and named restaurants. None of it could be traced. It has been cut rather than corrected: a single true sentence is worth more than ten specific ones that cannot be substantiated, and an interviewer who asks a follow-up question is entitled to an answer that survives it.

Coverage limit

Everything above traces to Sam's own notes. Anything not in those notes is absent, not paraphrased.