diff --git a/src/content/staticPages/uses.md b/src/content/staticPages/uses.md
index c970abf9f..5d4a6827d 100644
--- a/src/content/staticPages/uses.md
+++ b/src/content/staticPages/uses.md
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ date: "2026-08-26"
 
 A snapshot of what I build with. Inspired by [uses.tech](https://uses.tech). The bias throughout is toward things that work offline, keep data local, and can be rebuilt from a file in a repository rather than a click in a dashboard.
 
+The list is deliberately broad. I would rather know four languages and the infrastructure under them than one language very well, and the same goes for tools: I keep several in rotation instead of settling on one, because a stack you cannot leave is a stack that eventually picks your problems for you.
+
 ## Hardware
 
 - **Apple Silicon Mac**: main development machine, and where I run local LLMs.
@@ -22,7 +24,7 @@ I live in the terminal, and most of the tooling is a replacement for something o
 - **direnv** for per-project environment, with secrets resolved from the macOS Keychain rather than sitting in a `.envrc`.
 - **chezmoi** for dotfiles, with **age** encrypting the parts that need it.
 - **fnm** for Node versions, a single `.node-version` keeping local and CI in sync.
-- **Claude Code** for day-to-day development.
+- **AI coding harnesses**, more than one on purpose: **Claude Code** day to day, alongside **OpenCode**, **Codex** and whatever else is worth a look. They have genuinely different strengths, the field moves fast enough that committing to one is a bad bet, and running several is the only way to tell which is actually better at a given job rather than which one you are used to.
 
 ## Web stack
 
diff --git a/src/pages/education/index.astro b/src/pages/education/index.astro
index 611e4c556..5cb7a2200 100644
--- a/src/pages/education/index.astro
+++ b/src/pages/education/index.astro
@@ -22,21 +22,24 @@ const education = await Promise.all(
   <Container>
     <div class="space-y-10">
       <h1 class="animate font-semibold text-black dark:text-white">
-        🎓 Education
+        Education
       </h1>
-      <ul class="flex flex-col space-y-8">
+      {/* Same treatment as /work: education entries share `entry-body`, so
+          leaving them on the old rhythm would have made the two pages diverge
+          for no reason. */}
+      <ul class="flex flex-col divide-y divide-black/10 dark:divide-white/10">
         {
           education.map((entry) => (
-            <li class="animate">
-              <div class="text-sm opacity-75">
+            <li class="animate py-9 first:pt-0 last:pb-0">
+              <div class="text-xs uppercase tracking-wider opacity-60">
                 {dateRange(entry.data.dateStart, entry.data.dateEnd)}
               </div>
-              <div class="font-semibold text-black dark:text-white">
+              <div class="mt-1.5 font-semibold text-black dark:text-white">
                 {entry.data.place}
               </div>
               <div class="text-sm opacity-75">{entry.data.role}</div>
               {entry.body?.trim() && (
-                <div class="entry-body mt-2">
+                <div class="entry-body mt-5">
                   <entry.Content />
                 </div>
               )}
diff --git a/src/pages/index.astro b/src/pages/index.astro
index 2e8389c2a..a79922b30 100644
--- a/src/pages/index.astro
+++ b/src/pages/index.astro
@@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ const education = await Promise.all(
       <section class="animate space-y-6">
         <div class="flex flex-wrap gap-y-2 items-center justify-between">
           <h2 class="font-semibold text-xl text-black dark:text-white">
-            📱 Apps I've built
+            Apps I've built
           </h2>
-          <Link href="/projects">⭐ See all projects</Link>
+          <Link href="/projects">See all projects →</Link>
         </div>
         <ul class="animate-stagger grid grid-cols-1 sm:grid-cols-2 gap-4">
           {
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ const education = await Promise.all(
 
       <section class="animate space-y-4">
         <h2 class="font-semibold text-xl text-black dark:text-white">
-          👋 A little about me
+          A little about me
         </h2>
         <Image
           class="animate rounded-md"
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ const education = await Promise.all(
 
       <section class="animate space-y-4">
         <h2 class="font-semibold text-xl text-black dark:text-white">
-          🤖 AI consulting
+          AI consulting
         </h2>
         <p>
           The apps above are proof I can take an idea and ship it end to end. If
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ const education = await Promise.all(
           <h2 class="font-semibold text-xl text-black dark:text-white">
             Recent projects
           </h2>
-          <Link href="/projects">⭐ See all projects</Link>
+          <Link href="/projects">See all projects →</Link>
         </div>
         <ul class="animate-stagger flex flex-col gap-4">
           {
@@ -176,20 +176,20 @@ const education = await Promise.all(
           <h2 class="font-semibold text-xl text-black dark:text-white">
             Work Experience
           </h2>
-          <Link href="/work">🏢 See all work</Link>
+          <Link href="/work">See all work →</Link>
         </div>
-        <ul class="animate-stagger flex flex-col space-y-8">
+        <ul class="animate-stagger flex flex-col divide-y divide-black/10 dark:divide-white/10">
           {
             work.map((entry) => (
-              <li>
-                <div class="text-sm opacity-75">
+              <li class="py-9 first:pt-0 last:pb-0">
+                <div class="text-xs uppercase tracking-wider opacity-60">
                   {dateRange(entry.data.dateStart, entry.data.dateEnd)}
                 </div>
-                <div class="font-semibold text-black dark:text-white">
+                <div class="mt-1.5 font-semibold text-black dark:text-white">
                   {entry.data.company}
                 </div>
                 <div class="text-sm opacity-75">{entry.data.role}</div>
-                <div class="entry-body mt-2">
+                <div class="entry-body mt-5">
                   <entry.Content />
                 </div>
               </li>
@@ -203,16 +203,16 @@ const education = await Promise.all(
           <h2 class="font-semibold text-xl text-black dark:text-white">
             Education
           </h2>
-          <Link href="/education">🎓 See all education</Link>
+          <Link href="/education">See all education →</Link>
         </div>
-        <ul class="animate-stagger flex flex-col space-y-4">
+        <ul class="animate-stagger flex flex-col space-y-5">
           {
             education.map((entry) => (
               <li>
-                <div class="text-sm opacity-75">
+                <div class="text-xs uppercase tracking-wider opacity-60">
                   {dateRange(entry.data.dateStart, entry.data.dateEnd)}
                 </div>
-                <div class="font-semibold text-black dark:text-white">
+                <div class="mt-1.5 font-semibold text-black dark:text-white">
                   {entry.data.place}
                 </div>
                 <div class="text-sm opacity-75">{entry.data.role}</div>
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ const education = await Promise.all(
 
       <section class="animate space-y-4">
         <h2 class="font-semibold text-xl text-black dark:text-white">
-          🤝 Let's connect
+          Let's connect
         </h2>
         <p>
           Questions about an app, an invite to a beta, or a consulting project?
diff --git a/src/pages/projects/index.astro b/src/pages/projects/index.astro
index 7d2351b69..ce1b0cb6e 100644
--- a/src/pages/projects/index.astro
+++ b/src/pages/projects/index.astro
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ const hackathons = all.filter((project) => HACKATHON_SLUGS.includes(project.id))
     <div class="space-y-10">
       <section class="space-y-4">
         <h1 class="animate font-semibold text-black dark:text-white">
-          ⭐️ Projects
+          Projects
         </h1>
         <ul class="animate flex flex-col gap-4">
           {
diff --git a/src/pages/work/index.astro b/src/pages/work/index.astro
index ea9b91b6e..868835a49 100644
--- a/src/pages/work/index.astro
+++ b/src/pages/work/index.astro
@@ -22,20 +22,27 @@ const work = await Promise.all(
   <Container>
     <div class="space-y-10">
       <h1 class="animate font-semibold text-black dark:text-white">
-        🏢 Work
+        Work
       </h1>
-      <ul class="flex flex-col space-y-8">
+      {/* A rule between entries, not just a gap. With space alone and every
+          block inside an entry sharing one rhythm, the boundary between two
+          jobs looked the same as the boundary between two paragraphs of one
+          job, so eight years read as a single column of text. */}
+      <ul class="flex flex-col divide-y divide-black/10 dark:divide-white/10">
         {
           work.map((entry) => (
-            <li class="animate">
-              <div class="text-sm opacity-75">
+            <li class="animate py-9 first:pt-0 last:pb-0">
+              {/* Date, company and role are one unit and are set tight, then a
+                  deliberate gap before the body. Previously all three and the
+                  body shared the same spacing, so the entry had no header. */}
+              <div class="text-xs uppercase tracking-wider opacity-60">
                 {dateRange(entry.data.dateStart, entry.data.dateEnd)}
               </div>
-              <h2 class="font-semibold text-black dark:text-white">
+              <h2 class="mt-1.5 font-semibold text-black dark:text-white">
                 {entry.data.company}
               </h2>
               <div class="text-sm opacity-75">{entry.data.role}</div>
-              <div class="entry-body mt-2">
+              <div class="entry-body mt-5">
                 <entry.Content />
               </div>
             </li>
diff --git a/src/styles/global.css b/src/styles/global.css
index 36b68af7d..c3139a879 100644
--- a/src/styles/global.css
+++ b/src/styles/global.css
@@ -115,16 +115,52 @@ html.dark article.longform {
      company and role around it rather than the long-form serif style. */
   .entry-body {
     @apply text-sm;
+    /* A measure, not the full container. At the 840px container width these
+       paragraphs ran to roughly 95 characters, well past the 60-75 the eye
+       tracks comfortably, which is half of why the section read as a wall. */
+    @apply max-w-[68ch];
   }
 
   .entry-body > * + * {
-    @apply mt-2;
+    @apply mt-3;
+  }
+
+  .entry-body p {
+    @apply leading-relaxed;
   }
 
   .entry-body strong {
     @apply font-semibold text-black dark:text-white;
   }
 
+  /* The section labels. In these entries a subheading is written as `**label**`
+     alone on a line, because a real heading here would collide with the page's
+     h1/h2 order. Markdown renders that as a paragraph containing nothing but a
+     bold run, which is exactly what this matches.
+
+     Before this, every block in the entry carried the same 8px gap and the same
+     weight, so the labels did not separate anything: four paragraphs of prose
+     with four bold words between them read as one undifferentiated wall. The
+     fix is asymmetric spacing, a lot above and very little below, so each label
+     binds to the paragraph it introduces instead of floating between two. */
+  .entry-body p:has(> strong:only-child) {
+    @apply mt-7 mb-1 text-xs uppercase tracking-[0.14em];
+    @apply text-black/55 dark:text-white/45;
+  }
+
+  /* Overrides the general `strong` rule above, which would otherwise make the
+     label the highest-contrast thing in the entry and pull the eye to the
+     signpost rather than the content. */
+  .entry-body p:has(> strong:only-child) strong {
+    @apply font-medium text-black/55 dark:text-white/45;
+  }
+
+  /* The first label in an entry follows the intro paragraph and link, so it
+     does not need the full separation that the ones between prose blocks do. */
+  .entry-body > p:has(> strong:only-child):first-child {
+    @apply mt-0;
+  }
+
   .entry-body ul {
     @apply list-disc pl-5;
   }