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Education/JUL 09 · 4 MIN
LESSON 01

03. Add only the behavior you need

Start with the document and build outward, one durable layer at a time.

By Sun Kim

Every story in lesson 01 begins with a detail that looks too small to carry the whole piece. This one began there too, with a question that became more useful the longer we left it unanswered.

The document comes before the component

The obvious approach was faster, but it flattened the parts that made the subject specific. We kept the rough edges, followed the evidence, and let the structure emerge from what the material actually needed.

Resilience begins with HTML that already means something.

The result is not a universal method. It is a record of one careful attempt, useful because the constraints remain visible and the reader can decide what belongs in their own work.