Your mockup’s list section

Yes, worth reducing. Your mockup’s list section uses one-line excerpts (“It’s not laziness. It’s a very human kind of fear.”) specifically because this is a scanning-focused list layout, not the featured single-post spot where a longer excerpt earns its place. Right now your “Test is a test post” and the long “I have notebooks full of ideas…” excerpt are pulling attention away from the titles and making rows uneven in height, which breaks the clean, evenly-spaced rhythm your design is going for.