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Research & Writing.

There is a quality some brands have that the rest don't — a sense that the form, voice, and posture of the thing could not have been anything else. We call this inevitability. It's not the same as polish.

September 2025 · Shaleem AnjumRead →

Practice8 min read

Notes on building for three continents

When people hear "distributed studio" they imagine a coordination problem. It is not really a coordination problem. It is a writing problem.

August 2025Shamain Anjum

Engineering7 min read

The architecture of web performance

The first thing we tell clients who want to speed up their site: stop trying to speed it up. The site is slow because its architecture allows it to be slow.

July 2025Shamain Anjum