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A star-forming nebula with a bright young star cluster at its core, teal and violet gas clouds and dark dust lanes threading through, against a dense star field

The Plan Comes Second

We start from a question we can’t stop asking, and only then work out the plan.

Dr. Karim El Khaldi1 min read
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A banded teal gas giant lit from the upper right, its multi-banded ring passing in front of and behind it, with a small cratered moon

What “Client-Centric” Actually Costs

Putting the client first sometimes means building what they need instead of what they asked for.

Abdallah Diab2 min read
Four comets on different paths across a dense star field, one tail crossing a faint teal and violet nebula, with two meteor streaks

Why We Don’t Ship the Obvious Answer

The first idea is only the one that came to mind first, so we treat it as a starting point.

Dr. Karim El Khaldi2 min read
A black hole off-centre in a deep star field, its glowing accretion disk bent around the dark core by gravitational lensing, warm at the inner edge and teal further out

The Weight of “Yes, We Could”

Being able to build something isn’t a reason to build it, especially when someone trusts us with their health.

Abdallah Diab2 min read
Tall columns of dark gas and dust rising from a cloud bank against a glowing teal nebula and dense star field, their ragged edges lit from the upper right and young stars glinting inside them

What We Mean by Simple

Simple is about how little a person has to think to use something correctly, not how clean it looks.

Dr. Karim El Khaldi2 min read
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