Aaron Yodaiken in NYC and on the internethttps://aryod.com/https://aryod.com/blog/egypt/https://aryod.com/blog/egypt/Creativity has always grappled with originality. Four thousand years ago, the Egyptian Priest Khakheperraseneb lamented his struggle to write something truly new. Yet his anxiety echoes across millennia—from Ecclesiastes declaring "there is nothing new under the sun," to Mark Twain and T.S. Eliot asserting that great art emerges from recombining old ideas. Today, technology—and artificial intelligence in particular—turns Twain’s metaphorical kaleidoscope faster than ever, generating new connections from existing patterns. We may feel late, but like Khakheperraseneb, we’re still remarkably early.Sun, 16 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://aryod.com/blog/asymmetry/https://aryod.com/blog/asymmetry/Balancing speed with quality in software development? Learn my asymmetry framework from scaling Ramp and medical devices. Ship faster without breaking things that matter.Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://aryod.com/blog/onesmallworld/https://aryod.com/blog/onesmallworld/Introducing OneSmallWorld.org, a new, small project that aggregates news from a handful of English-language news sources from around the world, and shares links to the headlines.Sun, 20 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT