Aaron Asaro

Hi, I'm Aaron.

These are my notes as I write-to-think through this wild world of ours.

Electric vehicles - second thoughts on secondhand

11 Jun 2025

My 20-year strategy of buying used cars to save money works great... unless you move to Norway and want an EV. After crunching numbers on 2,420 secondhand electric vehicles, I learned the hard way that 'bargain' and 'battery-powered' don't always play nice together.
Think team diversity is just about equality? You're wrong ❤.

15 Jan 2021

Team diversity is about way more than fixing inequality. When you dig a bit deeper there are ground-truths that show it's a massive competitive advantage.
I want to use my vices to build my virtues

16 Sep 2020

The Waking Up meditation app removed the streaks feature to combat pride in the form of spiritual materialism. It's a missed opportunity to use vices to build a better world.
Moving from a startup codebase to a team codebase

02 Sep 2020

"In a team codebase, anyone can contribute to any part without understanding the whole. We need to change to this. It's going to be hard."
Serving a static site from S3 using Cloudflare Full SSL

12 Aug 2020

Simple instructions to fix the Cloudflare 522 error you get connecting to a static website hosted on AWS S3 when you set Cloudflare's encryption mode to Full SSL. The trick is to serve your static website via Cloudfront.