If you look at the ohdavid logo, you'll see five interlocking circles with a lightning bolt running through them. That shape isn't decorative — it's drawn from the Seed of Life, one of the oldest geometric patterns in human history. I chose it because I think it tells the best creation story I've ever encountered, and it maps to how I think about building anything.
Here's how it goes.
The Void
Before anything, there's nothing. Not empty — infinite. Pure potential. No shape, no movement, no time. Just the silence before the first sound. Every project starts here. Every company. Every song. There's a moment before the first mark where everything is possible and nothing exists yet.
The First Circle
Then something moves. Consciousness stirs within itself. The first circle appears — the first vibration, the first act of self-awareness. In cosmology, this is the Big Bang. In building a company, it's the moment you say "I think there's something here." One circle. One idea. One pulse.
The Second Circle
A second circle overlaps the first, and suddenly there's duality. Light and dark. Push and pull. The tension that makes movement possible. You can't build anything without contrast — without the friction between what is and what could be. This is where polarity enters the picture, and creation starts to have direction.
The Third Circle
The third circle creates the Vesica Piscis — that almond-shaped space where two circles overlap. It's the geometry of union. The divine womb from which all forms emerge. In many traditions, this is the trinity: mind, body, spirit. In practice, it's the moment a team forms, or an idea meets execution, or vision meets constraint.
The Web Expands
Circles four, five, and six multiply the pattern. Interconnected petals appear. Elements, forces, and dimensions unfold in harmony. This is nature's order playing out — from atoms to galaxies, from cells to ecosystems. In a startup, this is the phase where systems start talking to each other. The product connects to the customer connects to the operation.
The Seventh Circle
The seventh circle completes the Seed. It's the number of completion — echoed in the seven days of creation, the seven notes of a scale, the seven chakras. This is the moment of fulfillment: the fully manifested thing. Life, consciousness, and interconnectedness in form.
The Blueprint Keeps Going
But the Seed of Life isn't a finished product. It's a starting pattern that unfolds into the Flower of Life, the Tree of Life, and increasingly complex geometries. It's fractal — each piece contains the whole.
That's what I see in building things. Every system I create is a seed of something larger. Every website contains the DNA of the full platform it could become. Every consulting engagement plants something that keeps growing after I leave.
The creation story, told through geometry, is really about one thing: everything emerges from a single point of awareness, and it never stops expanding.
