hello i'm divya and this is a quick intro. a product marketer who quit @Zoho , packed her books, and is moving to SF to go all in on startups. 1/i write a substack called 'in the becoming' that reaches 450 inboxes and make ig videos about questions that keep me up at night. 2/ i'll tell you which book to read next based on one sentence you say. it's worked every time. 3/ you convince me that running is not the best mental therapy? you get 10 of my books. i mean it. at the core, i'm a product growth person. 1/ 3.5 years at @Zoho - campaigns, launches, brand, all of it. 2/ i'm a growth fanatic. i'm obsessed with the product as a founder. anything to move a product forward, i've probably tried it. 3/ i'm a US citizen and i'll be in SF next month, looking to work with founders and startups who are cracked and innovating. if you know someone, connect us, i'd love to talk :)

One of the greatest inventions of mankind: Plane by weight brothers was hugely disregarded for lack of credentials, lack of noise around it and hence the lack of its credibility. They remained quite lowkey with little to no fame until finally in 1942 when the Smithsonian system agreed that they were indeed the first folks to fly a plane. It's remarkable what the combo of minimal noise around disregard for fame pure talent and thirst for innovation can do.

Life's fun when you're up at 3am with photoshop to tweak your portfolio <3

A small retreat in Goa deserves a place in my twitter tl as a reminder that the worst moments in a trip become the in best stories to share in hindsight

Over the past 3 years, i have indulged quite a bit with my adult money to feed my hunger for books and this picture stands as a testament and a place that I can fall back to when I hit lows. In 15 days though, I'm leaving my home and my country to start a new life- which means I'm parting ways with this shelf. So I wanted to make a digital library of sorts with the covers of all the books that I own and have read (as far as I can remember) and put it in my website. I'm so excited for it. Collecting inspos now, will soon complete it and share it :)))

Emerson writing about having an illegible career in Self Reliance. Perhaps this is the way forward? There is a lot of AI induced job insecurity among the youth today, and even those with experience. Try many things, and give ourselves not one but hundred chances.

Why math works so well in describing our universe? Let’s look at it from three perspectives. 1. We grasp the graspable bits By definition, we model aspects of reality that we are capable of modeling. The remaining part may be truly random or complicated. For example, where do quantum measurements come from? Or the incompatibility between general relativity or quantum mechanics. We hit the limits of our models in those cases, so it’s a bit of survivorship bias when we ask ourselves why our models work so well in cases where do they do. 2. The Anthropic Argument Wigner wondered about the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in describing our universe. Out of all universes that could exist, the universes in which any science is possible upper-bounds their complexity (if universe were any more complex, no science is possible as laws would be too complicated and Wigner wouldn’t be asking this question). The lower bound of complexity is given by the fact that Wigner has to exist and hence laws have to be complex enough for intelligent life to be possible. Hence the universe we should find ourselves in should have laws and dynamics to produce life, but simple enough to be understood by the very same life. 3. The Simplicity Prior The Anthropic argument gives us a range, but it seems like our universe is at the simple end of that range. Given that the standard model fits on a page, the question isn’t why laws are graspable but why are they so simple? If you assume a prior over universes where simpler universes are more probable, then we should find ourselves in the simplest universe that’s capable of supporting life (which might be the case with our universe). What would motivate simplicity prior? Well, if we assume some kind of “universe generator” that churns through simpler universes first before getting to more complicated ones, we would find ourselves in the simplest universe that’s complex enough for intelligent life to emerge. 4. So, are there multiverses? Given, how successful Anthropic argument is for illuminating puzzles like Wigner’s makes me seriously consider the possibility that many, many possible universes exist beyond our own but that we just happen to find ourselves in a particular one that’s suited for us. Of course, there’s no way to experimentally prove it (yet), but given that the alternative is assuming our precise universe with specific laws and constants exists as a bridge fact, I’d pick multiverses and Anthropic argument as a more likely explanation for what we observe.

I've been thinking about this fun piece of conversation that I have with some mates, where I choose a questionable place/situation for a person to be in which might not be typically the best place to muster happiness of any kind, and they respond to how they can make the place amazing (with or without the benefit of hindsight) I think it's a really fun way to understand someone's psyche and drive interesting conversations.

Now that I'm moving to a new place in a new country, one obvious thing that I sometimes fail to remember is that 1/ there are a lot of people in this world 2/ all the problems that we are facing have already been faced before 3/ i just need to make the right friends and ask the right questions and make the harder decisions (after the due trial and error) 4/ people are so ready to help because they've been helped before by someone else 5/ ive to stretch the appetite for risk and failure so long that no failure feels big enough 6/ there's always people to resort to during tough times This is also for someone else out there going through the same thing :)

Your fitness and enthusiasm for life is a better indicator of your age than the number of revolutions around the sun.

I have to tendency where I get drawn to reading the histories of places I'm going to (due diligence you see) and im reading the most linguistically rich, fun, etymology of American English Ps- reading about how ok got abbreviated and the American currencies came about lolol

how i'd love help with proofreading :)

being delusional kind of starts with being cringe i guess. it's tough looking cool in the early stages of believing in yourself. you're too excited, too public about it, too unproven. but maybe that's the point, you're supposed to be embarrassing about it.

Woman of hobbies