Divyanaras

product marketing and growth @zoho
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[Divyanaras @divyapshere]

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 :)

[Divyanaras @divyapshere]

@majamediaco The only sane way to make good decisions for

[Divyanaras @divyapshere]

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.

[Divyanaras @divyapshere]

i'm very curious what emergence means to you - i'm very interested in the emergence in social systems and groups. since i'm in my early 20s, exploring the importance of upwards social movement through people at an elemental stage which is layered on top with entities like schools, industries and businesses seems vv intriguing.

there's obviously so much more to it, would love to chat

[Divyanaras @divyapshere]

I think a flip way to look at this is to store names on the contact book better. I think that solves most of the problems with minimal maintenance. Simple idea-

name: where do we know them in first contact: which place do we know them from.

Notes if any. <this gets updated>

This way, searching for the contact when we need something also gets easier.

Imo, we're bombarded by applications and work frames that we look past the obvious solutions? Just an idea that I'm floating :)

[Divyanaras @divyapshere]

@aishwarya_08 Hello Ash, I'm moving to the sf in a few days, would be really cool if we could speak cuz I could take some notes. Lmk :)))

[Divyanaras @divyapshere]

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

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@TarlonKhoubyari @br___ian Thanks a lotttt, i been desperate to find a place to live

[Divyanaras @divyapshere]

@Muskanjain0401 Hi Muskan, your journey is amazing, I would love to talk to you since I'm moving to the sf in 10 days for gtm and growth roles - would you be okay to chat for 10 minutes?

[Divyanaras @divyapshere]

@kaafichillscene Own your stuff&gt;apps bro

[Divyanaras @divyapshere]

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 :)))

[Divyanaras @divyapshere]

@vivianazchen that is so true!!

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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

[Divyanaras @divyapshere]

@majamediaco @joey_f6 Ofcourse, thanks a lot!!

[Vatsal @vtslkshk]

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.

[Divyanaras @divyapshere]

@majamediaco @joey_f6 I see, hello hello @joey_f6, I'm writing something on emergence btw, would love to send it to you if you're interested:)

[Divyanaras @divyapshere]

@liri_s5 I'm moving to sf, California :))))

[Divyanaras @divyapshere]

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 :)

[Divyanaras @divyapshere]

that is so true, this is something i genuinely struggle with. my natural gravitation towards very nuanced and hard words in english is a real problem when people come tell me your writing is very complex. i completely agree that we need to write more simply, for writing is an exercise to break down complexity into simplicity. but that being said, style in writing comes with employing a certain kind of sinuosity to it which can often be confused with complex writing, when the author really is just coming from a place of comfort and art. so, while i do understand that i'm not reaching as many people as I should, i don't know how to simplify my writing without losing my essence. it's a conundrum i think most writers go through.

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

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.