DivZero is a community of young Korean professionals pursuing exponential growth. Through private discussions, panels, and events, we push each other to take on ever-harder challenges, compounding our ability. Like division by zero, we aim toward infinity.
Nov 2025
Exponential Growth
Growth stays exponential only if the difficulty rises with the ability — the discussion behind our name.
Aug 2026
Korea’s Next Move in AI
Claude Fable’s worldwide suspension recast frontier AI as a strategic asset, not just technology. Korea holds the memory layer, China is opening its weights — should every country own a frontier model?
Nov 2024
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Naval’s three forms of leverage — labor, capital, code — and which one each of us actually built, at what cost, and what it taught us.
Feb 2025
The Next Gateway
A $500B Stargate, a new administration, and DeepSeek R1 — all inside the first twenty days of 2025. Silicon Valley perspectives on how to read them.
Jun 2025
Shaped by Cities, Driven by Ambition
Paul Graham’s Cities and Ambition — every city sends a message: be powerful, be rich, be smart, be famous. Koreans shaped by cities worldwide on the message they carry, and what Seoul and Busan add.
Founders
You can talk yourself into almost anything. For years, I called my ambition a choice. But what you can’t talk yourself into is a quickened pulse. So I stopped deciding what I should want and started noticing what makes my heart race before I can explain why. Pulse by pulse, my ambitions reveal themselves, including ones I never knew I had. My priority is to place myself where my pulse still races after the novelty wears off.
The realizations I value most are the ones that travel. They begin with one problem, then quietly reach beyond it, revealing a pattern no single instance could show. But ideas rarely travel that far on their own. They gain range by meeting other ideas and perspectives. One insight reframes another, and partial views come together until a larger structure appears. I strive to work in much the same way: moving across contexts, tracing what connects them, and bringing people and ideas into contact. What moves me is the moment an underlying abstraction becomes more than an answer to one question and begins to travel from one mind to another, gathering meaning and consequence as it goes.
I do what I do because I aspire to make sense of myself and leave something meaningful behind. Everything I think circles the same questions: what matters, who I’m becoming, and whether my contributions are positive. Beneath it all, I want to understand, to be understood, and to know that my time here mattered.
I was born with a bad memory, so I learned to think instead. I keep a small set of first principles and derive everything else from them. Since every derivation must converge on the same solution, each step has to feel inevitable. Solutions built this way are simple and beautiful, which is why I see complex solutions as a sign of incomplete understanding. Constantly rebuilding ideas trained me to think clearly, and my greatest weakness became my strength. I believe every weakness hides a gift, and I hope we can help each other find it.