Cian Smith

Fond of a retweet and tweeting about eComm. Amazon financing @wayflyerapp

[Cian Smith @ciansmith99]

Absolutely fuming. Had to upgrade iCloud storage.

[Cian Smith @ciansmith99]

@DanielHerley Data is chaotic …don’t get me wrong fantastic app but feel it could be way more interactive ?

[Cian Smith @ciansmith99]

Real question, does Strava actually work?

Is the UI good

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Aryan Siddiqui @Ar_boian]

Brian Chesky's vision for an AI-first world is miles ahead of the Silicon Valley narrative. Haven't seen it this clearly since Steve Jobs.

[Daniel Sinnott @Sinnott74]

Shout out to the #bondi beach life guard who, while there was shots being fired and we were all ducking for cover behind their buggy, noticed someone in the water struggling so grabbed a board and went to rescue them

[Jack Zhang @awxjack]

Stripe offered to acquire us for $1.2 billion when we had $2M in revenue.

Today, we've raised $330M at an $8B valuation and reached $1B ARR.

We could've died three times during this journey.

This is the story I've never told anyone before:

[Cian Smith @ciansmith99]

Would be sound of apple to have a Black Friday iCloud storage sale, phones busted to the brim like when I leave an Italian

[Cian Smith @ciansmith99]

Do people trust people who say “lol” ?

[Cian Smith @ciansmith99]

Serious fomo of Dublin marathon

[Cian Smith @ciansmith99]

Need an old iPod classic with Spotify - who’s shipping this atm

[Ryder Cup Europe @RyderCupEurope]

Speechless, Shane 🥹

#TeamEurope | #OurTimeOurPlace

[Cian Smith @ciansmith99]

*runs into Irish person abroad*
“Anywhere you’d recommend?”
“Paddy’s is great craic”
🫡

[Valtteri Bottas @ValtteriBottas]

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[Cian Smith @ciansmith99]

Drivers putting their hands up when you’ve crossed the road but they’ve speed up by 50km’s in the space of 3 seconds 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Cian Smith @ciansmith99]

one for dtc twitter

[Wayflyer @wayflyerapp]

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗿𝗼𝗽: 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 - 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘉𝘶𝘹𝘵𝘰𝘯’𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰

Episode 2 of Visionaries, live on our Youtube channel now 🔥

https://t.co/Z8YEYj7J77

[cold pics of Manchester United @utdsnaps]

Coldest thing I’ve heard all summer, @FabrizioRomano 🥶

[Cian Smith @ciansmith99]

@__Manveer @maxreilly16

[The 44 ⚽️ @The_Forty_Four]

Angel Correa scored one of the most DISGUSTING goals I’ve seen for Tigres yesterday… 😳

[Muse @xmuse_]

The Making of the Perfect Martini by Guy Buffet, 2000