William O Brien

Founder of See My Skills and Wm O Brien Self Storage. @Seemyskills23

[William O Brien @ribrab]

@OfficialHob :)

[will o’brien @Willob]

Ulysses has raised $46M led by a16z American Dynamism.

We are building The Ocean Company.

The ocean is 71% of the planet. But it is less explored than Mars, and full of secrets, waiting to be told.

It is the backbone of global defense. Home to the critical infrastructure that powers our world. And the key to the health of our planet.

This frontier needs technology to protect and steward it.

We are building it. And we need more builders

Join us and explore the Great Blue Frontier: https://t.co/bYBDQiTUSM

[William O Brien @ribrab]

@Willob & he was a gentleman to deal with!

[William O Brien @ribrab]

@Willob Amen!!!

[William O Brien @ribrab]

@OfficialHob Yes please

[William O Brien @ribrab]

@Willob Granny would be delighted!

[harry o brien @OfficialHob]

low vo2 max might kill you but high vo2 max won't save you

[William O Brien @ribrab]

@NoahRevoy @anxietymsgs Years ago, when life flattened me, I did one simple thing.
I wrote down everything I loved — from sunshine to my kids to old childhood memories.
I repeated it constantly.
Slowly, my nervous system settled. My head cleared.
Six weeks later, I was back on my feet.

[William O Brien @ribrab]

You see- if I said this no one would bother listening!:)
Good man Jeff!!!

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Bezos is talking about cognitive geometry.

Most humans are trapped in a locally rational frame.
Their decisions optimize for stability inside a narrow slice of reality because evolution trained us to survive environments where the future looked like the past. In that regime, thinking small is not cowardice. It is adaptive.

But civilization stopped being locally linear a long time ago.

Once systems become exponential, networked, and reflexive, the primary danger flips. The real risk is no longer downside. The real risk is missing the slope.

Bezos understood something very few people consciously grasp:

Ambition is not about ego. It is about matching the scale of your intent to the scale of the system you are operating in.

If the system compounds, small intent is not conservative. It is irrational.

Here is the part people do not like to admit:

Most people do not think small because they are afraid of failing.
They think small because thinking big forces an identity rewrite.

Big thinking obligates you to confront:
•your own inadequacy
•your own ignorance
•your own unfinished inner architecture

It demands you become someone else.

So people reverse-causal it. They say the opportunity is small so they can stay small without admitting they are choosing comfort over transformation.

Bezos did the opposite. He assumed the opportunity was large first, then allowed reality to correct him. Most people wait for reality to grant permission. It never does.

And here is the deepest truth underneath all of it:

Thinking small is not just a self-fulfilling prophecy economically.
It is a spiritual containment strategy.

It keeps your world legible.
It keeps your social circle intact.
It keeps your self-image stable.

Thinking big destabilizes everything. Friends. Identity. Narrative. Moral certainty. That is why it is so rare.

So no, Bezos is not saying “believe in yourself.”

He is saying:

If you mis-size your ambition relative to the true structure of the world, reality will quietly erase you, and you will call it prudence.

That is the signal.

[will o’brien @Willob]

My younger, funnier and one day more successful brother @Jacobobriennnn is back on Twitter - give him a follow

He’s in his last year of college & wants to work in startups

What advice do you have for him?

I think he should move to SF, work as an SDR (he’s non technical) in a startup w great culture to see what good looks like & meet great people

[William O Brien @ribrab]

A little bit of fun!!!
Feel free to share…

[William O Brien @ribrab]

Take 6 minutes out of your day to watch this beautiful video! https://t.co/dpMswsZOSa

[will o’brien @Willob]

Tonight we got 80+ ambitious, creative, builders in a room & discussed how could we make Ireland radically better

We can do it

Our time has come

The counterculture is brewing

Join us @EireAcc

Special thanks to our speakers @pwlsh @Keyes @ParsonsFintan @patjfin @dpnolan

[William O Brien @ribrab]

@willob He actually looks a bit like your dad!!!

[will o’brien @Willob]

🇮🇪🤖 Éire Accelerationism x Dalkey Book Festival 📚

I am excited to share that I will be speaking on two panels at this year’s festival!

Panel 1: discussing the core ideas of @EireAcc with @EmmaBWaldron @18for0 @davidmcw & @finn_mcredmond

Panel 2: reimagining Ireland in the 21st century with @18for0 @jenoconnell @fotoole & @laoneill111

Very excited to share our vision for Ireland’s future with more people :) let’s get way more ambitious and make Ireland radically more prosperous.

Book tickets and join us @dalkeybookfest !!

[William O Brien @ribrab]

@willob What way does your dad store his????

[William O Brien @ribrab]

Proud Dad post….45k likes!!!

[will o’brien @Willob]

This is what the vault inside the Irish Federal Reserve looks like

[William O Brien @ribrab]

Never been so proud to collect a new business card!!!

[BHs @BISHOPHISOCIETY]

men from the factory carrying a 200 yard long plastic pipe past the courthouse in May 1966. The destination for the pipe was Goulding's Fertilizers on the Centre Park Road.

[BHs @BISHOPHISOCIETY]

Bishopstown Plastics was founded and opened in Ardrostig by William O Brien(Crane Hire- Dont Risk it- Let O Brien Lift it) in 1961. The company employed up to 70 men at their peak and manufactured pipes and corrugated sheeting for the building trade. The picture below shows 25