Connor Murphy 🌁

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If your ancestors lived in Ireland in the 1800s, you are 9 times more likely to live in the USA than Ireland.

.@newtgingrich and I were delighted to attend a St. Patrick’s Day celebration hosted by Ambassador Aoife McGarry and Mr. Connor Murphy from Ireland.🍀

Ambassador Callista L. Gingrich and Speaker Newt Gingrich were delighted to attend a St. Patrick’s Day celebration hosted by Ambassador Aoife McGarry and Mr. Connor Murphy from Ireland.🍀

The fertiliser crisis - 40% of urea processed from gas in the gulf. Meant to be used by farmers this quarter. Crop yields will be a lot lower this year. Good pod on the 2nd order impacts of the war podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/odd…

@FinnMurphy12 @tylercowen It must be a sign of "deep thinking mode" for humans :)

@ConnorPM @tylercowen we did not co-ordinate the jumpers - but they are cosy

Hi AI - can you merge the intelligence and infectious curiosity of @tylercowen with the optimism and risk appetite of @FinnMurphy12 - maybe throw in some cups of teas and wooly jumpers for the craic :) Looking forward to listening to this in full

100 percent

21% in Ireland

@jefielding The teams do that “bit” :) I.e. the team picks the thesis, market… We just pick the teams

@ConnorPM True. But building bits or atoms?

Half the VCs I know are changing their focus areas / investment thesis right now. Feels like a moment of deep reflection - or panic.

@0xgaut Truth - I've used the phrase "product owners" which I think might be more accurate

engineers coming to terms with having to become PMs

Guess I will have to talk to the kids...

I have been posting repeatedly on X about the extraordinarily fast collapse of births across the planet: in rich and poor countries, in fast-growing and slow-growing economies, in religious and secular societies, under right-wing and left-wing governments, with high taxes and with low taxes. The pattern is universal. I knew this trend would continue. Still, the figures released this morning left me genuinely speechless. China’s government announced on Monday (see screenshot below) that births in 2025 fell to 7.92 million, a staggering 1.62 million fewer than in 2024, and that the total fertility rate has dropped to 0.93. Few economists have been more forceful than yours truly in arguing that births are collapsing, yet even I was surprised by these numbers. I was forecasting around 8.5 million births, not 7.92. To put this into perspective: if China could somehow sustain 7.92 million births per year from now on, its population would eventually stabilize at roughly 625 million, far below today’s 1.405 billion. In reality, as smaller cohorts reach childbearing age, births will fall well below 7.92 million. Hence, 625 million is a very generous upper bound, even under implausibly optimistic assumptions about life expectancy. Put differently, there were fewer births in China in 2025 than in 1776, the year the United States declared independence. I am still trying to process these numbers. This is the defining issue of our time.

@patrickc @cursor_ai 2026 is shaping up to be the the year of "Ralph Wiggum" mode :)

This work by @cursor_ai is, I think, the coolest AI breakthrough since GPT-4. (And there are plenty of candidates!) simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/19/sc…

Was great to bump into @RoryStewartUK today… as I was literally listening to the latest @RestIsPolitics Leading episode with @campbellclaret 3D podcast’s are the future ;)

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And the beauty is, you never really know how it will go. It’s often just a feeling. A small moment you almost forget.

I’ve seen introductions change lives. A friendship. An idea. A company. An investment. A career. A marriage. Sometimes all it takes is one intro.

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