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Chrisman

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Chrisman

@chrisman

Cofounder/ceo @synthesischool, spinout of the SpaceX lab school. We make a superhuman AI math tutor. Catholic. Dad to 4. American.

California, USA

Joined May 2009

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Chrisman
@chrisman
Jan 15
6yo learning fractions with Synthesis. Teaching style is Socratic. Answer correctly, get increasingly challenging follow-up questions. Lover her proud face at 1:10. That justified pride in what you've learned is the best motivator. Far better than points or leaderboards.
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Chrisman
@chrisman
Sep 18, 2025
9yo asked me "Why are grandparent houses are always bigger than parent houses? Shouldn't it be the other way around?" Oh boy.
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Chrisman
@chrisman
Sep 22, 2024
Here’s a fun related story. I went to the ER with severe stomach pain a few years ago. I googled and one of the most likely explanations is appendicitis. They do MRI. No appendicitis. I say “Isn’t appendicitis bacterial? And therefore subject to exponential growth rates? So it
Michael Thomas
@curious_founder
Sep 20, 2024
I think about this cartoon a lot.
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Chrisman
@chrisman
Nov 14, 2024
Some are calling Elon the "George Soros of the right." That's not really accurate. He's more like 44 George Soros' of the right.
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Chrisman
@chrisman
Dec 27, 2024
Not being cute, this is the darkest vision for America I’ve ever read. No sleepovers, no saturday morning cartoons. No joy. Nothing to look forward to but endless grinding competition. Life itself sacrificed. In its place, “success.”
Vivek Ramaswamy
@VivekGRamaswamy
Dec 26, 2024
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if
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Chrisman
@chrisman
Dec 27, 2024
Vivek is toast. No coming back from this. An apology won’t even do. You can’t apologize for telling people what you *really* think of them.
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Chrisman
@chrisman
Oct 13, 2025
Trying to persuade the 11yo to drop out of 6th grade and return to homeschool. He agrees school is a colossal waste of his time and potential. However, he makes the following (admittedly strong) counterpoint: It has girls.
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Chrisman
@chrisman
Aug 31, 2021
The value of a liberal arts degree just dropped even more.
Chrisman
@chrisman
Sep 24, 2022
Don’t wait too long to have kids. More meaning in one walk around the block with your 6yo than a lifetime of bar nights and brunches.
Chrisman
@chrisman
Jul 5, 2025
Don’t want to spoil it for you. But if the student loan cap is $200k, that is exactly what college is going to cost.
Cheyennae Barbee (DO, MS)
@CMBarbee_
Jul 3, 2025
For the people who voted to cap student loans…this is how much a BS, MS, and doctorate degree costs. Way more than $200,000.
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Chrisman
@chrisman
Aug 1, 2025
Went to El Salvador recently. Asked some women if the country was really safe now. Involuntary smiles lit up their faces. Told me there was no place in the city they wouldn't feel safe walking alone at night. Give this to people and they will beg you to be President for life.
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Chrisman
@chrisman
Mar 10, 2025
wife and I tried watching this. within 5 minutes she says “oh i get it they’re going to keep having mysteries and never tell you the answers so you keep watching forever? turn it off.”
sucks
@powerbottomdad1
Mar 10, 2025
so severance is just cliffhanger slop?? rugged again
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Chrisman
@chrisman
Dec 19, 2024
Baby #4 arrived this morning around 3am. Greeting new life is a mystical experience every time. Never gets old. Feels like we’ve known him forever. He is 8 pounds 7 ounces.
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Chrisman
@chrisman
Nov 6, 2024
Elon just did a hostile takeover of the entire administrative state
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