chris

Investor, technologist, Former Co-founder of software company specializing in server monitoring software now owned by HP), snowboarder, triathlete, and father.

[chris @candersoh]

@TeslaBoomerMama 🙏

[chris @candersoh]

@TeslaBoomerMama 🤞

[AleXandra Merz 🇺🇲 @TeslaBoomerMama]

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[AleXandra Merz 🇺🇲 @TeslaBoomerMama]

Listen!
Then listen again!
Then do what you have to do!

[chris @candersoh]

@realroseceline Very well said. Bookmarked!

[chris @candersoh]

@TeslaBoomerMama 💯

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just exposed the one lie every modern nation tells itself.

Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon.”

Rotary phones. Computers the size of rooms. Slide rules.

We put a human on the moon with less processing power than your watch.

Musk: “Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.”

The most advanced nation in human history went from footprints on the moon to zero capability of leaving the atmosphere.

That is not a funding problem.

That is civilizational decay dressed up as a policy decision.

Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.”

That sentence should keep you up tonight.

We treat progress like gravity. Like it pulls us forward whether we try or not.

It is the opposite.

Progress is a boulder on a hill. The second you stop pushing, it rolls back over you. And it never announces itself.

Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.”

They did not run out of stone.

They were not conquered.

They got comfortable. And the knowledge bled out so quietly that nobody noticed until it was already gone.

That is the real threat to everything we have built.

Not a nuclear flash. Not an asteroid. Not some dramatic Hollywood collapse.

A quiet forgetting.

Every chip we fabricate. Every rocket we launch. Every data center we power. All of it held together by a thin fraction of the population working at a pace that would break most people.

The moment that fraction gets tired or outnumbered by people who believe the machine runs itself, everything dissolves.

And here is the part nobody wants to say out loud.

We are not special. We are running the same operating system as every civilization that came before us.

Comfort is the sedative. Complacency is the flatline.

One generation that stops fighting is all it has ever taken.

You do not lose the future in a war.

You lose it in your sleep.

[Stefan Moore ★ @2StefanMoore]

A final piece of advice from Holly Butcher - written the day before she passed away from cancer at just 27:

“It’s a strange thing knowing you’re going to die young.

At 26, I thought I had time…
To fall in love.
Start a family.
Grow old.

But cancer doesn’t care about plans.

Now, I understand how fragile life really is. Every single day is a gift, not a guarantee.

I’m not writing this to scare you. I’m writing to remind you: really live.

Stop stressing over little things. Be kind to your body- move it, nourish it, stop criticizing it. One day you’ll wish you had appreciated it.

Go outside.
Look at the sky.
Feel the sun.
Just be.

Spend less time chasing “stuff” - more time making memories. Don’t skip moments with people you love.

Laugh more.
Write a note.
Tell someone you love them.

Complain less.
Give more.
Helping others brings more joy than anything you can buy.

Be present.
Put your phone down.
Show up - really show up.

You don’t need to have it all figured out. You don’t need a perfect body, or a perfect life.

Just follow what makes your heart light up. Say no to what drains you. Make changes when you need to.

And please - donate blood. I wouldn’t have had that extra year without it. And that year gave me memories I’ll hold close… forever.

Thank you for reading this.
Live your life well.

And maybe… we’ll meet again someday.”

Holly 🩷

Repost & share Holly’s important advice. ❤️

[Danny cheng @dannycheng2022]

If you sold on April 8 in both 2025 and 2026, the stock market is clearly not for you. Sorry, but that's the brutal truth.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The Man Who Gave Away Patagonia
Doug Tompkins sold his stake in The North Face for $50,000. 

He used the money to co-found Esprit. Then he sold that too, and did something almost no one does with a fortune: he disappeared.

He moved to the tip of South America in 1990 with a theory most businessmen would find absurd.

He believed the best thing a rich man could do was buy wilderness before someone else destroyed it, then hand it back to the country it belonged to.

Together with his wife Kris, a former CEO of Patagonia clothing, they bought and conserved more than 2 million acres across Chile and Argentina. For context: that is roughly the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. Most of it had been degraded farmland. Overgrazed, stripped, exhausted.

The Valle Chacabuco ranch alone had been one of South America’s largest sheep operations. They bought it in 2004 for $10 million, then spent another $55 million over 20 years restoring the grasslands. 

Pumas returned. Guanacos returned. The land remembered what it was.

The Chileans were not immediately grateful. Many locals saw it as a land grab. An American buying millions of acres and telling them to change their way of life. Some accused him of planning to split the country in two. Others claimed he was building a nuclear waste site. He kept buying land anyway.

The deal his wife finalized in his name after his death became the largest-ever private land donation to a country.

Over 1 million acres handed directly to Chile, triggering government protections on another 9 million. Five new national parks. Three expanded. A conservation corridor stretching 1,250 miles.

He died on December 8, 2015, in a kayaking accident on a Patagonian lake, surrounded by friends including Yvon Chouinard. He had called what he was doing “paying rent for his time on the planet.”

There is a certain kind of person who builds something great and then builds something greater by walking away from it.

Tompkins is the rarest version: he walked away from two fortunes, bought a wilderness, and gave it to strangers.

The land is still there. The sheep are gone.

If this kind of story is what you read on weekends, you might belong here.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[chris @candersoh]

@teslayoda Bought it!

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

It's a rescue operation.

Not a war.

A rescue operation for 90 million hostages, 47 years in the making.

[chris @candersoh]

@dannycheng2022 💯

[Pejjy @CuriousPejjy]

The full podcast: https://t.co/RSgivNJbbN

[chris @candersoh]

@TeslaBoomerMama You guys got this!!

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

36,500 Iranians murdered in 48 hours.

The largest massacre in modern history.

Not ONE Grammy winner said a single word.

[chris @candersoh]

@dannycheng2022 💯

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

As of today, @Tesla is officially the first company to offer robotaxi rides to the general public with no safety monitors and using only cameras (no LiDAR or radar).

And they said it couldn't be done 😎

[Dave Lee @heydave7]

Rest in peace, Scott.

[Gazelle غزاله شارمهد @GazelleSharmahd]

Calling on all activists and allies: KEEP POSTING EVERYTHING FROM IRAN.
Tag @realdonaldtrump.

President Trump — this is your moment.
Speak directly to the people of Iran.
From the Oval Office.
And speak to the transitional leadership of the revolution, @officialrezapahlavi.

⸻

WHAT WE KNOW RIGHT NOW
•A near-total internet blackout is in effect.
•Millions are in the streets, day and night.
•This is a nationwide uprising, unprecedented in scale.
•Electricity and phone lines are down, hospitals can’t call for backup — yet the people are lighting up the streets themselves.
•The regime is running out of forces and is importing proxy militias from Iraq and Lebanon — and still, the people do not retreat.

Iranians stand with courage, discipline, and unity.

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THE WORLD MUST ACT — NOW

The people vastly outnumber the regime.
If the world looks away, mass atrocities will follow.
International pressure is not interference — it is protection.

Reports continue of entire cities liberated, including large parts of Lorestan.

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THE TRUTH IS GETTING OUT

Citizen journalists are risking their lives because no international media is on the ground.
They are the eyes of the world.

For urgent updates: @iranintltv | @nufdiran | @pahlavicomms

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MESSAGE TO OUR FRONTLINE
To the people on the ground and the revolutionary networks inside Iran:

You are prepared.
You are organized.
You are making history.

The world is watching — in awe of your bravery and heroism.
Help is on the way.

Continue what you already know how to do:
reclaim street after street, square after square, cities, provinces, all the way to the final stage:
Entering every ministry of the Ayatollah occupation and reclaiming it for the people of Iran.

This is not chaos.
This is a liberation movement.

And nothing —NOTHING— can stop a nation of lions and lionesses from being FREE.