Tim Holliday

Trader and Investor 📈 Insurance Salesman and Adjuster 👨🏻‍💻 Entrepreneur🚀 Founder of Data Driven Adjusting 🏦

[daedalus @BasedDaedalus]

sam killed it ngl

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

I turn 50 today. This is a message to my kids but I offer it to you in case any of it rings useful.

I was born in Sri Lanka in 1976 in a country that, at the time, was about to enter a decades long civil war. My father was able to get stationed at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada for four years in the early 80s - when some of the fighting was most severe - and which from our vantage point in Canada gave us some respite from an otherwise omnipresent conflict.

He came as a diplomat but then my father filed for refugee status after four years when his life was threatened by militants. We stayed in Canada as refugees. My dad never really landed on his feet and we grew up on welfare.

My mom stepped up. She did an incredible thing and put our family on her back and kept marching forward. Sometimes the steps were very small but she always tried to keep moving forward.

I worked at Burger King starting at 14, giving my paycheck to my mom and dad to support our family in the role that I was assigned - earn enough to pay for our bus passes because we couldn’t afford a car.

I was a loser growing up. Some friends, some good memories but mostly forgettable and lonely. I wasn’t very studious but did get my act together in my final year and got into a great university.

I immigrated to the US soon after graduating and found an opportunity. Things clicked and I have been traveling a path to find myself ever since. Only in America is this possible…

I worked hard, followed the rules, paid my taxes and stayed in California out of loyalty for the opportunities it has given me despite its dysfunction.

I found my wife here. Had my kids here. Found my tribe here.

There have been some very hard times as well - deaths, divorce, financial pain, mistakes of omission and mistakes of commission. You can’t dwell on these things - they are weights that will pull you down if you’re not careful. Learn from them. Respect them. BUT MOVE ON.

To think 50 years ago I could have ever gotten a chance to meet the people I’ve met and have had the experiences I’ve had would have been mind boggling to my parents. It’s mind boggling to me now.

We forget often and try to convince others it’s not true but America truly is the best country in the world. Everything and anything is possible here. I can testify. Be grateful to be here.

This is the only place that gives EVERYONE a chance to live a great adventure. The first 50 years have been that for me - an incredible adventure.

Notice there is nothing here about accomplishments or money. Because it doesn’t matter and it won’t matter.

You will be dust in less than 100 years from now and the decision to be remembered won’t be yours so stop sweating it. It’s not in your control.

So what is in your control?

Be kind. Have fun. Work on something meaningful to you. Find your tribe. Try to find perspective. Find an incredible partner. Have a bunch of kids. Live an adventure. Forgive your parents - they were doing the best they could even if that wasn’t what you deserved.

I will do what I can to make my next 50 years a wild ride.

You should too.

I love you and thank you. ❤️

🙏🏽🙏🏽

[Claude @claudeai]

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.

This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

[Kevin | Large Fam Dad @LargeFamDad]

My boss's boss is like 42, never married, no kids. Earns $275-300K per year. Goes on a minimum of two international vacations a year w/ his girlfriend. 10+ days, all out.

Eats the best food, stays in top notch accomodations. Excursions, tours, nicest beaches, etc.

Great guy, I'm happy for him.

But what I've realized is that without kids, you end up chasing a lifestyle that has to continually be topped in order for you to be satisfied and find happiness.

What he and others like him don't understand is that when you have children, seeing THEM experience life's most basic things and watching their eyes light up at all the "firsts", brings greater pleasure and joy than any vacation or travel experience ever could.

Seeing THEM try blueberries for the first time is greater than dining at the best 5 star restaurant in Europe.

Seeing THEM learn how to walk is greater than walking the Great Wall of China or strolling along the most picturesque beach.

Watching THEM giggle uncontrollably at "peek-a-boo" tops any A-list comedian act.

Seeing THEIR excitement when building a fort out of cardboard boxes and making a door big enough for daddy is superior to staying at 5-star resorts.

Flying kites with THEM far outweighs excursions like parasailing or helicopter rides.

Seeing THEM perform a recital on stage for the first time is more rewarding than watching a Broadway show or top notch symphony orchestra.

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When you have children, all of a sudden you realize that life's greatest joys are not in the pursuit of things or pleasure or travel, but rather in the LOVE and bond you share with your very own image bearers.

Seeing the beauty and magnificence and wonder of life all over again for the first time through THEIR eyes and expressions gives you something the world simply cannot offer, nor even come close.

[Cormac 🇵🇸🇮🇪 @yungpapist]

Imagine if Obama said praise be to allah on Easter lmao

[Sally @MustangSally_12]

@FmrRepMTG @DawnDoesNot Isn’t it ironic and sad that the leader of India - a primarily Hindu nation - posts a more loving, Christian, Easter message than our POTUS does?

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

Some people are mean and bitter because they had a rough childhood. Some people are kind and caring for the same reason.

[Isaac @isaac_saas]

A crying baby on a plane is an even better litmus test than the shopping cart.

If it genuinely makes you angry, you have no empathy. No compassion. No soul. No ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes. You are the epitome of what's wrong with the modern world.

[Samrah @_Chemist1]

People with high standards are skilled at detachment and cut people off at the slightest sign of disrespect.they don’t tolerate disrespect, not even as a joke.

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

Consider that the dumbest people you know are repeatedly being told "You're absolutely right!" by LLMs.

[Micheal D @micheal_ws18]

The scary thing about fasting is that you realize your body really does operate better with no food in it.

[Maryam @hell_line0]

Behavioral scientists found that people who survived difficult childhoods don’t just bounce back , they develop a permanent hypervigilance that makes them extraordinarily capable in crisis and unable to relax even when everything is finally okay

[KAYLA PARRILLA @kaylaparrilla]

The black sheep of the family always turns out to be the goat

[KABUGO @Kabugo_]

The older I get, the more I notice something… intelligent people are polite to everyone. But they trust almost no one.

[Natism @Natism]

You can tell someone’s smart by how well they simplify things, not complicate them.

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but start living. The days are flying by, and all you do is work, pay bills, and stress. Enjoy what you can… walks, sunsets, music, laughter. Joy doesn't have to be expensive. You deserve it.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I often wonder how many extraordinary people wasted their entire lives waiting to feel ready. Gathering more information. Creating the perfect plan. Simulating progress. Convincing themselves they’d start tomorrow. Readiness is a myth. Action creates clarity. Go do the thing.

[praise john @praisejohnn]

If we didn’t have ears Humans wouldn’t know Sound existed Meaning there’s a possibility there’s something going on Around us at all times ,
We just don’t have the body part to detect it .

[Aditi @aditiitwt]

In order to be born, you needed:

2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 second great-grandparents
32 third great-grandparents
64 fourth great-grandparents
128 fifth great-grandparents
256 sixth great-grandparents
512 seventh great-grandparents
1,024 eighth great-grandparents
2,048 ninth great-grandparents

For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total of 4.094 ancestors over the last 400 years

Pause for a second and really think about this…

How many hardships did they survive?
How many silent battles did they fight?
How many tears did they wipe away?
How many moments of joy did they celebrate?
How many love stories began so that yours could one day exist?
How many dreams for a better future were whispered into the dark?
All of it…
just so you could be here, alive, in this moment

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

Look, you can be the biggest Trump supporter out there, that's fine, but if you can't admit this Bondi hearing & her handling of the Epstein Files has been a complete disaster, you're just as brainwashed & indoctrinated as the radical left that you attacked for the last 8 years.