Ben Larsen

Roughly 30–60% of U.S. homes are over-assessed. Only 5% of homeowners appeal — and 70% of those who do win. Thinking about building something that makes it simple to understand why your taxes changed and when to appeal. Drop a ❤️ if you would be interested in this.

@practicalgolf Preach

Low to mid single-digit handicaps can often be the most tortured golfers. They can taste the mountaintop sometimes and shoot in the low to mid 70s. But then they’ll have rounds where they can struggle to break 90. Stuck in between two worlds.

@KBSaidSo Present and accounted for.

This meeting of the Pokey Reese Appreciation Society is officially convened.

@Jon_Finkel Was just having this convo with some dudes a free days ago. The feeling of picking up a pack and opening it for the hopes of landing something amazing…I chase that high every day!

Yo! Dads and 90s kids, here's a fact: We had it so good with baseball cards and we didn't know it.... How could we? When we were kids they held promise and our future fortunes and they cost .50/pack. You could hit up any grocery store, convenience store, pharmacy, 7-11 and... If you had a dollar in your pocket you were baseball card rich. Cards. Gum. Assets. You kids today have no idea. There were no box breaks or buy-ins or $49.99 or $99 packs or $1,000 packs or sets or streams to see other cards or dozens of different sets with holograms and refractors and subtle variations or uniform slivers cut inside... HELL NO. We had cardboard. And three ring binders. And plastic sleeves... We had a 4-pound Beckett guide that was our bible. We coveted like 7 rookie cards: Rickey Henderson Don Mattingly Kirby Puckett Roger Clemens Doc Gooden Mark McGwire Ozzie Smith And then, of course, we overloaded on Ken Griffey Jr... But for about 6 years we treated our card collection like it was our personal hedge fund. We'd trade cards in the school cafeteria like stock brokers... 3 Frank Violas and 2 Ryne Sandbergs for a Jose Canseco Rookie 1 Jack McDowell RC plus 1 Ruben Sierra RC for a Benito Santiago rookie We'd try to get lucky by loading up on Ellis Burks or Jim Abbott rookies. We took shots, cornering the market on random players with upside like Todd Benzinger and Walt Weiss or personal favorites like Oil Can Boyd... And on and on we'd go, thinking that once we had the rookie cards from the entire '94 all-star team or all of the rookie cards from the '92 Sox or Yankees or A's that we could then put our cards in a vault for thirty years... Then we'd open that vault up in 2023 when we were 40 and we'd... BE... RICH!!! We know now that it wasn't meant to be. But damn. What a time to be a kid. What a time to be alive. It was awesome. If you're nodding your head with Topps & Fleer-filled nostalgia, share this and follow me @Jon_Finkel. And be sure to sign up for my Books & Biceps newsletter for more columns like this and ORDER Generation Griffey in the next post, it's THE BOOK for 90s dudes.

@Jacobsklug @lovable Build

After generating $250K (last 2 months) I built a playbook for @lovable apps—and I’m giving it away. In just two months, we cracked the code to building apps with AI. I’ve distilled everything we learned into this single document. Comment "Build" and drop a follow. I’ll DM it to you. P.S. This will likely blow up, so give me some time to reply.

@shanebacon I've found that the new one from Srixon is best. I believe they call it "Hitmorefairways."

I need to know if anyone has done a study on which color golf ball is best during fall … yellow feels like it has to be better in the leaves, right?

@shanebacon Less about retirement but my gaining interest in Champions Tour action has my back hurting and watching a lot more weather reports…

What athlete retirement had made you feel the oldest? I believe Federer and Nadal both being done with competitive tennis is the one that sticks with me. Watching them was a part of my youth and my adulthood and one of the two in a Slam final was inevitable.

If you were on the fence about subscribing to the Normal Sport newsletter from @KylePorterCBS, consider subject lines like "Minjee Lee Looks Like Ed Hochuli" and go ahead and pound that subscribe button. #sicko #golf #menofacertainage #gains

@dose17 @KylePorterCBS Klosterman is must-listen/read/consume

@KylePorterCBS Not golf but Simmons/Klosterman pods still slap

Whose name do you get most excited to see when they pop up as a podcast guest? Can be a player, media member, writer, business titan, coach, actor, musician, anything. I have two that I'll drop in the comments a bit later.

@KylePorterCBS Real talk, you on Long Game with @davegerhardt made me equal parts excited and perplexed that my two disparate sicko modes joined for an episode.

@PeteATurner What a treat of a tweet! Hope it was something worthy!

@benlarsenwrites Found some fun stuff from your time at the Republican. I suppose it's always great to hear that even 20 year old writing is still a treat to someone. Consider me treated.

@MarkCalc Tobacco Road would be a fun major venue

I’m ready for some abuse. Just gonna spit it out!! Pinehurst is such a cool area with great courses. #2 ain’t one of them. Most overrated course in the world!! Lemme have it!! But it’s true

@danique_sipkes @BrettFromDJ @MosesDeAraujo Interested in learning your pricing model.

Someone's going to eventually launch a "Designjoy for Canva" and make literal millions in no time. 170 million users and not a single known service catering to them (that I can find). Might be the biggest opportunity in the design space right now. You're welcome.

@jamierkennedy That might work

What are the saddest three words in golf?

@KylePorterCBS Normal sport

the p.s. is incredible

TJ McConnell looks like he should be presenting quarterly financials. #celtics

@jspector Inspired

In one word... How does my content make you feel?

@LouStagner FLOP

Putt or chip? 😎

@jayclouse @NickB2005 You’re an inspiration Jay!

@jayclouse @NickB2005 So the net is your business profit separate from your salary income taken from the business? Nice!

Today is my creator anniversary! I left my $80K/yr tech salary and started my business on April 21, 2017. Revenue by year: 2017: $29,468 2018: $72,713 2019: $54,547 2020: $103,007 2021: $149,953 2022: $336,809 2023: $565,424 2024 (proj): $845,082 Keep going.