Ben Carlson

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  • Good Material Liked

    Good Material by Dolly Alderton A simple story about a struggling stand-up comedian going through a difficult break-up. A funny, sweet book. I enjoyed it.

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  • High Fidelity Liked

    However, the book gave the main character far more depth than the movie.

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  • The Handmaid’s Tale Liked

    I liked the book a lot more than the show but watching the show helped me appreciate the book more.

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  • 11/22/63 Loved

    11/22/63 by Stephen King Somehow this was my first Stephen King novel.

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  • The Four Things That Matter Most Liked

    Someone recommended this book after my brother passed away. I didn’t want to read a bunch of books about grief, but this one struck a chord. I wish I had read it before he died.

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  • Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live Liked

    Come for the stories about one of the msot storied franshises in entertainment history. Stay for the business and leadership lessons from Lorne Michaels.

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  • Best Movie Year Ever Loved

    Raftery makes a compelling case that 1999 was the best movie year ever.

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  • The Breaks of the Game Loved

    I’ve heard numerous sportswriters call Halberstam’s chronicle of the Portland Trailblazers’ 1979-80 season the best sports books ever written.

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  • The Inner Game of Tennis Loved

    The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey I love books like this with a simple message using sports as an analogy for other aspects of life.

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  • A Night to Remember Liked

    A Night to Remember by Walter Lord This one was perfect for an audiobook.

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  • 1929 Loved

    1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin The reverberations from the Great Depression are still being felt 100 years later so I loved learning more about the characters involved in that fateful time.

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  • Breakneck Loved

    Breakneck by Dan Wang Wong does an excellent job at objectively looking at the pros and cons of the Chinese and American societies. The engineering state versus lawyerly society as a way to explain each nation is brilliant.

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• Everything, newest firstFeed Posts and recommendations from the cards above, in one stream.

  • Will Young People Ever Buy a House? 4 Sept
  • Good question about having a mid-life crisis w/your investments It's harder to sit through stock market losses w/a bigger portfolio The next stock market crash… 4 Sept
  • The unemployment rate has fallen from 4.5% in November to 4.1% in August We've averaged 80k new jobs a month in 2026 AI is not (yet) the job killer everyone in… 4 Sept
  • How to Invest When Your Portfolio Gets Bigger 3 Sept
  • Some questions: Would inflation be even worse if we weren’t in a housing recession? Are private markets the perfect place to hide fraud? Are colleges screwed?… 3 Sept
  • When Thompson died they shot his ashes out of a cannon (per his request) It cost Johnny Depp $5 million 3 Sept Quoting@essa_museHunter S. Thompson refused to come to the studio. The only way Conan could get him on the show was to meet him on a farm in upstate New Yor…

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  • Animal Spirits: The Next Michael Burry The AI story that's never going away Everyone wants to call the AI crash The S&P 493 bull case Why hasn't AI destroyed j… 2 Sept
  • Animal Spirits: The Next Michael Burry 2 Sept
  • 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT INVESTING IN STOCKS 1. Stocks mostly go up but sometimes they go down. Roughly two-thirds of all years have a double-digit pea… 1 Sept
  • 14 Questions I’m Thinking About 1 Sept
  • We are very close to 7% mortgage rates yet again We've now had mortgage rates >6% since late-2022 And still no housing market crash I do wonder if housing is t… 1 Sept
  • Talk Your Book: Cash Was Easy…Now What? 31 Aug
  • Jerry Seinfeld’s Evergreen Career Advice 31 Aug
  • I kinda hated S1 of Tires It just didn’t work and wasn’t very good Gave S2 a try and thought it was very funny Just finished S3 and I absolutely loved it Funny… 30 Aug
  • My Most Contrarian Opinion Right Now 28 Aug
  • Josh Brolin once told Marc Maron after Sicario wrapped shooting that he looked at Benicio Del Toro and said, "Well, that didn't work" William Goldman's "nobody… 28 Aug
  • 10 Things You Need to Know About Investing in Stocks 27 Aug
  • Remember when software stocks were pronounced dead? [insert Undertaker meme] IGV is now just 7% off all-time highs and up almost 50% from the lows Almost a com… 27 Aug
  • In 1870 the cost of food, rent and clothing took 91 cents of every dollar earned The average American owned 1.5 shirts No one really had insurance, no Social S… 26 Aug
  • Animal Spirits: Are Free Markets Dead? 26 Aug
  • How Will This Cycle End? 25 Aug
  • Breakneck 21 Dec 2025 Lovedaffiliate link
  • 1929 21 Dec 2025 Lovedaffiliate link
  • A Night to Remember 21 Dec 2025 Likedaffiliate link
  • The Inner Game of Tennis 21 Dec 2025 Lovedaffiliate link
  • The Breaks of the Game 21 Dec 2025 Lovedaffiliate link
  • Best Movie Year Ever 21 Dec 2025 Lovedaffiliate link
  • Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live 21 Dec 2025 Likedaffiliate link
  • The Four Things That Matter Most 21 Dec 2025 Likedaffiliate link
  • 11/22/63 21 Dec 2025 Lovedaffiliate link
  • The Handmaid’s Tale 21 Dec 2025 Likedaffiliate link
  • High Fidelity 21 Dec 2025 Likedaffiliate link
  • Good Material 21 Dec 2025 Likedaffiliate link