poor timing

“I’m not trying to be a Luddite and realize AI is coming whether the industry as a whole wants it or not, but poor taste and poor timing,” reads the top comment.

“What’s going to be in its place? It was poor timing. … We were making a difference, I thought, in how we control the electricity for the people.”

Given this formidable array of bad luck, poor timing, and the highly focused political strategy of his Republican enemies, Adams actually did surprisingly well when all the votes were counted.

Indeed, Adams’s string of bad luck or poor timing, call it what you will, persisted to the end.

There is plenty of research showing that investments perform better than investors themselves, meaning that individuals seldom get the most from the securities they buy; the most recent “Mind the Gap” study from Morningstar Inc. — designed to measure how well investors do compared to the mutual funds and ETFs they hold — found that poor timing on purchases and sales left the average investor lagging by roughly 1.7 percentage points per year.