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Quotables
Quotes Hang onto your hat. Hang onto your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day. It’s May that ruins me and September too, those two sentinels of summer: promise and nostalgia. He trusted neither of them as…
A day in the life of a hard charging CEO
I’ve been in charge of MoreTimeThanSense since 2022. We’ve been chugging along at a modest loss, about $100 a year. Sure we haven’t turned the corner to profitability but in that same time span SpaceX has lost over $13 billion.…
Are you there Claude? It’s me, Jim.
150th entry of More Time Than Sense! Thought I’d let an AI chatbot evaluate the site and see what it says. I chose Anthropic’s Claude, the least evil AI chatbot. Well, at this exact moment of time anyway. First I…
Rogue One Liners
Your assignment, should you choose to accept it
April is National Poetry Month. What if you read a poem a day for the month? What’s the worst that could happen? You can register with the Poetry Foundation’s Poem-of-the-Day and they’ll send you a link to a different poem…
I’ll see you in the funny papers
The Sunday comics were so sacrosanct in the twentieth century that when there was a newspaper strike in New York in 1945, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia (yes, that La Guardia) took to reading the comics aloud on the radio. At…
47, from the driver’s side window
“The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.” — Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 Ordinarily it’s best to let current events fade into the rear-view mirror…
More Twitter Wittercisms
WJWLT (the last twenty years or so)
What Jim Was Listening To, that is. Every year I create a playlist of songs that piqued my interest for that year. It helps remind me of what I was listening to and also serves as a reminder not to…