I found in my Google Feed Gregory Zuckerman's Wall Street excerpt about Jim Simon, an interesting mathematician who did very well in finding order from financial chaos. The excerpt was from Zuckerman's new book titled The Man Who Solved The Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution. The hardcover will be available to purchase tomorrow. What I most found interesting was the age at which Simon began to seek a new career in finance. He was in his forties when he decided to reinvent himself.

The article about Simon and his path to creating one of the most successful investment funds was a very refreshing story to read, especially now that I'm trying to reinvent myself as I'm approaching my forties. I am hopeful that I can find my own success stories as I fast approach middle age.

There is data to support an upbeat outlook in life. Reading from Zuckerman's excerpt about Mr. Simon encouraged me to share meaningful data, albeit small in size.

If we are to have a sense of where the true average age is located for a person to produce their best work, and are given only these 12 data points of very remarkable people to make such an inference, then we can conclude that there is a 90% chance that the age range from 31.6687 to 39.1646 contains the true average, where the center of this interval is the mean 35.4167.

I find this to be good news now. My age this year still is within this confidence interval.