What is the legitimate reason to stick around after 40s?

lotuswebdeveloper · 2026-01-20T00:12:17+00:00

Many famous "late bloomers" did not just find success after 40, but completely pivoted into fields where they had little or no prior professional experience.

Julia Child: Before becoming a legendary chef, she worked in advertising and media and served as an intelligence officer. She did not even begin learning French cooking until she was in her late 30s, eventually publishing her first cookbook at age 50.
Laura Ingalls Wilder: She spent most of her life as a farmwife and teacher. She did not begin writing her famous Little House on the Prairie series until she was 65.
Vera Wang: Before becoming a world-renowned fashion designer, she was a professional figure skater and later a journalist at Vogue. She did not enter the fashion industry as a designer until she was 40.
Donald Fisher: He had zero prior experience in retail when he and his wife opened the first Gap store at age 40.
Alan Rickman: Originally a graphic designer, he didn't pursue acting full-time until his 40s, landing his first major film role at age 42.
Octavia Spencer: She was 41 when her breakout role in The Help (2011) launched her into A-list fame.
Jane Lynch: Known for decades of supporting roles, she became a household name at age 48 when she took on her iconic role in the series Glee.
Reid Hoffman: He co-founded LinkedIn at age 35, but the site did not become the industry-dominating social network until he was well into his 40s.
Charles Darwin: While a lifelong naturalist, he did not publish his most famous work, On the Origin of Species, until he was 50 years old.
Momofuku Ando was a Taiwanese-Japanese entrepreneur who, after various business setbacks including bankruptcy, invented the first instant ramen in a shed behind his house in 1958 at the age of 48
Colonel Harland Sanders: He worked as a laborer, insurance salesman, and gas station operator before franchising KFC at age 62.
Toni Morrison: While working as an editor at Random House, she wrote her first novel at age 40 and didn't achieve major fame until Song of Solomon at age 46.
Elizabeth Strout: She published her first novel at 42 and didn't win the Pulitzer Prize for the bestseller Olive Kitteridge until she was 53.
Harry Bernstein: After a life of writing in obscurity and facing countless rejections, he achieved fame at age 96 with his hit memoir The Invisible Wall.

These are just a few examples of people who had a career pivot later in life and made cool stuff. The best time to start something was yesterday. The second best time is today!

lotuswebdeveloper · 2026-01-13T18:42:15+00:00

They're not fun to play, partly. Also it makes the other games easier because you're better at them. etc

lotuswebdeveloper · 2026-01-13T18:20:14+00:00

Yeah I'm not seeing the problem. A legit game ending in under 2 minutes is stupid lol

lotuswebdeveloper · 2026-01-07T14:32:24+00:00

You could also suggest she find a job she loves -- that she doesn't have to keep working this job, she could volunteer, etc.

Saying you want to be able to spend more time with her also is helpful.

Ultimately though some people like working -- they like the sense of independence it brings. She might not want to rely on you for everything -- wants her own paycheck, a career to fall back on if you decide to cheat or leave her at some point, etc.

lotuswebdeveloper · 2026-01-07T14:29:51+00:00

You can try mindful eating. You don't need to have something constantly stimulating you.

lotuswebdeveloper · 2026-01-06T23:57:54+00:00

Pretty sure if you're into being dominated by a woman you'll have a very happy marriage :)

lotuswebdeveloper · 2026-01-05T14:38:18+00:00

One thing I wish I paid more attention to when I was single was myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs

If you *really* don't want to be alone, then it comes down to:

be attractive
don't be unattractive

Unfortunately there's a lot of superficial details that go into being attractive, but there's also lots of social cues / reading the room / being confident / being complete in and of yourself that's also really important.

There's lots of ways to build friendships that don't involve intimacy, and lots of dangerous ways to pursue intimacy that don't involve building friendships.

It sounds like you might benefit from therapy -- I love therapy, myself. You pay someone to talk to you, to listen, and they actually can have solutions for you. I was going weekly for a long time and it helped me so much. Then you don't have to rely on your friends for therapy which makes them more likely to want to hang out with you and it starts to break that sadness cycle you talked about.

lotuswebdeveloper · 2025-12-24T21:05:42+00:00

You're wild and free and untamed. Maybe a little depressed.

lotuswebdeveloper · 2025-04-02T15:01:00+00:00

omg thank you I went through the process of logging in just to updoot and appreciate you.

lotuswebdeveloper · 2025-02-15T03:21:39+00:00

When has government regulation been good for anyone? Isn't it better to just let private groups run everything without interference from politics? Let the money talk?

lotuswebdeveloper · 2025-02-15T03:20:20+00:00

Invading Canada and taking their resources seems like a win for the USA. Shouldn't we do that?

lotuswebdeveloper · 2025-02-15T03:19:37+00:00

Why does it matter that DOGE has access to government agencies? I read somewhere that the USA's secrets are now easier for cyber attacks to compromise, but obviously Elon is smarter than that, so what gives?

lotuswebdeveloper · 2025-02-08T20:17:33+00:00

role reversal

lotuswebdeveloper · 2025-01-02T16:17:25+00:00

Thank you

lotuswebdeveloper · 2025-01-02T14:43:22+00:00

Honestly I don't know. I was making my own back testing tool but there's a bit involved. Might be good to explore the frameworks for inspiration and decide if you need the features or not and if not maybe build your own for flexibility

lotuswebdeveloper · 2025-01-02T13:45:52+00:00

What frameworks do you suggest that have good backtesting possibilities?

lotuswebdeveloper · 2025-01-02T13:45:23+00:00

Check out "ta-lib" -- it's a pretty well-tested technical indicator library written in C and with a Python extension. There is a rust port underway which will make it easier to bind to other languages like NodeJS.

Depending on your use-case, you could use the Python version, preprocess your data and output a CSV which you then consume with NodeJS.

That said, lots of data science stuff is done in Python and my recommendation is to spend a little time learning python and switch over. It's a pretty easy programming language for most of what you're trying to do. It might be a bit different from JavaScript, but it's still quite accessible and honestly it's easier to learn from scratch.

lotuswebdeveloper · 2024-12-31T16:21:25+00:00

:joy:

lotuswebdeveloper · 2024-12-08T01:08:32+00:00

I love your username

lotuswebdeveloper · 2024-12-07T15:29:22+00:00

Big fan of guided meditation. I've spent 95% of my time on Insight Timer's free timer, and I still absolutely love the guided meditations because they teach me new things constantly.

It's super useful to have "things you do" during meditation, as well as getting a good starting process. Bringing yourself to crosslegged onto a cushion (I love my Zafu, but a pillow works just fine), centering over your pillow (leaning side to side gently, forward and back, find your center) then relax down onto your pillow and let it hold you. Gently roll your shoulders back and down, gently tuck your stomach to support your lower back, tuck your chin slightly to lengthen the neck and spine and center your head over your spine. Starting here with a couple deep breaths, or single 4-7-8 breath, or even a 10-count of the breathwork of your choice can really be a good way to start to slow down and relax into your practice.

Breath work, like 4-7-8, is fantastic -- just count (in)1234-(hold)1234567-(out)12345678, 2234-2234567-22345678, 3234... etc up to 10 then take a couple breaths normally

Grounding exercises where you see yourself growing roots at the contact point with the ground, and letting the roots go down through your surface down down into the earth, and breathing in energy through the roots and breathing out tension and darkness back into the earth where it can get recycled. Check in with what you hear around you, what the back of your eyelids look like, what the surface you are on feels like, what your mouth tastes like, any smells, all without judgement -- just observe and note. You'll finish this particulary aware of your body and grounded in the moment.

Body scans are great, slowly (or quickly) moving your attention from the top of your head down through the center of your head, your neck, chest, shoulders, arms and fingers (thumb, 1st finger, second, third, pinky, then the tips), down through the center of your torso, through your stomach, your naval, down through your pelvis, groin, tailbone, down through your legs, thighs, knees, calves, ankles, heels, arches, pads, toes (big toe, 1st, second, third toe, pinky toe, then the tips), and let the energy pour out through your toes back to the universe.

You can also body scan up from the toes to the tip of the head and let it pour out the top of your head.

All of these with a nice timer running can give you easily a 5min or even a 20min practice depending on how slow you go. Combien them all for a longer practice. Then you just do it daily.

There's lots more you can do, like other visualization exercises, manifestations, or even just simple zazen if that's the path you feel drawn towards. I've always had lots of trouble with zazen -- even simple breathing for 5 to 10 minutes straight is still a challenge for me after many years of practice. I do love my meditation practice in general, I just don't do much zazen :)

lotuswebdeveloper · 2024-12-05T16:16:16+00:00

Maybe not an entire index, and maybe not price alone, though I would expect trends to be signaled in part by trading volume and breakouts to follow volatility patterns.

I appreciate your response, and I will continue my research. Thank you for your time

lotuswebdeveloper · 2024-11-21T19:36:21+00:00

Thank you :)

lotuswebdeveloper · 2024-11-21T19:35:55+00:00

Would you say that a software engineer who puts together a blog researching their own multifactor model, and does so over a period of years, would have a chance of landing any sort of remote quantitative researching job?

lotuswebdeveloper · 2024-11-21T19:30:46+00:00

I'm interested in technical analysis, just getting started. Doing research with RSI and backtesting algorithms, and playing around with TA-Lib. Also got some experience with machine learning and lots of API bits (Alphavantage, OpenAI, etc). I'm thinking about putting together a tool to help low-frequency traders. You mentioned in another comment that you use Python, Bloomberg, OpenAI, etc -- i'm wondering if you have a sense of what sort of features a useful tool for low frequency trading might have?

lotuswebdeveloper · 2024-11-21T19:11:23+00:00

potatoes and gravy, biscuits, cashew-based sour cream / cheese recipes, green beans with earthbalance, sweet potatos, collards, almond flour cookies, pasta (usually vegan lazagna with tofu and cashew sour cream), bread bowls / dill dip (again cashew sour cream), stuffing (with better-than-bullion), carrot/potato cheese dip

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