Since I was a boy, I have been fascinated by stories like Foundation by Isacc Asimov. Where smart people use statistics to mathematically forecast the future. It is a key reason why I work in general insurance pricing. Why I am a Price Writer. The moment that changed my career trajectory forever and set me on this path was in the early 2000s. I was a junior group life underwriter. As I manually calculated the sum insured for a proposal form, using sets of numbers provided by the actuaries. I couldn't help but wonder: why x times y? Why not a, or b, or z? It was at that moment that I realized the future would belong to those who could create and understand complex mathematical algorithms, not to those who simply wrote numbers on forms.