we have found great success honing our pattern recognition to spot them and in coaching novices to gain greater mastery of them. In no particular order, they are “edge control,” “crawl-walk-run,” “hyperfluency,” “emotional depth & resilience,” “a sustaining motivation,” “the alpha-gamma tensive brilliance,” “egoless ambition,” and, Danielle’s favorite, “Friday-nightDyson-sphere.”

Michael Gibson, Paper belt on fire: how renegade investors sparked a revolt against the university, New York, 2022, p. 94