I've stumbled over gaming's simplest hurdles, been humiliated by the lowliest of enemies and will often go for an easy mode if one's available, and yet I've run through Bloodborne twice without ever really breaking much of a sweat.

Frolic, my lords; let all the standards walk, / Ply it till every man hath ta’en his load.

Connectors know people—lots of people. Mavens know about things. They know, or find out first, what is going on. Connectors, says Gladwell, need mavens to tell them what to buzz about.

B+ trees have very high fanout, which reduces the number of I/O operations required to find an element in the tree.