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One session, organized by the writer Danny O’Brien, called for “alpha geek” participants to share “the little scripts they run, the habits they’ve adopted, the hacks they perform to get them through the day.”

Wallach certainly doesn’t resemble a conventionally sleek or smug financial giant; nor does he come off like a tech-world alpha geek with newly deep pockets and a vocabulary out of Silicon Valley.

Photograph: Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images It’s Anderson himself, always dressed in a cord suit worthy of 90s alpha geek Jarvis Cocker, who could be their leader.

As the number of magicians and Star Wars figures multiply on the show floor, it will be interesting to see how Strata keeps its alpha geek mojo.

The play includes a fairly standard version of the alpha geek, complete with Renaissance Faire cloak, two-liter jug of Mountain Dew and imaginary girlfriend.