On the red sneaker effect: I'm a sys admin by trade. Every new job that I've started I've made a concerted effort to hunt down the other tech people around the

On the red sneaker effect: I'm a sys admin by trade. Every new job that I've started I've made a concerted effort to hunt down the other tech people around the company who are the most obviously "non-conformist". I have a near 100% success rate of quickly finding out who the most knowledgeable staff members are.