Swarm Consciousness

I am not a complete believer of telepathy nor am I a non-believer. I think we have a collective consciousness as humans. This swarm consciousness is most concentrated where people mostly knowledge workers tend to think a lot. This consciousness also learns and evolves because of the evolution of the individual consciousness. I am not trying to say that this is a sort of super collection of memes. If it was, then there would be some form of communication required to pass it. I am trying to put a word around - "multiple people from different places inventing the same thing independently" - sorta thing. There must be a channel of communication know to our subconscious minds to communicate with other subconscious minds (may be memes at subconscious level). I guess if we can dwell deeper into ourselves, we might see the subconscious in action and then we might be able to access this channel.

On a different note, I saw three different companies take off with the name sounding "indigo" independently.

Laid off

I was laid off from my company today. A company where I spent the most of my precious years, now let me go. Why I call these years precious is just for the reason that they were almost risk free. Would I do something else, given another chance, may not be, but I sure will be careful before I take the step.

The layoff is not all that bad. This was something that I guess had to happen. Guy Kawasaki has an article about layoffs on his blog and I wish the guys in the top management read about it.

This has been one heck of a ride. I have to thank Sridhar for such an unforgettable experience. Having been a part of this family for six years as a co-founder and Principal Software Engineer, I am feeling real sad today having to leave. I wouldnt trade this journey for the world.

The funny side of this is that I went through the day not knowing that it was my last day. I was told that it was, almost at 10 P.M my time, which is the morning in California - problems with the global office!

Now I guess I should do what Joe Kraus says - Pot plants.