Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still

In the thoughtful words of Imran Amed, we hear an echo of one of the greatest challenges and triumphs of the human spirit: “Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.” Here, Amed pays homage not merely to a man, but to an ideal — the rare harmony between intellect and imagination, logic and vision, precision and poetry. He speaks of balance, that eternal pursuit which has guided thinkers, artists, and builders since the dawn of civilization.

At its heart, Amed’s reflection celebrates the legacy of Steve Jobs, whose genius lay not in invention alone, but in his ability to fuse art with engineering — to make the mechanical elegant, and the digital human. Jobs was not content with creating machines that functioned; he sought to create experiences that moved. In him lived both the left-brain, the realm of logic, discipline, and order, and the right-brain, the realm of beauty, empathy, and intuition. His designs were not only efficient — they were alive, resonating with the same balance of form and function that guided the sculptors of ancient Greece and the architects of the Renaissance.

The meaning of this quote extends beyond admiration; it is a meditation on the unity of opposites. In every age, progress has come not from extremity, but from equilibrium. The philosopher Plato once taught that the soul of a city, like that of a man, must be harmonized — that reason must guide desire, but imagination must give reason purpose. So too did Jobs, in the modern world, build an empire upon this ancient principle. The creative technology business, as Amed calls it, is the perfect meeting of two rivers: the analytical current of innovation and the artistic current of inspiration. To balance these is to touch the essence of mastery.

The origin of this truth is not limited to Silicon Valley. In history, the same harmony has birthed every golden age. The scholars of Alexandria merged mathematics with philosophy; the Renaissance united science with art. Even Leonardo da Vinci, the universal man, was at once an engineer and a painter, his sketches both technical blueprints and spiritual meditations. What Jobs achieved in his era was a continuation of this lineage — to remind the modern world, often obsessed with speed and data, that the human soul cannot thrive on logic alone. The device in one’s hand may be forged by code, but it must speak the language of emotion.

When Amed calls Jobs “inspirational,” it is not only for his success, but for the discipline of duality that shaped it. To balance the brain’s hemispheres is to walk between two worlds — the measurable and the mysterious — and few manage it without falling into one or the other. Many in business pursue efficiency at the cost of imagination; many artists chase beauty without grounding it in structure. But Jobs proved that the greatest creation is born when the dreamer and the architect become one. His life was a testament that innovation without soul is sterile, and that creativity without structure is chaos.

In this, Amed’s admiration carries a lesson for all who seek to create or lead. Whether one builds technology, writes stories, or nurtures enterprises, the call is the same: cultivate both sides of the mind. Train the analytical as one would sharpen a blade, but feed the imaginative as one would water a garden. Do not reject structure, for it gives your art form; do not reject intuition, for it gives your work meaning. The master, said the ancients, is not the one who knows many arts, but the one who brings them into harmony.

Thus, let this reflection be a guide to future generations. As Steve Jobs found beauty in circuitry and emotion in design, so must we learn to balance our inner worlds. Let the left brain plan, but let the right brain dream. Let logic build the bridge, but let creativity decide where it leads. For the true builder, the true leader, is not divided between mind and heart — he is the union of both. And when that union is achieved, as in Jobs’s life and legacy, the result is not just innovation, but inspiration — not just progress, but the rebirth of the timeless harmony that has always moved the world forward.