I wrote this post back in January 2010 on my earlier blog. Steve Jobs was very much alive at this time and pretty much at the top of his game at Apple. As I move my blog in July 2012 to wordpress (with mobileme web hosting getting decommissioned) I think I need to retain the original post even though things have obviously changed quite a bit since then and a lot more people have seen this video since. The original blog entry follows …

An old but very popular video on YouTube; you may have seen it already. It is a very beautiful and eloquent reminder to all of us about whats important and whats not in life specially for us technologists; I just had to include this here.

Watching this video has reinforced my conviction that truly great engineering is motivated by a deep and sincere appreciation of the sanctity and purpose of life and society.