Simone Giertz

“Like if you could work, if you're in a field where you could work 24 hours a day and still not get done, that means you could just as well work eight hours a day and just get a little bit less done, but have a good life on the side.”

“If something comes easy to you, and you think it's fun then that's probably what you're best at, and, but at the same time, we have this, like, I've noticed for myself, at least, and that I've heard from a lot of other people, do you have this, like, programmi…”

“It's definitely been at the detriment of, like, the growth of my YouTube channel and everything like that”

“It was this thing that was happening to me, and it was totally out of my control, but I could kind of feel like I could control how I could tell the story, and how I could, like, tell people what was happening, and I, there was just something that was very emp…”

“Now I'm not as much doing like problem solving shitty robots. It's more like the sentiment I'm more going for now is like any idea or project or thing I want to build where I'm like, huh, I wonder how that would like work out or what that would look like.”

“From the way that we've structured the company, it's been less of a headache and the, like the content social media side is more stressful.”

“I used it for meditation. So that was why I built it initially because I was starting to like feel kind of burnout and I had, yeah, just some bad projects that I was in and I was like, okay, I need to find ways to support myself. And I committed to meditating …”

“Building shitty robots was this like way of approaching a very intimidating field, which is robotics that I was really interested in, but I haven't gone to school for. And I was like, oh, if I only try to build shitty things and nobody can like make a joke on …”

“I've just been trying to find many legs to, or all these different legs to stand on business wise. And a part of that is like, I give a lot of talks and like that, which is, has been great. And that's kind of standalone. I mean, YouTube helps support that. Lik…”

“It's really brittle to kind of put all your eggs into one platform basket. Because like, who knows what's going to happen with YouTube in two years, it might not be a thing or like something changes.”

“Like that my YouTube channel is more like a journal of personal interest than a specific topic, because then you can like, how are you going to run out of things then? Like anything that you're interested in, you can make content about.”

“Part of that was never committing to an uploading schedule, which a lot of YouTubers have, where it's like, I make videos every week, or every two weeks, or every day, and I was like, no, I don't want to put myself in that position, because, like, who knows, l…”

“The first project I had that kind of went viral was the toothbrush helmet, which is a skateboard helmet, has a robot arm, and the forehead kind of like a unicorn horn. And a toothbrush at the end of it, and it brushes my teeth. Yeah. And that was the first, li…”

“It's kind of hard to have, or you're trying to find a balance of having a job that does have a lot of ego in it, but at the same time, like, not letting it make you an asshole.”