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  1. “I mean, for one of it is like, yeah, the manufacturing, the tooling that they use in manufacturing and to do things in a cost-effective way is really different. Like I can make a one-off, and it's going to take me 17 hours, but obviously you can't spend 17 hours per calendar when you're doing something in factory. Think it's that like quality control is such a beast. You cannot trust anybody telling you that things are going to be okay. Like you have to have such trust issues. And it's also terrifying. I mean, as somebody who's doing everything independently, I haven't raced any capital for it. Like it's all self-invested and we're doing it all in-house. It's just, you know, yeah, I could buy.”

    2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Yeah, I can disappoint people at scale and also them actually haven't paid me money to deliver on something, which is a terrible transaction. But it's, I'm just stoked to realize that I love the job still. Like I love the product development aspect of it. I love trying to design stuff for manufacturing and figure it out and like anticipate how people are going to use your product. And like the everyday calendar, I mean, we've sold thousands of them now. They're all over the world. And it's like. People actually finding something useful that I made and implementing them into their lives. It's just Mind bog”

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  3. “As somebody who builds things, manufacturing something is such an unrelated process. Like making one of something and making 10,000 of something, like they're not even distant cousins. Like it's completely different beasts to tackle. And yeah, so that was one of it. Everything takes so much longer than you think it's going to. I did a Kickstarter campaign that we launched in 2018 After my surgery, and yeah, it's just, you know, you think you're so generous with the timelines, we still ended up being a year late, but we shipped. We're good. But yeah, I mean, I'm trying to get my product business off the ground. We launched in May. And it's just, yeah, it's just the pain. As somebody who's terrified of disappointing people, I'm like, why have I chosen some of the jobs where it's the easiest to disappoint people?”

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  4. “Yeah, so basically I designed this calendar, like I wanted to start meditating every day. It's really hard to meditate every day and to like kind of build that habit. And what I would do is I would make these grids in my notebooks where I could like check a box for every day. Like I just wanted like a little ding. I did it and like this thing of accountability. But then I was like, this is, I don't want to have a notebook that I do this in. Like, I want an art piece that I can hang on my wall, like accountability art. And I made this thing called the everyday calendar, which has an entire year on it. So it's 365 days. And if you tap any of the days you light it up and we turn it into a Kickstarter campaign and it's now a product that I'm selling through my product business store. The Yatch”

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  5. “It's wild. And my brain, so after surgery, because, yeah, I had a brain tumor the size of a golf ball kind of behind my right eye. And after brain surgery, you kind of just have this big hole in your head, like this void. Usually your brain stays that way. Like it retains the shape even after the brain tumor is gone. But for some reason, my brain was feeling really ambitious and it has completely flopped back. And I have almost like a normal looking brain now where doctors are like, oh, we would almost not be able to tell that you had one. So yeah, that just blew my mind like when did it was that why I had all those headaches for surgery It's just my brain being”

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  6. “I mean, I also had that thought where I was like, I fucking floss every day. How do I have a brain doomer? I've been good. Like, why does this happen to me? But more so, it was like my body was so resilient and ready for it. And I was really, really proud of it.”

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  7. “Being sick sucks It's awful, and I really am really motivated to. Postpone that for as much as I can. And also, I was so tremendously grateful when I got ill that I felt like I had so much to take from. Like I had so many energy reservoirs. I'd spent my life taking pretty decent care of my body and like exercising and eating well and like not wrecking my body in any way. And I felt like this was the first time where that was so critical. And I felt like my body was ready for it, you know?”

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  8. “I think it definitely when you're young and healthy, it's really hard to Know what it feels like to be ill. And I remember. Know you like go to yoga class and you'd be like, Oh my god, this is too slow. Like, I want it to be, I have so much more energy, like, I need to. And when I was recovering from my brain surgery, there was this yoga studio nearby my house and they had yoga for seniors and i was so stoked because i was like oh this is the yoga class i'll be able to take And I think that was really eye-opening of just like there's no, you kind of imagine that it's just like, oh, just push yourself harder. But no, that's not it with age or sickness or it's just you got to be so gentle with yourself and you have to Cater to people where they're at.”

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  9. “Yeah, I mean, you kind of think of terrible things as something that happens to other people and death and illness. So I think it kind of fast tracked that for me. It mostly changed my relationship to life Changed, it's made me so much more gentle with myself. Like, Going through illness. Forces you to redefine what it means to be good. And before being good had been pushing myself really hard. It had been working and I don't know, just being really hard with myself and disciplined. And when you're healing from something, being good is listening to your body, it's resting. It's like really being in tune with what your health, where your health is at. And I think that is something that's kind of stuck with me since then. I'm like so much more gentle and delicate with myself.”

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  10. “Multiple ways or multiple things that might be right or wrong was so terrifying. Like I wanted there to just be like, no, this is the only option. This is what we need to do. And if I started questioning that, then I don't know if I would have been able to go through with it. So yeah, it was a strange. I just really wanted to trust the doctors that I worked with. And I was very scared to question them in any way.”

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  11. “This is like work injury from being a YouTuber. It's all like freeze if there's audio that comes in Yeah, sponsored by Tapwater. I was surprised by how little I was willing to Think critically about what my doctor has told me to do. I very early on the neurologists that I worked with, he was the one who was on call at the ER the day where I came in and he was the one who ended up doing my surgery and he kind of became like my rock in this and I just 100% trusted him and he turned out to be an amazing doctor and like did a great job and was just like so i got so so lucky but i remember my mom being like oh but we should like talk about second opinions and like we should try to do more research and i was like so unwilling to do that because opening up to the idea that there are”

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  12. “Corus feels weird. That was honestly one of the scariest parts of it because that was the first time where I felt like it genuinely affected my way of processing reality. And yeah, I was so relieved when I found out that that was what was causing it because I felt like I was going crazy. But even after surgery, like I woke up and I felt like myself, like everything was, I got no brain injury. So obviously this is like my experience from somebody who came out of it pretty unscathed, who didn't get any brain injuries and didn't have to do any of that recovery. It's more just the recovery from the physical act of somebody cutting your skull open and taking a large chunk out.”

    2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “I spent months feeling like I was high out of my mind and I couldn't process reality in a way that I normally would like everything just felt off. Like I felt, yeah, I felt like I was high on drugs. And I kept on asking my doctors what was going on. And they're like, no, I don't know. Don't think it's anything related. And I was on this Alzheimer's medicine that they put you on to prevent dementia from radiation treatment. Like kind of as a preventative. And I found all these subreddits of people using that Alzheimer's medicine to get high. And people be like, oh my God, bro. 20 milligrams yesterday, and I was high out of my mind. And I'm like, 30 milligrams a day.”

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  14. “I think Surgery was both harder and easier than radiation treatment because it was harder because it was. So much more intense, and it's such a dramatic thing, like going to the hospital that morning and being like, I don't know, and you feel so awful when you wake up. But then the recovery from it was pretty linear. Like almost every week I would get a little bit better. The thing about radiation is that it was not linear at all. And it kind of drained me in this weird, like it was so hard to predict. And also they put me on these, um,”

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  15. “Being hit like right as I found out when we were in an Uber poor Uber driver from where I had my MRI scan to the ER where they sent me and I was really both really grateful that I've gotten so much more out of life than I ever thought I would. Like I've had a hell of a life and even if we would have ended really early I would have done so much more than I ever thought but I was also really, really sad that I hadn't had kids yet like that was my big grief of like fuck I haven't had had time to have kids yet But no, it's terrifying. I mean the prospect of somebody cutting up your head like that's terrifying but it honestly Wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.”

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  16. “Of course, of course I was scared. I mean, it's terrifying. It's like And also, when it's in your brain, like. You know, I always like take any other part of me, but don't take my brain No, it's this unfathomable thing that happens, and you're like, I'm healthy. How could this possibly be a brain tumor? Like my eye is swollen. Like there's nothing there. I haven't had any seizures. I haven't had any cognitive issues. I haven't had any headaches even. Like, how is that even possible? So you go through a lot of different stages of just trying to understand what it is. And I think I remember.”

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  17. “What's kind of dedicated to just getting better and getting back to where I am now. And I remember like I was so stoked about 2020 because I was like, this is the first year that I'm not held back by my health. And I'm like finally going to be able to do everything unfeathered. And then the pandemic happens and you're kind of just like, okay, just in the back seat of what's happening and things that are out of my control again”

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  18. “Or this like thing that, yeah, just gives them another type of scan. And the nurse looked at me in this way and was like, how long have you had symptoms for? And that's when I knew that they'd found something. And then they like shove you back into the machine for another 20 minutes. And my ex was just seeing them zooming in and out. There and they sent me to the ER, and I found out that I had a brain tumor the size of a golf ball that probably been grown since I was a teenager. So it'd been growing over like 10, 15 years. And yeah, had surgery to remove it. And then it kept on growing. The parts that they couldn't remove and I went through radiation treatment. So that was like. Two years that”

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  19. “I mean, the reason that I found out was partly because of the TED Talk because my mom came into town to be there for it. And my right eyelid was swollen and it had kind of been swelling over a while. And I even got in comments about it on my YouTube channel. And I thought it was allergies because I was like, oh, it's just pollen allergies. It's just affecting my one eye because maybe I sleep mostly on that side. I don't know. And my mom came into, um, States and then Vancouver for my TED Talk. And she was like, Simone, you have to like have a scan or see what's up. We have to go to the doctor. And she really pushed me to do it because I was like fucking fine. And I had an MRI scan. On like 5 p.m. on a Friday night. My boyfriend at the time was there and”

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  20. “I mean, it's fine. It's like it's a decision that I made really early on where I was like, what am I? I think often people misinterpret what I'm doing as being for children, which I think is part because like my projects were always really colorful and fun. I think it also has some sprinkles of sexism of being like, oh, it's a woman doing something. She must be doing it for the children. And I'm like, Fuck the children. I'm doing it for myself. So, I think I was just really early on decided, oh no, I'm not going to try to cater to that, which still, I mean, I get a lot of messages from parents being like, can you please stop cussing in your videos? And I'm also like, I get it, but also that is not what's going to mess up your kids. Really try to peep. Thoughtful and a decent enough role model, but I'll also acknowledge that humans fuck.”

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  21. “I mean, I say that I'm crude and wholesome because I can be very crude, but I also try really, really hard to be a good person. And to all say shit and fucking all that stuff, which I don't even think is crude. Yeah, but I really, really try to wield the power that I have in a thoughtful way. So no, I wouldn't call me edgy because I'm not, I don't think it's edgy. It's all like...”

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  22. “Oh, and as a bonus, this gift right here is the perfect response if anyone ever sends you dick pics you don't want, which brought down the house. It does it every time. And they caught it out without asking me because they were like, oh, but we wanted people to be able to show it in classrooms. And I was like, I have abandoned the hope of being shown in classrooms for years ago.”

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  23. “Best joke, and they didn't even ask me about it. So there's this whole lead up where I built a chopping machine, so it's a machine that chops vegetables and has two giant knives and it goes dunk dunk dunk dunk and it's kind of terrifying. And I show. Video of it, and then it ends on this gif of it chopping up a banana, and I'm kind of scrunching up my face being like, ugh, ugh. And the whole reason I show that project is because I'm leading it up to the punchline of.”

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  24. “Yeah, that one's fine. I can't. There was, I mean, my TED talk was so, yeah, for one, once again, they cut out my best joke.”

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  25. “I don't even know. I never used it beyond the TED talk really. Yeah, but basically it's the shoulder rig and it has this like almost like Saturn ring looking platform that goes around I can't even remember what the problem proposition was that I was trying to solve.”

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  26. “Tambor mechanism. So, like Tambor, like you'll have on old record player. Like it's like thin slats of wood with fabric on the back and you can kind of get them to go around curves. So basically one of the table tops or table surfaces is tambor. And then there's a little crank and you can kind of roll it off to the side and it reveals another tabletop under it that you can then lift up because it's on cams. So you can switch between the two. I think that one was both really difficult to pull off and it's also one of few projects that I use in my everyday life. Like I use it almost every day.”

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  27. “Hm. Like working on jigsaw puzzles, but I don't like how much table space they take up because I like just have one big table where I can do it. And that's also my dining table. So I made this mechanical table where you can switch between two tabletops. And that was an incredibly painful project. And I'm really happy with the outcome and like so proud that I managed to pull it off.”

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  28. “No, but it's definitely the pride of getting to pull something off or like managing to pull something off even when it was really difficult. Very satisfying.”

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  29. “I mean, I have so much college FOMO, though. Like, I think it's, I chose. Different set of experiences. And when I applied to MIT, I was, I think I was 24 because I was like, oh, maybe I should become an electrical engineer. Really liked electronics. But then I remember seeing that the average age was 18, and I was like, oh fuck, no, I can't hang out or like be in a room filled with 18 year olds who are smarter than me. So I think I definitely missed Train on having that experience, but at the same time, I did so many other things and I chose other experiences and I wouldn't trade them. But I still like, I mean, I'll go to on a campus and I'll be like, oh. Think it's also because I have a dreamy idea of what it is because I never get to do it in practice fully.”

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  30. “Two separate questions, or there's two questions that you could split out of that. One is like, what do you actually want to do? That for me, for the last 10 years is building stuff. But then there's a second part to that question, which is what context do you want to do that? Do you want to build stuff at a startup or at a big corporation? Do you want to build stuff for an art gallery or for the movies or for YouTube? Think that's often like people only learn how to answer the first question, but then it's like the context means as much because I was building stuff at Punch Through Design and I wasn't getting that like deep fulfillment. Like I felt like I wasn't fully using myself and like hitting all of my gears because I just wasn't that motivated about building stuff for other people. And I changed the context and everything changed.”

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  31. “Decent at a fair amount of things, but definitely not a specialist in any ways. And this, it was such a specialist type of area that I felt like the other parts of my brain kind of just dwindled and died. So I think most of all, if people are thinking about going to college, and especially if you're here in the States and it's so fucking expensive. There's two things I want to do. One is actually go to a workplace where people are doing the job that you think you want to do if you want to become a doctor, like be at a hospital and like try to see how doctors work and if you actually like it because I feel like people have a lot of ideas of what it's going to be like and it just doesn't match with reality. And then I think when people figure out what they want to do, there's kind of”

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  32. “Of all, you shouldn't listen to me. I, you know, I realized that I was there for the wrong reasons. I had this deep, I got completely starting to get grades in school, which in Sweden at that time, we started getting it at eighth grade. So when I was 14, it just kind of hijacked my brain because I realized that I could put a number on how smart I was. And I got obsessed with it. wanted to study mechanical engineering because I was like, I like machines. But then physics was kind of the hardest thing you could do when I had this like deep need to prove to myself that I was smart. So I started studying physics, realized I wasn't that smart, and realized, or I mean, just mostly that I like, I love math, but I don't love math 10. A day And also, I think I am a generalist through and through.”

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  33. “I'm just going to take a quick restroom break because Lex is on his own train now and I'm just going to leave you to talk.”

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  34. “I bet somebody has, but you know, I always thought I was going to go into academia. Like, I was such an ambitious student. I loved school. I actually applied to MIT, but then I pulled out because I was like, no, I don't want to do it. But now I realize it's really good that I didn't because I'm too much of a spaz.”

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  35. “You don't need a lot of force. You just need it to not the air to not be able to escape anywhere. But then also we had there was different qualities of bubble wrap where there was a lot of transference between different bubbles. So instead of the bubble popping, it would just seep the air into a neighboring bubble and that like membrane would kind of, so you know, I just like getting to spend weeks on weeks of just studying bubble”

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  36. “Yeah, A lot of self soothing, and like I got to spend Think I spent a week trying to figure out the best material to pop bubble wrap with because if you have two, if you kind of put them through or through, if you put a sheet of bubble wrap through two rigid tubes, The air kind of just escapes from one side of the bubble into the other. So, what I realized was that if you have a squishy material, like kind of a yoga mat material in between it, it prevents that and pops it a lot more reliably. Like increasing the pop reliability was a huge effort as well.”

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  37. “As well. I had to get this rotary set up for my CNC, and yeah, it was a lot of work. But that was really fun. And it's just like, this is probably my favorite privilege of my job is that I can go down any rabbit hole, I think, find interesting.”

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  38. “Yeah, so basically, I mean, one of the big issues. That I had, so I worked with as of a year and a half back, I hired an engineer Stew. So we were collaborating on it. But a big issue that we had was feeding in the bubble wrap sheet and like making sure that it feeds in straight and doesn't get skewed because you need to make Like the popping feet, which is where you program this barrel to pop different bubbles, need to be so perfectly aligned on the bubble of the bubble wrap for it to pop in the right location.”

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  39. “So it all came from me realizing that if you pop bubble wrap and you pop it right in front of the opening of a pamphlet or like one of the pipes, you can have it play different tones So that's what it does. So I built this music instrument off of that.”

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  40. “Yeah, I think kind of even the more fun whimsical department rather than shitty robots, I built recently this music box, so like a small music box that kind of has a barrel with little spikes and it plays a song. But I did a large version of that that pops a sheet of bubble wrap and then like plays tones into a pan flute. So you can actually program it to play different songs. One kicked my butt in so many creative ways, and it was such a pain. I think that is probably the like. Weird, funny project that's taken me the longest and like the biggest engineering effort.”

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  41. “Sometimes my dad visited like last week, and he was like, I just want to say I'm so proud of you and for the life you built for yourself. And that was really sweet. Put that on the back of my autobiography too.”

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  42. “The funniest is no, I think it's more like the proud parent machine. It's not violent. It doesn't, there's no, nothing, it's just emotional and it's kind of. Commentary on this fraught relationship that we sometimes have with our parents and their pride of us.”

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  43. “The city robot, yeah. I mean, it has a lot of overlap. So it's identifying everyday problems. And in the shitty robot era, I would kind of take an everyday problem like, oh, I have a hard time getting up in the morning and I would solve it in the most ridiculous, spectacular way I could think of. So if we're waking up in the morning, it was having an alarm clock that slaps me in the face with a rubber hand. And what I'm doing now is still identifying everyday problems, but I'm actually trying to like product design my way out of it.”

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  44. “It helps with the, yeah. And yeah, it's as proud of you, son, because I just thought that sounded more funny than proud of you daughter. And also proud of you son just immediately communicates that it's a parent. It's not just like a colleague or something. It's like proud of you. It charges you a quarter for it.”

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  45. “That one, that one I do like, I like that one a lot. That's probably my favorite shitty robot. So it's a machine. It was my friend Daniel Beauchamp, and I had this long running joke about a proud parent machine that you could give a quarter and it passed you on the shoulder and says proud of you. So, yeah, I still have that hanging on my wall in my workshop. So that one I'm really happy with. I just think it's a really Funny concept and also I executed the build well, so that was.”

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  46. “Yeah. I mean, it is. It's like, I feel like any technology company that figures out a way to get you to actually genuinely love your Roomba or like love it in the way that you would love a pet. A lot”

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  47. “No, they're all terrible. I mean, I have objects that I built that I love. None of the robots, I think, but that's also because it was a different era where I wasn't really putting a lot of care into the projects I built.”

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  48. “I don't love my phone. I touch it all the time, and it's there, and it's like constantly, it's a constant presence, but there's nothing in me that feels like, oh, I love this object. Like, I kind of despise it.”

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  49. “But I think it's definitely like, yeah, the human technology interaction is really interesting because I feel like I don't love any of the machines that I have in my life.”

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  50. “But what's the point of meeting? 20 people, if you're like, oh, but if we just had our AI versions of ourselves interact, they'd be like, oh, your method of conflict is not going to match.”

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