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Simone Giertz
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“I was thinking about this Okay, in dating. What if you because you can drain? Like a chat bot to kind of mimic the way that you talk to people and interact with people. Yeah, but then I'm like, okay, but what if we could all make AI versions of ourselves and have them date like thousands, thousands of other AI people and have that as a way to turn out potential candidates? Like I feel like that's going to be what's the.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, it's kind of endearing in because I think it kind of, I'm going to mess up this word, anthropomorphizes them. I think it's, I mean, I never feel as deeply connected to my roomba as when it's like, I'm on a cliff, like paper.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. It's trickier than anyone who hasn't tried it, thinks. Even making it, I think what I realized is that making things really shitty or like failing in a spectacular way is also its own sort of skill. Because the shittiest robot is the one that doesn't turn on. But that isn't much to watch. So it was always like wanting for it to fail in these kind of spectacular ways. No, there's a lot of stuff to be said about engineering in it.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A mess, and also I use like cheerios for the cereals, and my it's shot in my old bedroom in San Francisco and the floors were sticky for weeks afterwards.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's a robot that pours milk and cereal and feeds me with a spoon. I was mostly challenging because it was so everything had to be in the right location and there were so many takes before I got everything right. And by right, I mean it makes an absolute mess. Yeah, that one was challenging.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, the wish.com version. No, it's just like add a few parts water if you have me. But like on YouTube is just so condensed because you have jump cuts and you know I'll scrape jokes and make sure that everything lands and there's music and stuff and then like in real life you don't have any of that but it's still me.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I think it's a combination of it. I mean, I think of it as acting sometimes, but I only play the role of myself. But of course, it's like when you're shooting something for the seventh time. Like you have to be able to muster that enthusiasm. But no, it's not a kind of Of everyday life me as a watered down version of the YouTube version. It's like,”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Cringy. Yeah. I mean, it's thankfully not on the internet, so nobody can find it. But it's very much me being in what I called host mode, which is where I'm like, okay, so what we're going to learn today is that we're going to look at this. This is something called a servo motor. And it's like the intonation and everything is really different. And I'm actually, I mean, thinking back of that, I'm so happy that they didn't get back to me because it's such a different thing to kind of start your career in your living room, running back and forth to the camera and like filming something and then looking at it. And like I got to really find my own voice in different way. And then like a year later, they offered me a show, but then I was so often running. I was like, no, I don't want to do this.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I mean, it doesn't have to be perfect. It's a gif. It's the internet. Things are shitty all the time. I think the biggest struggle of that was that I had this intention for it to be this show. And then them not giving. Yeah, giving back. And I was like, well, if they don't want it. Maybe YouTube will have me.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, the arm came down, so it's like, I just programmed it to come down to my mouth and then poorly brush my front teeth.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so I built it off of this robot arm called Me Arm. So it's just this acrylic robot arm. And I think it has three servamotors. It's all controlled by an Arduino, all the electronics. Was a kit, so I assembled it.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was the first gift that I uploaded, so actually, I wanted to do a kids show about electronics in Sweden because I was like, I love electronics. I think it's fucking dope. I could do a kids show about it. So I filmed this terrible, terrible pilot episode in my bedroom in San Francisco. And that's when I built the toothbrush helmet and I emailed it to them. I mean, just cold email. Like I had no in or anything. But I was like, hey, I want to do this. And they didn't get back to me. Nobody surprised. And I was like, well, I have this. Thing I built, I might as well post it on the internet. So that's why I made the little GIF and I posted it on slash R/DRobots. And I think it got like 50,000 views. And I was like, wow. And from there, I just kept on building things. And I think within six months, it was my full-time job.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, this is when I was at Punch Through Design in San Francisco. I was kind of building a lot of hardware projects for them, but I also felt, and they were so supportive of me, but I also, it's such a different way representing a brand versus representing yourself. So there were some projects that I just like ruled out because I was like, this feels too weird for this brand. And I started building them on the side. One of them was a toothbrush helmet. Yeah, so it's like a skateboard helmet with a robot arm on the forehead, kind of like a unicorn horn. And it brushes your teeth for you.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and I loved it. I thought it was really fun. And I was like, I want to contribute with content here. I don't, I mean I don't know. I was a fear of rejection. I think I was voted top user of 2015. So, yeah.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it's very like, yeah, if somebody comes out of context, and that's been really interesting also like building this product business and trying to do the marketing around that. And I'm like, if somebody comes in and they have no idea about what this product is, will they get it explained to them in this ad? And I don't know, but it's definitely a worthwhile exercise to do. So I started making these projects. I got translated into GIFs. And I posted them on slash R slash shitty robots on Reddit.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But honestly, it was like it's a really good mental exercise to vet if your project is easy enough to be explained by like a seven second looping video without audio. Because like nobody's going to care that it also has Bluetooth. It's really like, is it self-explanatory enough to be explained through a GIF?”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Fear of rejection from me that people would reject me. So I, yeah, I started making these little gifts. Like the early projects that I did were very gift forward. It was always like, I only did it because it could be translated into a gift.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I was like, I'm fucking 32 years old. What do I have to write about? Like, I went through puberty. I lost my virginity. And here we are.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't want to shit on autobiographies. Even just by saying that I'm shitting on autobiographies. Just. Me being interested enough in somebody to want to read 600 pages about them talking about themselves.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I just realized that I played a lot more stupid than I was. I think it's also, oh gosh, I can't believe I'm the one bringing this up. But like being a woman in a male-dominated field. And you're like trying, I was just trying to make myself the least amount threatening or like really unthreatening because people are threatened by you in different ways. And it's like you have such a thin line that you can walk where you're like, okay, I need to be just attractive enough for people to not be offended by my appearance, but just unattractive enough for people to not sexualize me. I have to be just smart and witty enough for people to be like, oh my God, that's really cool. Also shoot myself down enough for other people not to be able to do it or be like, oh yeah, watch this woman try to thinking that she knows how to build electronics. You know, so it's like.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But what I've realized now is there's also a defense mechanism being self-deprecating is like always beating people to the punch. It kind of was a survival tactic on the internet of being like never daring to set out as an expert. And I still do that. Like I'm terrified to tell people how to do something, even if I know, because it kind of opens you up for being shot down. So I think I have, I definitely have a conflicted relationship with it. And now, especially as I'm getting older, I am more skilled than I was before. I mean, I'm a CEO of three businesses. And I'm like, I don't need to keep on talking myself down all the time. So yeah, I think it's definitely something that has served me really, really well and that is still like a That I have in my work life and in my relationships, but I'm also trying to only.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. I think it's both, it's a double-edged sword. I started out on the internet, kind of, I kind of got the moniker, the queen of shouldew robots, because I posted a lot of stuff on slash R slash shitty robots on Reddit and people started calling me the queen of slash R slash shitty robots and then the slash R kind of dropped. So what I'm trying to say is I did not come up with that with myself, but I did happily adopt it. So I definitely came from a place of like Building things that didn't work and kind of Yeah, everything going wrong every time, like happily failing. And I think that was amazing. It was a really powerful tool for me to not get my perfectionism in the way because if I set out to do something that's great, then I'm never going to start. And I was like, no, I just need something that looks funny.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, that is me, the representation of the average human. But I mean, I remember that. So I studied physics for a year in college and then I dropped out. And I had this rule for myself that whenever I did not understand anything, I would ask a question. So I was always raising my hand in class. And it's this room entirely like auditorium filled with incredibly intelligent people who are mortified of seeming stupid. And I think that was really like, and I remember people at the end of the year coming up to me and being like, thank you so much for all the questions you asked because whenever there was something that I was too scared to ask, you always Think it is a bit of a skill, and I think that is kind of how I channel my imposter syndrome I'm just like, no, let's lay it all out there.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Both yes and no. I think I always try to flip my flaws into selling points. And for that, so getting that job Was like, oh, you're a team of engineers. Everybody working here is an engineer. Your customers are not all engineers. You need somebody who can be your filter and tell you when something's going to be too hard for your customers to understand. So it was more me being like, oh no, it might seem that me not having skills is a bad thing. Actually, it's a great thing.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And they can get you to eat faster or slower, take bigger bites or smaller bites. And there are all these ways or like the social, I mean, the reason that chopsticks work is because they do the food chopping in the kitchen. Rather than on the plate. And also, you have a bowl that you bring to your mouth with, whereas a plate you keep on the, like there are just all these ways and these objects affect our behavior, opening and closing doors. And I think it's such an interesting take on culture through human behavior through these objects that we use every day and we never question them really.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it affects our behaviors. That was why I think it's so interesting with forks that forks actually affect our eating behaviors.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would happily live in that rabbit hole forever. Like if I can dig out a little niche for myself there because I think it's like No, they go so deep.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Least a local app, yeah. And that's what I think is so like the world around us, and this is why I love building things, is because it just opens up this idea that the world around us is so malleable. And you can make objects work for you better. Like I spent, I made this fruit bowl. I had a fruit bowl and I was always annoyed that I had either too little or too much fruit for it. So I made a fruit bowl where I can change the diameter of it. It has a mechanism so you can like make it bigger or smaller. And that's just like the thing of being like, Bulls Why are they the way that they are? I can make them different. And I think I want to make an episode about doorknobs. I think it's so interesting why are they the way they are? Why are they placed the way where they are?”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Why are we ruled by an iron fork? How did that happen? And everyday object that you have and that you just take for granted, somebody just made it up.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh my god. So, okay, so this is, I so I have two like big, so basically I started on YouTube and I'm been doing that for like the last seven or eight years and I've kind of been thinking of like, okay, what's next for me? Because I want to keep on trying out new things. And I'm kind of going into two different avenues. One is the product business that I started Code Hingers TBD. And then I am working on a pilot episode of a show where each episode is about an everyday object and why they look the way that they do. So we've written a pilot episode about forks.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Condition, and I am so excited about it, and I cannot, I don't, yeah, but this is I get so pumped about it because I see it's just this issue or like this problem that I want to solve and I kind of can't put it to rest until I have.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How did it begin? It began with a corner in my home where I couldn't fit a coat rack. The thing is, I shouldn't have brought this up because I'm going to release it as a product probably in a year.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know how your brain works, but it's like if I have a problem. I can't stop thinking about it. Like, it's so fun to think about it. Like, I spent, I spent. Two and a half years designing a coat hanger. And I just can't stop thinking about it. Like, I get so into it because I think it's so much fun.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it's definitely an off-road build where it's like if you're building a Lego. I think it had a natural pressure to it because it was a school project. So it did have deadlines built into it and stuff like that. So that definitely helped. But I think also it was just so incredibly motivating when I realized that I might be able to pull it off. Like that was, I felt like a bloodhound, you know. You're just like, oh my God, I can actually make this happen. And I think if I hadn't seen that at the horizon. It would have been harder to stick through.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But then it kind of becomes this whole thing in a guitar. Then it just becomes a really shitty guitar. Which is a really shitty guitar, but it's also”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, but I've been thinking about it because I'm like, oh man, it would be really fun to go back to that project with what I know now. But the problem with it is that when you're producing the tension in your string just with your arm, like you can't make it taut enough to actually play. Like it kind of becomes playing these like saggy strings. Is you're not really getting that experience, and I think that's why I. Yeah, I haven't really pursued”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I still think it's such a cool concept to have this mobile, I'm not even a guitar player. I don't know. I was, I mean, I got the idea because I was kind of strumming on my charge chord of my phone.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sound like my grandma. She's like, I have an Italian grandma, and I always try to get her. We're like trying to get her to tell her recipes and every recipe starts with. It's very simple. And then there's like 45 minutes of her explaining it.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I honestly cannot believe that I pulled it off because I think I was ignorance was definitely bliss because that was like, yeah, the first hardware. Project I'd ever built the first iPhone app I'd ever programmed. And like now, if somebody was like, hey, I want this to be my first project, I would probably be like, oh, that's a lot.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Or touched, and then that sent a signal over Bluetooth to my phone. I'd built a little iPhone app that interpreted those Bluetooth signals and then checked what type of cord I was holding on the screen and then played the coherence now.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And what you do in a real guitar is you have the little, it's like measuring the vibration or the change. Yeah, you're measuring how the guitar is vibrating and you can't really do that because I can't have a receiving sensor because the guitar strings are going to move in relationship to that because you don't have like a rigid neck. And this is like, yeah, this was my first electronics project. I was a little fludging baby maker. But what I decided was to use capacitive touch because that is independent on if the guitar strings are moving in relationship to something or in relation to something. So basically there was just this little Bluetooth Arduino board that this company punched through design made. So that was how I found them. And I measured the capacitive touch. So like whenever the guitar string was measured, there was this little microcontroller that was like, oh my God, a guitar string got measured.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So their actual strings that you pull out. So there's a mechanism that's almost like a seatbelt mechanism. And yeah, you pull them out from the bottom of your phone and you can attach them to your belt. I mean, it's terrible There's a few different ways to decide if somebody's touching a guitar string.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So basically, I imagine that you could pull out guitar strings from the bottom of your iPhone and you could pluck it to your belt and then you could hold a cord on the screen. And I built that together with my friend Jonathan. And I was like, oh, this is dope. I thought it was so much fun. And I considered like, oh, should I go to school for this? But then I thought maybe I can get a job and I could get paid to learn about electronics. Just based off of that one project, I got the job at Punch Through Design, where actually was one year internship.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, the thing is, I went to advertising school and I just have vocational studies a year and I realized there that I didn't care much for advertising, but I thought it was really fun to build stuff and program. So like I just completely focus on that. And there I built my first hardware project or like electronics project, which was this iPhone case would retractable guitar strings.”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm from Sweden, and you have to choose either sewing or woodworking. And I chose woodworking in middle school. And I remember the sense of pride when I got to bring something home and that thing of like, oh my God, I get to show my parents this. And I think that is kind of the feeling that I've built my job around. It's like the sense of pride and wanting to show people something that I made. And back then it was like a little wooden spoon, you know. And now it's a slightly larger wooden”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wow, this was so smooth. I'm so proud of it. Like, I feel like. Lot of people I watch them build stuff, and it's just like watching water pour down, you know, it's just like so easy. And for me, it's just like. Trying to shove a toy car into a wall”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The limitations are fun, but it's like when you have an idea of something and you want to make it a certain level, and then you just have to compromise with the materials and the tools and the skills you have. So I can't remember first time where I felt like”
2023-04-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #372 – Simone Giertz: Queen of Sh*tty Robots, Innovative Engineering, and Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I think in the beginning of building stuff, you run into the limitations of your skills so much. So I feel like honestly building gets less and less. Or, like, I love it more and more the more I know”
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