A biography for Simone Giertzhasn’t been written yet.
“I use humor as a way to digest anything.”
“I don't believe in prayer, I'm a pretty hardcore agnostic.”
“The way I approach my insecurities is by making sure I'm the first person laughing at myself.”
“The wake up machine was actually pretty painful after some time.”
“To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.”
“I really dislike soup, especially pumpkin soup.”
“In some ways, it's good for company culture to build things that are intended to fail because it creates an environment where it's OK to fail. A lot of people are very scared of that, especially in the workplace.”
“Haircuts are never good. You always end up being unhappy.”
“Getting slapped in the face with a plastic arm to wake up is not as painful as it might look - probably more humiliating than painful really.”
“My learning process has always been very idea-oriented. I never sat down with a book being like, 'OK, now I'm going to learn about transistors.' Instead I had an idea that I really liked and learned as I was trying to figure out how to build it.”
“Burn out is such a real thing, especially when you are enjoying your job.”
“When I build for YouTube, there isn't necessarily an end goal. I have an idea of how I want a thing to work, but if it doesn't work that way, I can always adapt the story. The story is the main driver, not the machine.”
“I wanted to automate any part of my life that I could. And the over-the-top solutions are more fun than the useful ones.”
“There's an incredible amount of people that you can compare yourself with and be like, why am I not doing as well as that person? It's really hard.”
“I made a toothbrush helmet, which was a skateboard helmet with a robot arm holding a toothbrush. The idea was that it would brush your teeth for you.”
“I think people just like seeing failure.”
“I just like having creative solutions to tricky situations.”
“My top video is probably the wake up machine. And that one was the first one that started going really viral. It's an alarm clock that slaps you in the face with a rubber arm.”
“I'm still sometimes convinced that I'm just making all of this up and I'm actually somewhere drooling in a straight jacket. This success is such a bizarre thing.”
“If I'm not around, it's not because I don't want to be, it's because I can't.”