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Design philosophy
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What the corpus says
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Simone Giertz built her first hardware project, an iPhone case with retractable guitar strings, using capacitive touch and Bluetooth.
Giertz's 'Queen of Sh*tty Robots' persona emerged from her Reddit posts, embracing failure as a creative force in engineering.
Her brain tumor diagnosis post-TED Talk revealed a golf ball-sized tumor, which had been growing for 10-15 years.
Simone's product business, including the Everyday Calendar, is self-funded and aims to diversify income away from YouTube.
Simone critiques societal norms, noting the lack of female role models and the potential harm of powerful technology.
Voices on design philosophy
3 standout quotes from across the corpus.
Go read
2 books and papers cited across these episodes.
For the specialist
What experts find new
3 expert-level takeaways for a specialist reader.
At the frontier
Still unresolved
2 open questions flagged across these conversations.
The thinkers
Who takes this idea on, by how often they return to it.