Simone Giertz

Because I just thought that sounded more funny than proud of you, daughter.

And also proud of you, son, just it immediately communicates that it's a parent.

It's not just like a colleague or something.

It's like proud of you.

And it charges you a quarter for it.

Yeah.

It was my friend Daniel and I who had a long running joke about it.

I think a lot of it, I mean, it's changed.

For the shitty 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.

I think 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 is just emotional and it's kind of,

a commentary on this fraught relationship that we sometimes have with our parents and their pride of us.

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've built for yourself.

And that was really sweet.