Simone Giertz

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 um but yeah i mean i'm trying to get my product business off the ground we launched in may and

And it's just, yeah, it's just a 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?

Yeah, I can disappoint people at scale and also them actually having 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.

I love the product development aspect of it.

I love trying to design stuff for manufacturing and figure it out and anticipate how people are going to use your products.

And 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-boggling.

Or bad ones.

You can do it however.