Simone Giertz

Yeah, and just try to do things, take it from the queen of shitty robots, but try to do things with integrity.

Former queen of shitty robots.

Do things with integrity.

Like anything you do on the internet is kind of, I think of things as tattoos on my internet and on my internet self.

And I'm really happy that I said no to some things early in my career that I know that I would have regretted now.

And yeah.

Just think of it in the long term.

Going viral is overwhelming and so stressful and so fun, but so intense.

And I'm really happy that I managed to build that into a more long-term career than just have it be something that passed.

Yeah.

And also...

really deliberately defining what success means to you.

Because there are so many reasons or so many definitions that other people will give you.

And especially when you're working on the internet, there are just numbers upon numbers that are like, you're doing well, you're not doing well.

And something I'm really happy that I did was early on, I really tried to think of like, what does success look like for me?

And I realized that it's not having...

the world's biggest YouTube channel.

It's being proud of the projects that I put out and having full say in how I spend my time.

Like that is the most important thing to me.

And if I had a huge YouTube channel and I was making so much money, but I kind of had this machine run me rather than the other way around, like to me, it's so important to be able to wake up in the morning and be like, I don't want to do this anymore.