I didn't know how to necessarily make good robots and I was scared of failing to make good robots, so I thought I might as well make bad robots to kind of alleviate the pressure of that.
I build a robot version of Jenna Marbles' dog, Kermit. It turned out a little bit worse than I had anticipated.
On my bad days, sitting down and meditating was the last thing I wanted to do.
When I started building things, obviously I was pretty bad at it. You cant be good at it from the start, and I decided to just embrace that, roll with it, and turn it into something funny.
I think I've kind of carved out a sweet spot for myself by combining science and comedy.
I spent every day of third grade wearing a glittery purple cowboy hat.
Having the brain tumor, coming out of surgery and going through all of that, you're like, I am never going to feel the same and I have this new perspective on life. So much gratitude, life just feels like this enormous treasure. Then that kind of just falls away and you're back being grumpy about having an early morning meeting.
Career wise, I'm looking into different opportunities to do a TV show, but in some way that's not a goal in itself. To me, the goal is creating content and doing fun stuff that I'm proud to show. I don't want to do a TV show for the sake of doing it.
I think it's also important to show that failure is a part of the process. It can sometimes be the end goal. People are very obsessed with building useful things and I think often that also stops people from getting started.
We're kind of a guinea pig generation.
Haircuts are never good. You always end up being unhappy.
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.
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.
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.
I set out to make a sandwich using a robot arm. I put a knife at the end of it and tried to make it spread peanut butter over bread. It didn't work so great.
I really dislike soup, especially pumpkin soup.
Reddit is, it's like a tiger. It's great if it's your friend, but it can also eat you alive.
To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.
It's all men on my channel. All my comment sections are engineers at Google.
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.
