> Giertz: Make things that you want.
Few things make me so cynical as a successful entertainer doling out "do what you love" advice. It's what the audience wants to hear, but your life isn't going to work out like that of your celebrity friend.
The bar is much higher when you're making something you wouldn't personally use. It's certainly possible, and occasionally profitable, to do just that, but boy are things easier if you're solving a problem you happen to also have.
It much closer to Hewlett's view (of Hewlett-Packard fame) that "if the engineer at the next bench liked it and thought it would make his job easier, then it was worth doing." (quoting https://hpmuseum.org/hp35.htm )
> A lot of people make things that they think that other people want, but the main target audience, at least for myself, is me. I trust that if I find something interesting, there are probably other people who do too.
See also “dog fooding”
However, that advice doesn't please the audience, so few entertainers will give it.
I don't see how "build something you want" is different from basically how 99% of businesses start.
That being said, I've enjoyed Simone's wit and creativity for several years. I tuned in after one of my friends mentioned her, and she's been tenacious throughout her personal health journey and the vagaries of making ridiculous stuff on-camera. I feel like it's great that she's branching out to making stuff for other people to have.