Simone Giertz, YouTube channel
Simone Giertz (pronounced "yetch") is a young Swedish woman who describes herself as someone who "invents useless machines." She was also the self-proclaimed "queen of shitty robots," a title she renounced a couple years ago.
Over the years she has made an alarm clock that slaps you awake, a toothbrush helmet, and a lipstick applier - none of which actually performs the assigned task with any degree of competence.
But beyond the inherent silliness of building a breakfast machine (here), or a soup robot (here) there is an underlying sense of freedom and exploration. Her invention may be silly, and it may not work, but they are amusing to both the builder and the viewer. She even made a Tesla pickup before Elon Musk!
On a more serious note, she has also shared with her followers her journey through brain surgery for a non-malignant tumor, and the return of that tumor, and her recent move from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
What shines through all of her videos is the joy she takes in making things both large and small, useless and useful, successful and unsuccessful. This young woman has a lesson to teach us about trying things without putting expectations on ourselves, simply for the joy of allowing our creativity free rein.
Even if you don't watch her other videos, I strongly recommend her TED talk from 2018. She talks about performance anxiety, letting go, and why you should build something useless.
And that's a lesson we all need to learn.