 Hi, I'm Jerry Mikulski. That's me in the middle there. I had an insight about a decade ago that takes me right back to my childhood. I was raised as an expat kid in Peru and Argentina, and at some point when I was about seven years old, I fractured my tibia, swinging in crematory outside this living room. The American community came together and brought me some books, and I didn't have a lot of books in English, and among the books they brought me were a couple out of this series called the Rick Brant Science Adventure Stories. I had never heard of them, but I had been reading The Hardy Boys and a little bit of Tom Swift, and this series was right between the two. The Hardy Boys are basically two-boy detectives who are brothers, and Tom Swift is much more science fiction, in fact, fantasy science fiction kind of stuff. And Rick Brant had science in it, but Rick Brant was the son of Hartson Brant, the senior, the elder of a community of scientists who lived on Spindrift Island off the coast of New Jersey, a fictitious island, and traveled the world solving mysteries that involved science. It was really cool. I loved it. A few years later, I happened to cross Johnny Quest, a cartoon series that was on TV, which some of you might have seen, which is effectively the same thing, may in fact have been inspired by Rick Brant and similar sorts of series. But this is a scientific community solving mysteries around the world, although the mysteries here involve lizard people and stranger things. You'll imagine my surprise and delight when I discovered Tan Tan in Argentina, actually, because we had a neighbor, I had a neighbor friend who was of Italian family, and he had some Tan Tan's lying around in Italian. I spoke Spanish, but no Italian, but I kind of pieced together what was going on, but I thought the art was fantastic. And of course, Tan Tan is a boy detective wandering the world solving mysteries, seeing a pattern here, and here he is with his little dog Snowy, or Milu. And then, of course, you can imagine my delight on discovering Calvin and Hobbes. Now, Calvin is not busy solving any mysteries. He's trying to save the cosmos or do other kinds of things. But he has this playful ability to see everything around him with joy and with adventure and in different sorts of ways. So I really empathized. In fact, my first email address was spiffatwell.com. So I was spiffed for many years online until I sort of grew up and used my name. But all of these characters really formed a lot of my character. And now I'm a slightly grown-up boy detective going around solving mysteries around why the world is as screwed up as it is and how we can find our way out. This has turned into a thesis I call The Relationship Economy, which you can learn more about if you go to JerryMakulski.com. But it's been fun reflecting on what got me here and the strange parallels and all those things that I cared about so much as a kid.