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Where did your idea come from? In the case of Bronx Native founder Amaurys Grullon, it was neighborhood pride and lack of representation. Another founder followed a similar path, as many entrepreneurs do, and found a way to fill a need. Helen Mayer started Otter to help working parents with child care.

Follow several other innovative founders, including one who founded the master distiller (whiskey), who showed Jack Daniel the process of making whiskey. Another who started creating diamonds in a lab, and many more. Follow The Solo List from Sidekick on Morning Brew.

What’s the origin of Mother Nature and Father Time? Father Time has many origin stories, one most familiar is the Greek origin story of Chronos and his child. Others associated Father Time as the personification of death or the Grim Reaper.

Mother Nature, on the other hand, is all about birth, life, and the earth. Father Time = Death | Mother Nature = Life, huh, that sounds about right.

Memories Group Limited, based out of Australia and describes itself as a digital legacy platform, has a website and an app that will let you write a letter to your future self. After you write your letter, you can decide when to deliver it. There is also a section where you can read other people’s letters if they’ve made them public. It’s an exciting concept that has been going on for 20 years. That’s a lot of notes. Check it out here.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have been busy in 2022 and just released a second album in the same year. Loudwire reports and lead signer Anthony Kiedis also discusses how drug addiction almost blew up the band with Joe Rogan. In the story, Kiedis recounts the first time he met the legendary Rick Rubin, who came to watch the Peppers rehearse in the mid-80s. According to Kiedis, Rubin left quickly and said something to the effect of “someone is gonna die.” By that, Rubin felt the band was so dark and out of control that it was only a matter of time before something terrible was bound to happen.

Fortunately for Rubin and the band, they cleaned up, and Rubin worked with them on 1991’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Rubin has gone on to work with the band on several other albums and projects. Redemption and discipline can make beautiful music, after all.

Let this one inch your brain for a bit; coming soon!

Can you take me higher?

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With A Shout Team