Memos by Brian Swichkow

Million Dollar Marketing Practices
Million Dollar Marketing Practices is a marketing resource hub created by Brian Swichkow for consultants, advisors, and small business owners. It published articles on relationship and referral...
Facebook Marketplace
Facebook Marketplace is the classifieds surface built into Facebook, launched in 2016, where users list and browse goods for local peer-to-peer sale with no listing fee and no required platform...
Gridfinity
Gridfinity is an open modular storage standard for 3D Printing, built on a 42 mm square grid and 7 mm height increments, in which printed baseplates hold interchangeable bins that fit any drawer,...
Ender 3 V2
Ender 3 V2 is a budget open-frame FDM 3d-printer released by Creality in 2020, typically selling between $275 and $300 as a partially assembled kit. It prints a 220 × 220 × 250 mm volume through a...
Ender
Ender is a real estate technology company that builds an integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for property management. Founded in 2019 by Jonathan Lonsdale, it sells to professional...
Creality
Creality (HKEX: 3388) is a Chinese manufacturer of consumer 3D Printing hardware, founded in Shenzhen in 2014 by Chen Chun, Ao Danjun, Liu Huilin, and Tang Jingke. It produces desktop FDM and resin...
Arctic Shift
Arctic Shift is an open-source project by Arthur Heitmann that makes large-scale Reddit data available to researchers, Moderators, and developers through three surfaces: bulk data dumps, a public...
The Grammar of Sovereign Relating: Needs, Boundaries, Requests, Desires
The Grammar of Sovereign Relating is a four-category framework — needs, boundaries, requests, and desires — for phrasing what one wants in intimacy so that ownership stays with the self, translating...
ANCHORS
ANCHORS is a framework for sovereign relating — a living agreement held across seven domains (Anchor, Narrative, Co-creation, Health, Others, Repair, Systems) that keeps ownership of one's needs,...
Incorruptible
Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad... and How Great Companies Stay Great is Eric Ries' 2026 book arguing that corporate drift from founding principles is a structural governance failure, not a...
Don't Be Evil
"Don't Be Evil" is the first podcast-episode of the Everything They Know podcast, hosted by Ari Andersen. Ari opens with the frame that carries the series: Harari's Faustian bargain between humans...
This Will Change Everything
"This Will Change Everything" is the eighth podcast-episode of the Everything They Know podcast, hosted by Ari Andersen. Recorded in late March 2020, weeks into COVID-19 lockdown, this is a special...
While We Were Looking
"While We Were Looking Over There" is the second podcast-episode of the Everything They Know podcast, hosted by Ari Andersen. Ari opens on the ten-year whiplash from techno-optimism to a "society of...
Extraordinary Levels
"Extraordinary Levels of Specificity" is the fourth podcast-episode of the Everything They Know podcast, hosted by Ari Andersen. Ari opens with the rigged-poker frame — you're betting against a house...
Judy Estrin
Judy Estrin is an internet pioneer, Silicon Valley leader, technology entrepreneur, author of Closing the Innovation Gap, and CEO of JLabs. Since 1981, Estrin has co-founded over ten technology...
Everything They Know
Everything They Know is a podcast about how technology giants harvest behavioral data for profit, and how this Human Use of Human Beings destroys our society. It was launched on February 4, 2020....
Ignoring the Harm
Ignoring the harm is the pattern Judy Estrin identifies in industries whose incentives reward growth over consequence: executives rarely set out to do damage — they ignore early signals, dismiss...
Friction as a Good Thing
Friction as a good thing is Judy Estrin's counter-axiom to Silicon Valley's frictionless ideal: some level of resistance in systems and in daily life is healthy, and engineering all of it away makes...
Eric Yang (Junto)
Eric Yang is a social-media founder who left Vanderbilt University to build Junto, a nonprofit social network "founded in the spirit of authenticity." Junto was structured as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit —...
Sarah Miller (Economic Liberties)
Sarah Miller is an American antimonopoly advocate and the founding executive director of the American Economic Liberties Project, described by The New York Times as "central to making the issue [of...