Memos by Brian Swichkow
- The Inigo Montoya Method
The Inigo Montoya Method is a communication framework inspired by the character Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride (1973). It emphasizes a clear, structured sequence: polite greeting, personal...
- --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox
The --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox flag is an officially documented Command Line Interface (CLI) option for Codex that runs model-generated commands without approval prompts or OS-level...
- Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed-care consortium founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield and headquartered in Oakland, California. It is one of the...
- 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...