Memos by Brian Swichkow

The Trifecta of Moats
"The trifecta of moats is data, user experience, and community." — Vidya Narayanan The framework identifies three compounding defensibility layers that, when combined, create durable competitive...
Al-Anon
Al-Anon Family Groups is a worldwide mutual-aid fellowship offering a program of recovery to the families and friends of alcoholics, whether or not the alcoholic recognizes a problem or seeks help....
Ally Iseman
Ally Iseman is an ICF-certified relationship coach and the founder of Passport 2 Pleasure, a coaching practice and publication focused on modern relationship structures. She has worked as an educator...
Smart-Kickoff: Why AI Agents Lose Context Before They Start
AI coding agents often fail before they write code, because the session starts with either too little context or too much. The hard part is not storing more instructions; it is deciding what the...
RACK
RACK — Risk-Aware Consensual Kink — is a risk philosophy for kink holding that no activity is truly safe, so partners are responsible for understanding an activity's actual risks and deciding...
FRIES
FRIES is a five-part standard for valid consent created by Planned Parenthood — Freely given, Reversible, Informed, Enthusiastic, and Specific — defining the conditions under which agreement counts...
One, Inc. // Privacy Policy
We, One, Inc., are reinventing the relationships between entities that have been previously called 'users' and 'platforms'. See: https://mythos.one/privacy
RSA // v1
The v1 form of the Resonance Share Agreement — the self-serve instrument that replaced the 90-minute consult of RSA // v0. A Citizen composed their own agreement by answering it, and the results were...
Resonance Share Agreement
The Resonance Share Agreement, or RSA, was a lightweight, living agreement between a Citizen and One Inc as a worker cooperative. It recorded a mutually beneficial exchange of capital between a...
Immigration Form
http://inc.one/immigration Landing One Inc Cooperative // Immigration Form Your information will never be shared or sold outside the cooperative. Your responses will be shared with our community to...
Imagined Communities
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism is Benedict Anderson's 1983 book defining the nation as "an imagined political community — and imagined as both inherently...
Narrative Stewardship
Narrative stewardship is the cultivation and ongoing management of a narrative, typically in relation to a brand, project, or individual identity. Drawing inspiration from concepts such as Living...
Living System
A\\ living system\\ is an open, self-organizing life form that interacts with its environment. These systems are maintained by flows of information, energy, and matter. Some scientists have proposed...
Wikinomics
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything is Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams' 2006 book arguing that self-organizing peers, working outside any firm's payroll, have become an...
AGENTS.md
The AGENTS.md file is the OpenClaw configuration file that functions as a registry of specialized sub-agents — the directory the primary OpenClaw agent consults when deciding which virtual specialist...
Tool
A Tool in Claude Code is a typed capability the agent can invoke during a session — built-in (Read, Write, Edit, Bash, etc.), MCP-provided, or skill-provided — each governed by the permissions system...
Hook
A Hook in Claude Code is a shell command the harness executes automatically in response to lifecycle events — tool calls, notifications, prompt submission, session start or stop — without explicit...
Worktree
A Worktree in Claude Code is an isolated git worktree the harness creates for an agent's file edits, spawned via isolation: "worktree" in the Agent tool to prevent parallel agents from colliding on...
settings.json
settings.json in Claude Code is the configuration file at ~/.claude/settings.json (or .claude/settings.local.json per-project) that controls permissions, hooks, environment variables, and MCP server...
Model
Model in Claude Code refers to the specific Claude model the session runs on — Opus, Sonnet, or Haiku — switched via the /model slash command, with different cost, latency, and context window...