Memos by Brian Swichkow
- The Ultimate Retribution: Divorcing a Dildo with AI
In January, after four years of marriage, I told my wife I wanted to separate. I’d recorded episodes for the Future Wife Podcast for seven years before we were introduced at Symposium—slowly...
- Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)
Fused deposition modeling (FDM) is the additive manufacturing process that builds an object by extruding melted thermoplastic filament through a heated nozzle and depositing it in stacked layers. The...
- Ari Tuchman
Ari Tuchman is a transactional attorney and the principal and founder of Tuchman Law, APC, a boutique law firm in Los Angeles, CA. The firm, which he launched in February 2026, advises businesses,...
- Julie Hughes
Julie Hughes is an experienced product management leader specializing in digital health and fintech solutions. Currently serving as Director of Product at AllaiHealth, Inc., she spearheads the...
- Andrew Flachner
Andrew Flachner is an entrepreneur and the President and Chief Executive Officer of RealScout, a technology company focused on enhancing the residential real estate experience for agents and clients....
- Levels of Driving Automation
Levels of Driving Automation is the six-level taxonomy defined by SAE International’s J3016 standard — adopted by the U.S. Department of Transportation — that classifies how much of the driving task...
- RADAR
RADAR is a structured communication framework originally developed by the creators of the Multiamory podcast to support regular, intentional check-ins in romantic relationships. The acronym stands...
- Self-RADAR
RADAR is a structured monthly relationship check-in framework created by the Multiamory team to bring clarity, intentionality, and proactive communication into partnerships of all kinds. It stands...
- Playboy Collage
The Playboy Collage is a framed collage built from the last banker's box of My Vintage Playboy Collection — the issues nobody claimed at the Playboy Perusing Potluck Party. It took somewhere around...
- Playboy Perusing Potluck Party
The Playboy Perusing Potluck Party was my 39th birthday party and the distribution mechanism for My Vintage Playboy Collection — six banker's boxes of vintage Playboy magazines, laid out to be read....
- My Vintage Playboy Collection
My Vintage Playboy Collection was over 250 issues of Playboy going back to 1974 — six banker's boxes of them — won by accident with a junk bid on a MaxSold estate auction in January 2026. Roughly...
- 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,...
- Brian Swichkow
Brian Swichkow is a marketing strategist, entrepreneur, and author recognized for his diverse expertise across Growth Engineering and Go-To-Market (GTM) automation, including community-led and...
- Keiretsu
A keiretsu is a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings. In the legal sense, it is a type of informal business group that are loosely organized alliances within...
- Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
Not to be confused with Agentic Engine Optimization, a separate discipline that shares the AEO acronym but targets AI coding agents rather than answer engines. Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), also...
- Your AI Search Tracking Measures a Third of the Journey
You are tracking which AI answers mention your brand. The number moves, and nobody can tell you whether it moved anything else — traffic, pipeline, or the searches people run next. The Challenge...
- Axis Mundi
Axis Mundi is a term from comparative religion for the world axis — the point or line at the center of a cosmology where heaven, earth, and underworld meet and passage between them becomes possible....
- YMYL
YMYL — "Your Money or Your Life" — is Google's label for content whose inaccuracy could materially harm a reader's health, financial stability, safety, or well-being, and which its quality raters...
- the Armory
the Armory is a 200,000-square-foot Moorish Revival castle at Mission and 14th Streets in San Francisco, CA, built between 1912 and 1914 as a National Guard armory and arsenal. The architectural firm...
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA is a city and county of roughly 800,000 residents occupying the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, and the cultural and financial anchor of the nine-county Bay Area. The...