Memos by Brian Swichkow

Jack Sussman
Jack Sussman is a television executive and producer recognized for his influence on live event broadcasting in the United States. Over a 25-year career at CBS Entertainment, Jack Sussman played a...
Patricia Viado
Patricia Viado is the Business Pro lead for adobe.com at Adobe, responsible for the strategy and stewardship of the platform-product experience on the Adobe domain as it serves business and...
XTEINK
Xteink is a brand of ultra-thin, pocket-sized e-ink e-readers built around distraction-free, subscription-free reading. Its two current models — the X3 (3.7", 259 PPI, gyroscope shake-to-turn-page,...
Otter.ai
Otter is an ai-powered assistant that generates notes for meetings, interviews, lectures, and other important voice conversations, automatically. Founded in 2016 by Sam Liang and Yun Fu and based in...
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF)
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit and the world's largest provider of HIV/AIDS medical care, serving more than 3 million patients across roughly 50 countries. AHF...
Crosspoint Reader
CrossPoint Reader is a community-maintained, MIT-licensed, open-source firmware for the XTEINK X3 and X4 e-ink e-readers, replacing the stock software with EPUB 2/3 rendering and expanded reading...
Tzen Lai
Tzen (Suzanne) Lai is a product strategist, systems thinker, and embodied transformation guide whose work bridges technology, human behavior, relational dynamics, and conscious power. She is the...
Lisa Broderick
Lisa Broderick is an executive and author who holds leadership roles as a Partner at 100 Coaches Agency and CEO of Marshall Goldsmith Advisors. She is also the co-author, with Marshall Goldsmith, of...
Authorix
Authorix is an authority-search platform and API that ranks real human experts by measured authority — whether the expert community actually follows, cites, and engages with them — rather than by...
Exa.ai
Exa operates as a specialized search infrastructure that prioritizes semantic relevance over lexical matching. By leveraging an in-house retrieval model, it identifies web content that aligns with...
Thomas Slabbers
Thomas Slabbers is an entrepreneur and the founder of SocialDatabase focused on advertising relevance for X (Twitter) and Reddit. He studied at Nyenrode Business University. His work centers on...
SocialDatabase
SocialDatabase is a Netherlands-based company that develops audience-targeting and social-data solutions for advertisers and agencies. The firm processes publicly available data from major platforms...
Maciek Laskus
Maciek Laskus runs a venture-funded team that is extremely strong on data science and experienced with indexing social graphs. Previously they have built, among other things, the most advanced...
How to Start a New Country
How to Start a New Country is Balaji Srinivasan's framework for founding a Network State — beginning as a digital-first community with shared culture and economy, then acquiring physical territory in...
Cloud Country
Cloud Country is a model for founding a new polity by building digital community first and acquiring physical territory last, proposed by Balaji Srinivasan as the most viable path to starting a new...
Cloud Community
A cloud community is a digital ecosystem structured around interest-driven collectives rather than individual profiles. These communities typically emerge on platforms with democratic...
ANCHOR
ANCHOR is a framework for sovereign relating — a living agreement held across six domains (Anchor, Narrative, Co-creation, Health, Others, Repair) that keeps ownership of one’s needs, limits, and...
O=1 Visa
The O=1 Visa — "Individuals with Extraordinary Spirit" — was the membership application for One Inc during its years as a worker cooperative. Cast as a playful riff on the U.S. O-1 visa for...
self
The self, with a capital T and a lowercase s, is to mean oneself; the Skin Encapsulated Ego that is a disguise of the true nature of self, the royal Self. The distinction the lowercase letter carries...
superlative
superlative is the degree of grammatical comparison that denotes an extreme or unsurpassed level or extent — the form of an adjective or adverb expressing the highest degree, as in nicest, worst, or...