Memos by Brian Swichkow

Headspace
Headspace is a digital, health platform providing guided meditation and mindfulness training to its more than eight million users spread across 200 countries. Their content, a library with hundreds...
Stephen Shankland
Stephen Shankland is head of content at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, producing the blogs, social posts, and video that carry the company's work to a public audience, with the stated goal of making...
Alex Graziano
Alex Graziano is senior content marketing manager at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, working on the company's content program alongside head of content Stephen Shankland. A brand and content marketer by...
Ashley Kaika
Ashley Kaika is a marketer serving as VP of Partnerships at TigerTracks, the performance marketing agency founded by former Google Ads leaders. Based in New York, she joined Tiger Tracks in February...
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) is an MIT-spinout fusion-energy company founded in 2018 that is building SPARC, a demonstration tokamak, en route to ARC, a planned grid-scale fusion power plant....
TigerTracks
Tiger Tracks is a performance marketing-agency serving Direct to Consumer (DTC), e-commerce, and retail brands, combining media buying and creative production with proprietary AI tooling and...
The Notecard Game
The Notecard Game is a 24/7 sex-game in which two participants exchange color-coded notes containing specific sexual instructions, that must be followed upon discovery. Each person starts with ten...
Why the Conversation Space and the Play Space Must Be Separately Owned
The conversation space and the play space must be owned by separate entities. The people who host parties can own the venues, the production, and the parties themselves. The commons where a community...
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...
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...
Arianna Benitez
Arianna Benitez is an attorney in Foley & Lardner LLP's Business Law Department in Los Angeles, where she focuses on corporate and finance matters including energy transactions, mergers and...
Amazon Affiliate Links with Claude
Amazon Affiliate Links with Claude lets you write about a product and have your AI agent produce a correct, monetized Amazon link inline, without breaking flow to go search, copy a URL, and append a...
Amazon Affiliate Links with Claude — Agent Buildbook
This buildbook installs a skill that lets Claude Code find any product on Amazon and produce a correctly tagged affiliate link inline while writing, and it gates that skill behind the one validation...
Claude Code Slash Command Reference
Claude Code exposes its controls as slash commands typed at the start of a message; typing / alone lists everything available in the current build. Availability varies by plan, platform, and Command...
Resend CLI
Resend's CLI is its terminal interface with four headline features: local React Email file support, Automations management, webhook listening, and agent Skills. Available via cURL installer, npm, or...
Destructive Book Scanning
Destructive book scanning is the digitization method that removes a book's binding so the loose pages can be fed through a sheet-fed scanner — the fastest and most accurate way to convert a printed...
Oste
Oste is an Italian restaurant at 8142 West 3rd Street in Los Angeles, CA, built around pinsa romana — the long-fermented Roman flatbread that predates and is routinely mistaken for pizza. Pinsa takes...
Bartender
Bartender is a mac-app from Applause Group that takes over the macOS menu bar — deciding which items are shown, which are hidden, and under what conditions each appears. It is sold three ways: a...
ScanSnap iX2500
The ScanSnap iX2500 is a desktop sheet-fed document scanner released by Ricoh's PFU division in June 2025 and sold on Amazon from around $459.99. It scans A4 color documents double-sided at 45 pages...
unReal Holdings
unReal Holdings is a digital real estate company operated by Georges Elias that owns and brokers a portfolio of domain names. Its holdings run to the thousands and are concentrated in generic...