Memos by Brian Swichkow

Weaponized ADHD
Weaponized ADHD refers to an informal practice of intentionally leveraging attention variability and episodes of hyperfocus associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) to align...
Chris Stoikos
Chris Stoikos is a serial entrepreneur and the founder and former CEO of The Beard Club, the men's grooming subscription brand launched in 2015 as Dollar Beard Club. Under his leadership the company...
Cerebras
Cerebras (Nasdaq: CBRS), formally Cerebras Systems, is an AI chipmaker and inference cloud provider founded in 2016 and led by co-founder and CEO Andrew Feldman, with co-founder Sean Lie as CTO. It...
Ralph
Ralph is an open-source, MIT-licensed autonomous coding loop published on GitHub by Ryan Carson (snarktank). It runs an AI coding agent repeatedly until every item in a Product Requirements Document...
Page-2 SEO Opportunity Audit — Loop Runbook
Each pass audits one finalized 28-day window of a site's Google Search Console data. It finds queries ranking on page 2 (positions 11–20) that have real impressions but almost no clicks, maps each to...
Daniel Kronovet
Daniel Kronovet is a New York City, NY-based software-engineer working in Machine Learning (ML). He works at Thesis Driven: a colleague's post calls him the company's CTO, and another describes him...
RadicalxChange
RadicalxChange is an international 501(c)(3) nonprofit, legally RadicalxChange Foundation Ltd., that advances participatory governance in the age of AI. Its stated mission is to help "communities...
Zaratan
Zaratan is a Los Angeles, CA coliving company that converts older buildings into high-density shared housing and runs them with Chore Wheel, its own open-source suite of collaboration tools. It...
Jake Block
Jake Block is a New York City, NY-based creative producer and Head of Clay Studios at Clay, the social, narrative, and media team he has led since October 2025. He is also co-founder and COO of Eat...
Cybernetic Governance in a Coliving House
Cybernetic Governance in a Coliving House is a 2024 paper by Daniel Kronovet, Seth Frey of UC Davis, and Joseph DeSimone. It reports an 18-month field experiment in running a nine-bedroom Los...
The CredSperiment
The CredSperiment: An Ethnography of a Contributions System is a 2023 paper by Ellie Rennie of RMIT University. It studies the CredSperiment, an experiment in which contributors to the SourceCred...
Atlas Berry
Atlas Berry is an American venture-capitalist and the founder and general partner of Mission One Capital, a Miami-based early-stage firm he launched in 2021. M1C invests in startups across the United...
Gunner Park
Gunner Park is a software-engineer and the founding forward-deployed engineer at Clay, where he builds enrichment pipelines, lead routing, and outbound orchestration systems for customers'...
Weston Clarke
Weston Clarke works at Clay, the go-to-market data and enrichment platform, and is based in San Francisco. Clarke co-authored Clay's August 2026 announcement of Clay Workflows, the orchestration...
Dane Williams
Dane Williams is a product engineer at Clay, the go-to-market data and enrichment platform, where they have worked in product and engineering since June 2025. Based in New York City, Williams works...
Sydney Friedman
Sydney "Syd" Friedman works on the partnerships team at Clay, the go-to-market data and enrichment platform. They work with Clay's agency partners, helping them find co-sell opportunities with Clay's...
Greyson Lampley
Greyson Lampley works on the solutions team at Clay, the go-to-market data and enrichment platform, and is based in San Francisco. Lampley describes their professional focus as cross-functional work...
Smart-Kickoff — Agent Buildbook
This buildbook guides your coding agent through adopting Smart-Kickoff — a launcher that treats agent startup as a load contract — into whatever stack you already run, by inventorying your...
Smart-Kickoff
Smart-Kickoff is a launcher for AI coding agent sessions created by One Inc that treats startup as a load contract, deciding which context an agent must read now, which loads only when a...
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...