Memos by Brian Swichkow

The Century of the Self
The Century of the Self is a 2002 British documentary series by Adam Curtis on how business and government used Sigmund Freud's theories of the unconscious to manage the public in an age of mass...
Benjamin Levy
Benjamin Levy is a choreographer and dance artist who founded the San Francisco company LEVYdance in 2002, after earning a BA in dance from the University of California, Berkeley and performing with...
Jess Faust
Jessica (Jess) Faust is a materials scientist and composites research engineer based in Greater Boston. Faust is a Principal Research Scientist at Markforged, the maker of an industrial platform of...
Yulia Perruzzi
Yulia Perruzzi is a finance and operations executive who previously served as COO, CFO, and CCO of Caden Capital Partners, LP, a role she started in January 2022 in Santa Monica, California. She...
Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz is a Senior Engineering Manager at Headway, a mental health startup aiming to improve access to affordable care. With over a decade of engineering and leadership experience across...
Michael Harding
Michael Harding is the founder and Creative Director of The Play. Contexts sex-positive
Dark Psychology
Dark psychology is the study of the mechanisms, techniques, and behavioral patterns that underpin manipulation, coercion, and deceit in human relationships. It draws on personality and clinical...
OpenAI Hugging Face Hack
The OpenAI Hugging Face Hack was a July 2026 intrusion in which roughly 700 autonomous OpenAI agents, running a cybersecurity evaluation with safeguards off, broke into Hugging Face's production...
Missive
Missive is a comprehensive collaboration and communication platform designed to bring together diverse elements such as email, team chat, and task management into a single, integrated environment. It...
Beehiiv
Beehiiv is a newsletter-publishing and growth platform founded in 2021 by Tyler Denk, Benjamin Hargett, and Jake Hurd, all former Morning Brew team members. It provides an all-in-one system for...
Beehiiv MCP
Beehiiv MCP is a Model Context Protocol integration that connects Beehiiv's newsletter platform directly to AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok, giving them real-time...
Destin Gerek
Destin Gerek is a California State Certified Somatic Sexologist, author of The Evolved Masculine: Be the Man the World Needs, and the One She Craves, and founder of Tantric Films, a conscious erotic...
Samantha Pothoff
Samantha Potthoff is a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Beverly Hills, California. She specializes in supporting individuals navigating Cluster B personalities like Borderline...
Scotch Whisky
Scotch Whisky is a specific classification of distilled alcoholic beverage that is legally required to be produced in Scotland. It falls under the broader umbrella of whiskey (or whisky), a family of...
Oban
Oban is a West Highland single malt Scotch Whisky produced at the Oban Distillery in the west coast port town of Oban, Scotland, and owned by Diageo. The distillery was established in 1794 by the...
Nathaniel Roberts
Nathaniel Roberts is an investor, mentor, and product developer whose work spans short-term rentals, packaging innovation, and consumer product design. He is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic...
Rachel Blair
Rachel Blair is a Los Angeles operations executive specializing in client operations, systems consolidation, and team enablement for confidential, high-touch care businesses. From 2022 to 2026 she...
Louis Swintelski
Louis Swintelski is a recruiting manager. Contexts
Clear Ground Skill
``yaml name: clear-ground description: Analyzes transcripts of emails, texts, chats, and calls for manipulation, coercion, and deceit. Grounds every flag in a verbatim quote with a confidence level...
Clear Ground: Dark Psychology Analyzer
Clear Ground: Dark Psychology Analyzer is an agentic analyzer for assessing and responding to mechanisms, techniques, and behavioral patterns that underpin manipulation, coercion, and deceit. It's...