Memos by Brian Swichkow
- NanoLeaf
NanoLeaf Contexts
- First Prints for a New Printer
The parts worth printing in a new machine's first week — the ones that make the printer easier to live with, for someone who just unboxed one. Part of Getting Started with 3D Printing. Print for the...
- 3D Printer Starter Tools
What to buy alongside a new enclosed FDM printer — for someone who just ordered one and would rather not spend money they do not have to. Part of Getting Started with 3D Printing. Buy it with the...
- Venting a 3D Printer
Getting print emissions out of the room you sit in — for anyone running an enclosed FDM printer somewhere they also live or work. Part of Getting Started with 3D Printing. Decide between filtering...
- Filament Storage and Drying
How to store filament so a spool opened today still prints six months from now — for anyone whose collection has outgrown the box it arrived in. Part of Getting Started with 3D Printing. Store an...
- Getting Started with 3D Printing
Getting started with 3D printing on a current enclosed machine is a purchasing decision, a storage decision, and a ventilation decision — not a tuning project. Printers now arrive calibrated and hold...
- Bambu Lab
Bambu Lab is a Shenzhen-based 3D printer manufacturer, founded in 2020 by former DJI engineers, known for fast, enclosed CoreXY desktop printers with automated calibration and multi-material...
- 3D Printing Filament Types
Quick-reference for the everyday Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) filaments — what each one is genuinely good at, where it fails, and the printer conditions it demands. Specialty and novelty materials...
- Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed-care consortium founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield and headquartered in Oakland, California. It is one of the...
- Millennial Pokemon
Millennial Pokemon is a term for the increasingly widespread use of location sharing with the Find My app, especially among millennials in southern California. By letting people reveal their...
- The Trifecta of Moats
"The trifecta of moats is data, user experience, and community." — Vidya Narayanan The framework identifies three compounding defensibility layers that, when combined, create durable competitive...
- Bugonia
Bugonia is a 2025 satirical thriller directed by Yorgos Lanthimos in which two conspiracy-convinced men kidnap a pharmaceutical executive they believe is an alien. Written by Will Tracy and adapted...
- Harvey
Harvey is a privately held artificial-intelligence platform built for legal and professional-services work, founded in 2022. It applies large language models to the document-heavy tasks that fill a...
- have to
A wholly different way of thinking underlies “I can”, “I choose to”, and “I want to”. The story of powerlessness cannot be told with them. Reflections "Marshall Rosenberg suggests rephrasing every...
- Narrative Immunity
Narrative immunity is the collective ability of a community or organization to withstand distortion, gossip, and misinformation after rupture or change. It functions as a social immune...
- OnlyFans
OnlyFans is a subscription-based social-platform that enables creators to monetize content by offering it directly to fans, most commonly through paid subscriptions and pay-per-view media. The...
- Rachel Hepworth
Rachel Hepworth is the Chief Marketing Officer of Harvey, the AI legal-technology platform, a role she has held since April 2026, and a marketing-executive and startup-advisor recognized for scaling...
- Moz
Moz is a leading provider of SEO and marketing analytics software, founded in 2004 as SEOmoz by Rand Fishkin and Gillian Muessig. The company began as a collaborative blog and community, shifted to a...
- STAT Search Analytics
STAT Search Analytics is a Moz product that tracks search rankings and Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) at enterprise scale, refreshing positions daily across large keyword sets segmented by...
- Comet Partner
A comet partner, also called a satellite partner, is a romantic connection in Consensual Non-Monogamy (CNM) characterized by geographic distance and infrequent but meaningful encounters. What Is a...