Memos by Brian Swichkow

• Claremont, CA

  Claremont is a California city, officially incorporated on October 3, 1907, that now covers more than 13 square miles with a population of over 34,000 residents, according to the city's history page....

• Culver City, CA

  Culver City is a California city founded by Harry H. Culver, incorporated in 1917, with a population of 40,779 at the 2020 United States Census. The city's fact sheet names the Gabrieliños, or...

• fusion power

  Fusion power is the effort to develop an energy source based on controlled fusion, the process in which two atomic nuclei combine to form a new nucleus, as occurs in the Sun and other stars. The US...

• Anxious Attachment

  Anxious attachment is the insecure attachment pattern that researchers have called anxious-resistant in infants and anxious/ambivalent in adults, associated with worry about whether an attachment...

• Sugarfish

  Sugarfish is a full-service sushi restaurant from Sushi Nozawa Group that serves traditional Japanese-style sushi with omakase-style service based on the methods of chef Kazunori Nozawa. According to...

• Highland Park, CA

  Highland Park is a community in the City of Los Angeles, located northeast of downtown in the Arroyo Seco and home to the Highland Park-Garvanza Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ). Los Angeles...

• consulting

  consulting is the activity or business of giving expert advice about a particular subject, and, used before a noun, describes someone who gives advice on a particular subject, as in a consulting...

• Soft Power

  soft power is a way of dealing with other countries that involves using economic and cultural influence to persuade them to do things, rather than military power. Oxford Learner's files the term...

• reverence

  reverence is a feeling of admiring and respecting somebody or something very much, a formal word that the Oxford Learner's Dictionary illustrates with reverence for nature, for elders, and for human...

• acceptance

  acceptance is the act of accepting something offered, agreement with and approval of something, admission into a group, or the quality of being willing to accept an unpleasant or difficult situation....

• Trigger

  trigger is the small projecting tongue on a firearm that, when pressed by the finger, fires the weapon, and by extension anything that initiates a reaction or series of reactions, including something...

• sandbag

  sandbag is a bag filled with sand, used in fortification, as ballast, or as a weapon; as a verb, it means to furnish something with sandbags or, informally, to attack, coerce, thwart, or gain an...

• trauma

  trauma is a very frightening or upsetting experience, a mental condition caused by severe shock, stress or fear, or, in medical use, a physical injury. The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary...

• spell

  spell names words thought to have magic power or to make a piece of magic work, and also a short period of time during which something lasts; as a verb, it means to say or write the letters of a word...

• healing

  healing is the process of becoming or making somebody or something healthy again, and, as the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary adds, the process of getting better after an emotional shock....

• Bolt.new

  Bolt.new is an ai-powered builder for websites, web apps and mobile apps that turns a natural-language prompt into a working project. StackBlitz presents Bolt.new on its website and says Bolt is...

• Yelp

  Yelp is a platform for discovering and reviewing local businesses; its about page says "Yelp connects people with great local businesses." Consumers search for restaurants, home and garden services,...

• Amazon Music

  Amazon Music is a music and podcast streaming service from Amazon, offered in tiers that Amazon's pages name Amazon Music Free, Amazon Music Prime and Amazon Music Unlimited. According to Amazon,...

• MemGPT

  MemGPT is an open-source project for giving large language model agents self-editing memory, begun as a research project at UC Berkeley. The website of Letta lists "MemGPT: The LLM Operating System"...

• Maker Studios

  Maker Studios was a network of online video content on YouTube, based in Culver City, California, with operations in New York and London. When Disney announced its purchase on March 24, 2014, it...