Memos by Brian Swichkow

Lisa Broderick
Lisa Broderick is an executive and author who holds leadership roles as a Partner at 100 Coaches Agency and CEO of Marshall Goldsmith Advisors. She is also the co-author, with Marshall Goldsmith, of...
Slow Ventures
Slow Ventures is a generalist early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Dave Morin, Kevin Colleran, and Sam Lessin, all former Facebook executives. With offices in San Francisco, Boston,...
Sam Lessin
Sam Lessin is an investor, founder, and former product operator, and a General Partner at Slow Ventures, the early-stage venture firm he co-founded in 2011. He writes the "Modest Proposals" column at...
Feeld
Feeld is a dating app, launched in 2014, for people exploring relationships outside conventional monogamy — ethical non-monogamy, polyamory, kink, swinging, and queer dating among them — used both by...
jealousy
jealousy is the painful mix of fear, anger, and insecurity felt when a valued relationship, or the attention and affection it provides, seems threatened by a rival. The word carries two older senses...
consent
consent is voluntary approval of, or agreement to, what another person does or proposes — permission given freely by someone with the understanding and standing to give it. As a verb it means to give...
Self-RADAR
RADAR is a structured monthly relationship check-in framework created by the Multiamory team to bring clarity, intentionality, and proactive communication into partnerships of all kinds. It stands...
Self-RADAR Pre-Population
My Self-RADAR{bold} Pre-Population Process is how I hand the chronological half of my weekly Self-RADAR to AI agents: they gather what happened in my week from my digital records and draft it, so my...
Holding Space
Holding space is the practice of staying fully present with someone through what they are experiencing, without judging, fixing, or steering the outcome, so they can feel and process on their own...
Snap
Snap (NYSE: SNAP) is the American technology company behind Snapchat, the messaging app launched in 2011, and Specs, its augmented reality glasses. It earns most of its revenue from advertising, adds...
Impossible Foods
Impossible Foods is a privately held American food company, founded in 2011, that makes plant-based substitutes for beef, pork, and chicken, sold through grocery retailers and restaurant chains. It...
Atlas Berry
Atlas Berry is an American venture-capitalist and the founder and general partner of Mission One Capital (M1C), a Miami-based early-stage firm he launched in 2021. M1C invests in startups across the...
The LA Grind
The LA Grind by Just Go Grind brings together over 6,000 members, acting as a curated community for founders, builders, and investors in the startup scenes of Los Angeles, CA and San Francisco, CA....
Silverlake, CA
Silver Lake is a residential and commercial neighborhood in central Los Angeles, CA, named for the reservoir at its center and known for its modernist hillside architecture and its place in LGBT...
Ron Conway
Ron Conway (Ronald Crawford Conway, born March 9, 1951) is an American angel-investor and the co-founder of SV Angel, a San Francisco seed-stage investment firm. Through Angel Investors LP, SV Angel,...
Cloud Country
Cloud Country is a model for founding a new polity by building digital community first and acquiring physical territory last, proposed by Balaji Srinivasan as the most viable path to starting a new...
Types of Capital
Types of Capital is a framework that recognizes value in many forms beyond money — counting time, knowledge, relationships, creative work, and attention as real, accountable wealth. It treats an...
Welcome | One Place
Getting Started in One Place ... Primary Channels The \laughing, \playing, etc. are intended to be intuitive, not exact (i.e. go where you feel called in the moment). People playing evolve the play....
Bambu Lab R1
Bambu Lab R1 is a 55-watt CO₂ laser-cutter and engraver from Bambu Lab, launched in September 2026 as the company's first standalone machine that is not a 3D printer. The R1 works a 600 × 300 mm bed...
Adobe
Adobe is an American software company founded in 1982, known for Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Premiere Pro, and for pioneering the creative software subscription model with Creative Cloud....