Memos by Brian Swichkow

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...
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....
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...
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...
Self-RADAR Pre-Population
Self-RADAR Pre-Population 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 time goes to the...
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....
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...
Ludimus Community House
Ludimus Community House is a community-house run by Teagan Morrison that offers shared living for housemates and short guest stays, organized around games, crafts, and communal meals. The house's...
Unddit
Unddit was a web tool for reading Reddit posts and comments removed by moderators or deleted by their authors, and its workflow survives at undelete.pullpush.io, which serves the same purpose today....
Google Search Console MCP
Our Google Search Console MCP is a local, read-only MCP server that exposes Google Search Console search-performance data — queries, pages, clicks, impressions, Click-Through Rate (CTR), and position...
Sunday Salon
Sunday Salon is a monthly Sunday gathering hosted by Brian Swichkow: a calm, unhurried afternoon for reconnecting with friends and co-regulating before the week ahead, closing with a shared family...
Pythia
Pythia is a research tool that can predict the potential reach, influence, and conversion. It does this by creating computer models of online communities and simulate testing. The Black Box system...
Resonance Score
Resonance Score is a single, unified metric created by CulturePulse to assess how strongly a message, creative, policy, or strategy is likely to resonate with a target audience, calculated by testing...
Clay
Clay is an ai-powered Go-To-Market (GTM) automation platform that enables companies to combine premium data sources with intelligent workflows to accelerate growth. Founded in 2017, it integrates...
Siri AI
Siri AI is Apple's rebuilt, conversational version of Siri, released in beta on September 14, 2026 with iOS 27 and the other 2027 software releases, powered by the next generation of Apple...
Qwen
Qwen is an Alibaba product — a family of predominantly open-weight large-language-models and multimodal models built by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud, also known by its Chinese name Tongyi Qianwen...
Qwen3.8
Qwen3.8 is the August 2026 generation of Qwen, Alibaba's large language model family, spanning the 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max flagship and a 27-billion-parameter dense open-weight model....
Qwen3.8-Max
Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba's flagship multimodal large language model and the largest in the Qwen family, a 2.4-trillion-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts system launched on August 3, 2026. The model...