Memos by Brian Swichkow

Stanford CS329A: Self-Improving AI Agents
Stanford CS329A: Self-Improving AI Agents is a graduate course at Stanford University on techniques that let AI agents improve themselves through interaction with their environment and with their own...
Generator
Generator is one of the Human Design System types, defined by a constant Sacral Center, with an enveloping aura, sustained life-force energy, and a strategy of waiting to respond. Generators make up...
Projector
Projector is the second-rarest Human Design System type, defined by having no Sacral Center, with a focused aura designed to guide and direct the energy of others rather than generate it. Projectors...
Reflector
Reflector is the rarest Human Design System type, defined by having no defined centers at all, and is designed to mirror the health of their community back to it. Reflectors make up roughly 1% of the...
Link
Link is a one-click checkout product operated by Stripe that lets customers save payment and shipping details once and autofill them across any Link-enabled merchant. Launched in the early 2020s as...
Jeff Katz
Jeff Katz is the Founder and President of SocialKatz, a digital marketing agency that helps brands grow through social media management, influencer marketing, paid media campaigns, and brand...
Human Design System
The Human Design System is a self-knowledge framework that synthesizes elements of astrology, the Hindu chakra system, the I Ching, Kabbalah, and quantum physics, mapping a person's energetic...
Muse
Muse is Meta's personal AI agent, launched in September 2026, that pursues a user's tasks and goals autonomously through a messaging interface, running on a dedicated cloud virtual machine. Muse is a...
Computer Numerical Control (CNC)
Computer Numerical Control (CNC) is the automated control of machining tools via programmed computer instructions, enabling precise, repeatable cutting, drilling, milling, and turning across metals,...
FarmBot
FarmBot is an open-source Computer Numerical Control (CNC) farming robot, made by FarmBot Inc. of San Luis Obispo, California, that plants, waters, weeds, and monitors a raised garden bed on an...
GigRadar
GigRadar is an AI lead-generation platform for UpWork agencies that automates job discovery, proposal writing, client conversations, and call booking from job post to pipeline. GigRadar is operated...
Consumer Packaged Goods Directory (CPGD)
Consumer Packaged Goods Directory (CPGD) is a curated discovery platform showcasing emerging Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands and the resources that support them, founded by Andrea Popova. It...
SocialDatabase
SocialDatabase is a Netherlands-based company that develops audience-targeting and social-data solutions for advertisers and agencies. The firm processes publicly available data from major platforms...
Manifestor
A Manifestor, as defined by The Human Design System (HDS), is a person who is able to successfully initiate actions and conversations without needing to respond or be invited. A Manifestor's "not...
Kindred
Kindred is a members-only-club and home exchange network designed for primary residences rather than short-term rentals. To ensure a trusted environment, every member must undergo a verification...
Richard Littauer
Richard Littauer is an entrepreneur, software-developer, user-experience-designer, writer, digital-maker, and poet. He founded Maintainer Mountaineer, an agency that helps open-source projects...
Jordan Epps
Jordan Epps is a software-engineer and Senior Software Engineer (L5) at Netflix, where he works on the Security Platforms Engineering team. His career has spanned full-stack development, engineering...
Tess Jablon
Tess Jablon is the Founder and Financial Organizer-in-Chief of Tess Makes Cents, Inc., a Los Angeles-based bookkeeping and financial organization practice serving creative professionals, touring...
Kayla Carlson
Kayla Carlson is a product-designer and Design Director at Atlassian, where she leads a creative team shaping the future of how teams collaborate on the Jira platform. Her career has spanned user...
Canto
Canto is a Wispr Flow speech recognition model built for real-time dictation, converting speech to text under the conditions people actually dictate in rather than clean, controlled ones. It was...