Memos by Brian Swichkow
- Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions
Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions is a psychological model developed by Robert Plutchik to map the relationships among human emotions, proposing eight primary emotions — joy, trust, fear, surprise,...
- Ryan Edwards
Ryan Edwards is a veteran marketing strategist and co-founder of CAMINO5 Agency, a Los Angeles, CA based consultancy specializing in consumer experience and brand development. With over 25 years in...
- Lauren Brown
Lauren Brown is an author and editor based in Los Angeles, CA. She studied English at Princeton University and later pursued film production and screenwriting at the USC School of Cinematic Arts....
- My Glasses
My Glasses help me see the world with greater clarity and, especially in more recent years, add a bit of style to how I walk through the world. I got my first pair of glasses when I was 11-years-old...
- Brendan Weafer
Brendan Weafer is a business leader and former-professional-athlete with a diverse career spanning corporate health, wellness, and entrepreneurship. After competing in 16 professional MMA and...
- Geoffrey von Maltzahn
Geoffrey von Maltzahn is an American biological engineer, scientist, and serial entrepreneur working at the intersection of biology and data science. A general partner at Flagship Pioneering since...
- Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540–1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, naval officer, and explorer of the Elizabethan era, best known as the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe, a voyage he...
- The Prayer of Sir Francis Drake
The Prayer of Sir Francis Drake — commonly titled "Disturb Us, Lord" — is a short devotional poem, traditionally ascribed to the Elizabethan explorer Sir Francis Drake, that asks to be shaken out of...
- DIY Reddit: Three Tactics to Stop Getting Deleted
DIY Reddit: Three Tactics to Stop Getting Deleted For a new business with no marketing budget, Reddit is the best place to start. You can run it yourself — you just can't run it at scale solo. But...
- Jack Sussman
Jack Sussman is an American television executive and producer recognized for shaping live event broadcasting in the United States. Over a 25-year career at CBS Entertainment, he served as Executive...
- Patricia Viado
Patricia Viado is the Business Pro lead for adobe.com at Adobe, responsible for the strategy and stewardship of the platform-product experience on the Adobe domain as it serves business and...
- XTEINK
Xteink is a brand of ultra-thin, pocket-sized e-ink e-readers built around distraction-free, subscription-free reading. Its two current models — the X3 (3.7", 259 PPI, gyroscope shake-to-turn-page,...
- Otter.ai
Otter is an ai-powered assistant that generates notes for meetings, interviews, lectures, and other important voice conversations, automatically. Founded in 2016 by Sam Liang and Yun Fu and based in...
- AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF)
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit and the world's largest provider of HIV/AIDS medical care, serving more than 3 million patients across roughly 50 countries. AHF...
- Crosspoint Reader
CrossPoint Reader is a community-maintained, MIT-licensed, open-source firmware for the XTEINK X3 and X4 e-ink e-readers, replacing the stock software with EPUB 2/3 rendering and expanded reading...
- Tzen Lai
Tzen (Suzanne) Lai is a product strategist, systems thinker, and embodied transformation guide whose work bridges technology, human behavior, relational dynamics, and conscious power. She is the...
- 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...
- Authorix
Authorix is an authority-search platform and API that ranks real human experts by measured authority — whether the expert community actually follows, cites, and engages with them — rather than by...
- Exa.ai
Exa operates as a specialized search infrastructure that prioritizes semantic relevance over lexical matching. By leveraging an in-house retrieval model, it identifies web content that aligns with...
- Thomas Slabbers
Thomas Slabbers is an entrepreneur and the founder of SocialDatabase focused on advertising relevance for X (Twitter) and Reddit. He studied at Nyenrode Business University. His work centers on...