Memos by Brian Swichkow

The Trifecta of Moats
"The trifecta of moats is data, user experience, and community." — Vidya Narayanan The framework identifies three compounding defensibility layers that, when combined, create durable competitive...
Bugonia
Bugonia is a 2025 satirical thriller directed by Yorgos Lanthimos in which two conspiracy-convinced men kidnap a pharmaceutical executive they believe is an alien. Written by Will Tracy and adapted...
Harvey
Harvey is a privately held artificial-intelligence platform built for legal and professional-services work, founded in 2022. It applies large language models to the document-heavy tasks that fill a...
have to
A wholly different way of thinking underlies “I can”, “I choose to”, and “I want to”. The story of powerlessness cannot be told with them. Reflections "Marshall Rosenberg suggests rephrasing every...
Narrative Immunity
Narrative immunity is the collective ability of a community or organization to withstand distortion, gossip, and misinformation after rupture or change. It functions as a social immune...
OnlyFans
OnlyFans is a subscription-based social-platform that enables creators to monetize content by offering it directly to fans, most commonly through paid subscriptions and pay-per-view media. The...
Rachel Hepworth
Rachel Hepworth is the Chief Marketing Officer of Harvey, the AI legal-technology platform, a role she has held since April 2026, and a marketing-executive and startup-advisor recognized for scaling...
Moz
Moz is a leading provider of SEO and marketing analytics software, founded in 2004 as SEOmoz by Rand Fishkin and Gillian Muessig. The company began as a collaborative blog and community, shifted to a...
STAT Search Analytics
STAT Search Analytics is a Moz product that tracks search rankings and Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) at enterprise scale, refreshing positions daily across large keyword sets segmented by...
Comet Partner
A comet partner, also called a satellite partner, is a romantic connection in Consensual Non-Monogamy (CNM) characterized by geographic distance and infrequent but meaningful encounters. What Is a...
Steph Sinn
Steph Sinn, also known as Steph in Space, is a multidisciplinary creator and wellness mentor based in Los Angeles, CA. She works as a model, private retreat chef, and mentor, blending creative and...
AI Augmentation vs AI Automation
AI Augmentation vs AI Automation is the foundational distinction in how organizations and individuals integrate Artificial Intelligence into their work. Automation replaces human labor in a process....
Yulia Perruzzi
Yulia Perruzzi is a finance and operations executive who previously served as COO, CFO, and CCO of Caden Capital Partners, LP, a role she started in January 2022 in Santa Monica, California. She...
Melissa Ladybug
Contexts
Teagan Morrison
Teagan Morrison is the chief executive of Sky Castle Studios, the Santa Monica, CA studio behind Hero Forge, the browser-based character customizer that turns a tabletop player's design into a...
West Hollywood, CA
West Hollywood, CA is an independent city of 1.9 square miles and roughly 36,000 residents wedged between Los Angeles, CA and Beverly Hills, best known for the Sunset Strip and as one of the most...
Cora Wood
Cora Wood is a Los Angeles-based actor, producer, and director whose screen credits include a supporting role opposite Sarita Choudhury in the Blumhouse thriller Evil Eye (2020) and a principal bit...
Spiritually Transmitted Infection (STI)
A spiritually transmitted infection (STI) is a vibe, a mood, distortion, or unexamined belief, that passes from one person to another through contact and that, unlike its sexual namesake, is treated...
sex magic
Sex magic is the practice of using sexual energy and intention to achieve personal transformation, heightened awareness, or specific outcomes. Rooted in esoteric traditions, sex magic appears in...
Feeling Good About Your Partners' Relationships: Compersion in Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships
Feeling Good About Your Partners' Relationships: Compersion in Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships is a 2021 study by Sharon M. Flicker, Michelle D. Vaughan, and Lawrence S. Meyers, published...