Memos by Brian Swichkow
- 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...
- Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder is a mental-health-condition marked by recurring episodes of mania or hypomania and depression that shift a person's mood, energy, activity and ability to function. The Diagnostic...
- The Premise of BPD
Why there's no stand-up about BPD—and the premise that helped me move forward For the last 18 months or so, I've been studying Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Not as a clinician, but as...
- Jensen Abler
Jensen Abler is a Los Angeles–based visual effects artist who works as a VFX generalist. His Zerply profile lists twelve years in the field, including generalist engagements at MPC, Method Studios,...
- OpusClip
OpusClip is an ai-powered video-editor, launched in 2022, that turns long-form video into short, captioned clips formatted for vertical platforms such as TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels....
- Eva Hooft
Eva Hooft is a holistic detox and spiritual life coach and the founder of The Realignment Method, LLC, a root-cause health coaching practice built on her REALIGNMENT Method: a four-pillar framework...
- Rachel Blair
Rachel Blair is a Los Angeles operations executive specializing in client operations, systems consolidation, and team enablement for confidential, high-touch care businesses. From 2022 to 2026 she...
- Wispr Flow
Wispr Flow is the flagship product of Wispr AI, a San Francisco company founded in 2021 that builds voice-driven text input. Flow is a cross-platform speech-to-text application that converts spoken...
- Alyson Badhwar
- Hacker Typer
Hacker Typer is a 2011 web novelty by duiker101 that simulates movie-grade hacking — press any key and pre-written source code streams onto a green-on-black terminal, regardless of which keys you...
- Philip Rosedale
Philip Rosedale is an American entrepreneur and founder best known for creating Second Life, the virtual world he built through Linden Lab starting in 1999. Second Life became one of the most...
- Degenerative System
A degenerative system, in Ethan Roland and Gregory Landua's Regenerative Enterprise, is one that grows financial and material capital by depleting the living, cultural, and spiritual capital that...
- Regenerative Enterprise
Regenerative Enterprise: Optimizing for Multi-capital Abundance is a 2013 book by Ethan C. Roland and Gregory Landua arguing that enterprises can produce wealth while increasing the health of the...
- Nurture Capitals
Nurture capitals are the four forms of capital — social, cultural, spiritual, and living — that Ethan Roland and Gregory Landua name as the pools from which living systems spring, and which an...
- Harvesting the Surplus
Harvesting the surplus is the principle, from Ethan Roland and Gregory Landua's Regenerative Enterprise, that an enterprise may take only the excess a healthy system produces, never the core pools of...
- Multi-Capital Abundance
Multi-capital abundance is the goal Ethan Roland and Gregory Landua set in Regenerative Enterprise: a system healthy enough across all eight forms of capital that it yields a harvestable surplus in...
- Regenerative System
A regenerative system, in Ethan Roland and Gregory Landua's Regenerative Enterprise, is one that actively grows every form of capital it touches, going beyond sustainability's aim of keeping depleted...
- Edges and Connections
Edges and connections is the principle, from Ethan Roland and Gregory Landua's Regenerative Enterprise, that regenerative systems grow the quality, complexity, and connectivity of capital rather than...
- Permaculture
Permaculture is a design philosophy and practice that applies ecological principles to create regenerative systems, originating in agriculture but extending to economics, community design, and...
- 8 Forms of Capital
8 Forms of Capital is a framework by Ethan Roland Soloviev and Gregory Landua, first published in 2011, that maps eight kinds of wealth flowing through any enterprise or community, so that money is...