Memos by Brian Swichkow
- 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...
- 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...
- Factors that Facilitate and Hinder the Experience of Compersion Among Individuals in Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships
Factors that Facilitate and Hinder the Experience of Compersion Among Individuals in Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships is a 2022 qualitative study by Sharon M. Flicker, Marie I....
- compersion
Compersion is a feeling of joy when a loved one invests in and takes pleasure from another romantic or sexual relationship, often described as the emotional opposite of jealousy. The term originated...
- Kerista Commune
The Kerista Commune was a San Francisco, CA intentional community, active from 1971 to 1991, that practiced closed group marriage and coined the terms polyfidelity and compersion. Founded by John...
- deterministic
deterministic describes a system, process, or rule whose outcome is fixed entirely by its initial conditions and inputs, so that the same starting point always produces the same result and nothing is...
- Cargo CDK
Cargo CDK is the declarative, infrastructure-as-code layer of Cargo that models a Go-To-Market (GTM) stack the way the AWS CDK models cloud infrastructure — every resource declared in code through a...
- polyfidelitous
polyfidelitous describes a relationship in which three or more people treat one another as equal partners and agree to keep sexual and romantic intimacy closed within the group, admitting new members...
- DEXA
DEXA (dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry) is a low-dose imaging test that measures bone mineral density and body composition by passing two X-ray beams of different energies through the body. Because...
- What Was Contributed Is Not Where It Was Contributed From
A ledger records what was given. It has no column for what the giving cost. Multi-capital accounting corrects one blindness and quietly inherits another. Counting time, knowledge, relationships, and...
- 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...
- Smart-Kickoff — Agent Buildbook
This buildbook guides your coding agent through adopting Smart-Kickoff — a launcher that treats agent startup as a load contract — into whatever stack you already run, by inventorying your...
- Smart-Kickoff Mutation Gates & Deferred Runbooks
Smart-Kickoff Mutation Gates & Deferred Runbooks are the post-launch half of the Smart-Kickoff load contract: each class of state-changing operation names the exact source an agent must read before...
- Smart-Kickoff Gates & Credential Discipline
Smart-Kickoff Gates & Credential Discipline is the enforcement layer of Smart-Kickoff: a test gate with a syntax floor and offline behavior tests that needs no network and no credential, paired with...