Memos by Brian Swichkow
- co-working
co-working is the use of an office or other working environment by people who are self-employed or working for different employers, sometimes sharing equipment, ideas and knowledge. The Oxford...
- Pregnant Pause
A pregnant pause is an occasion when nobody speaks, although people are aware that there are feelings or thoughts to express. Oxford records the expression as an idiom, with the variant pregnant...
- Firestone Walker
Firestone Walker Brewing Company is a California beer company founded in 1996 by brothers-in-law Adam Firestone and David Walker. Its beers are available nationwide, and it lists locations in Paso...
- currency
currency is the system of money that a country uses, and, in a second sense, the fact that something is used or accepted by a lot of people. In the monetary sense the word can be counted and takes...
- Northwestern Mutual
Northwestern Mutual is a U.S. mutual company that provides financial planning through its advisors, along with life, disability and long-term care insurance, income annuities, brokerage and...
- Carbon Health
Carbon Health is a multi-specialty healthcare provider, founded in 2015, that offers urgent care, primary care and mental health services in person and virtually. It is built on its own electronic...
- Eventbrite
Eventbrite is a global self-service ticketing platform for live experiences that lets anyone create, share, find and attend events, from music festivals, marathons, conferences and fundraisers to...
- Magic Leap
Magic Leap is an augmented reality company that develops waveguides, display systems and AR glasses prototypes for technology partners. It describes itself as an AR ecosystems partner that supplies...
- Shoulder Surfing
Shoulder surfing is the practice of watching a person who is getting money from a machine, filling out a form, or doing something similar, in order to find out their personal information. The Oxford...
- beauty
beauty is the quality of giving pleasure to the senses or to the mind, and, by extension, a person or thing that is beautiful, an excellent example of its type, or an attractive feature. In its...
- exchange
exchange is an act of giving something to someone, or doing something for them, and receiving something in return; to exchange is to give something while receiving the same type of thing back. From...
- sustainable
sustainable describes the use of natural products and energy in a way that does not harm the environment, and, more generally, anything that can continue or be continued for a long time. The...
- Creative Artists Agency
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is a talent agency founded in 1975. It represents thousands of actors, directors, writers, producers, musical artists, comedians, authors, athletes, coaches,...
- Constitutional AI
Constitutional AI (CAI) is a methodology developed by Anthropic for training AI systems to be helpful, harmless, and honest — by giving the model explicit values set out in a written set of...
- Anthropic
Anthropic is an American Artificial Intelligence safety and research company founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, best known as the maker of the Claude family of models. It is led by...
- OpenClaw
OpenClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant platform that runs as a local agent on a user's own hardware, executing tasks autonomously across messaging channels and the local system. Originally...
- Human-AI Augmentation
Human-AI augmentation is the practice of designing systems where a human and an Artificial Intelligence operate as a unified intelligence — not as tool and user, but as collaborators with distinct...
- How I Replaced My Morning News Routine with AI
How I replaced my morning news routine with AI is the origin story of BrianBot Broadcast — a daily AI-generated podcast that synthesizes industry news through a curated worldview, published...
- Building with Claude Code as a Non-Engineer
Building with Claude Code as a non-engineer is the practice of using Claude Code's agentic capabilities to design, build, and ship production software without a traditional engineering background....
- Hermes Glossary
The Hermes Glossary is a collection of terms used in Hermes Agent, Nous Research's open-source self-improving autonomous agent — spanning its runtime architecture, learning loop, skills system,...