Memos by Brian Swichkow
- Why the Conversation Space and the Play Space Must Be Separately Owned
The conversation space and the play space must be owned by separate entities. The people who host parties can own the venues, the production, and the parties themselves. The commons where a community...
- RACK
RACK — Risk-Aware Consensual Kink — is a risk philosophy for kink holding that no activity is truly safe, so partners are responsible for understanding an activity's actual risks and deciding...
- Brian Swichkow
Brian Swichkow is a marketing strategist, entrepreneur, and author recognized for his diverse expertise across Growth Engineering and Go-To-Market (GTM) automation, including community-led and...
- Arianna Benitez
Arianna Benitez is an attorney in Foley & Lardner LLP's Business Law Department in Los Angeles, where she focuses on corporate and finance matters including energy transactions, mergers and...
- Amazon Affiliate Links with Claude
Amazon Affiliate Links with Claude lets you write about a product and have your AI agent produce a correct, monetized Amazon link inline, without breaking flow to go search, copy a URL, and append a...
- Amazon Affiliate Links with Claude — Agent Buildbook
This buildbook installs a skill that lets Claude Code find any product on Amazon and produce a correctly tagged affiliate link inline while writing, and it gates that skill behind the one validation...
- Claude Code Slash Command Reference
Claude Code exposes its controls as slash commands typed at the start of a message; typing / alone lists everything available in the current build. Availability varies by plan, platform, and Command...
- Resend CLI
Resend's CLI is its terminal interface with four headline features: local React Email file support, Automations management, webhook listening, and agent Skills. Available via cURL installer, npm, or...
- Destructive Book Scanning
Destructive book scanning is the digitization method that removes a book's binding so the loose pages can be fed through a sheet-fed scanner — the fastest and most accurate way to convert a printed...
- Oste
Oste is an Italian restaurant at 8142 West 3rd Street in Los Angeles, CA, built around pinsa romana — the long-fermented Roman flatbread that predates and is routinely mistaken for pizza. Pinsa takes...
- Bartender
Bartender is a mac-app from Applause Group that takes over the macOS menu bar — deciding which items are shown, which are hidden, and under what conditions each appears. It is sold three ways: a...
- ScanSnap iX2500
The ScanSnap iX2500 is a desktop sheet-fed document scanner released by Ricoh's PFU division in June 2025 and sold on Amazon from around $459.99. It scans A4 color documents double-sided at 45 pages...
- unReal Holdings
unReal Holdings is a digital real estate company operated by Georges Elias that owns and brokers a portfolio of domain names. Its holdings run to the thousands and are concentrated in generic...
- In My Own Terms
In My Own Terms is a terminology blog written by Patricia Brenes, a translator and ECQA-certified Terminology Manager who holds a master's in specialized terminology from the University of Vic in...
- Daniela Luzi Tudor
Daniela Luzi Tudor is a founder and the co-founder and CEO of We Connect Recovery — formally WEconnect Health Management — a Seattle-based behavioral health technology company whose mobile app and...
- persistence
persistence is the act of continuing in a course of action despite difficulty or opposition — and, by extension, the continuance of an effect after the cause that produced it is gone. The word...
- pride
pride is the state of being proud — either a reasonable satisfaction in oneself, one's work, or one's associations, or the inordinate self-esteem that the moral tradition names first among the deadly...
- Julie Gaynes
Julie Gaynes is a cultural historian, college instructor, and interdisciplinary artist currently based in Los Angeles, California. She is an academic presently completing her PhD in World Arts and...
- Arielle Zadok
Arielle Zadok is an intimacy coordinator, sexologist, and producer with over 18 years of experience in television, film, and advertising production. She has managed high-profile talent, overseen...
- Rachel Blair
Rachel Blair is the owner and Chief Operating Officer at ALYST Health, A Catalyst Recovery Company, located in Los Angeles, CA. She has held leadership responsibilities at ALYST Health since 2014,...