Memos by Brian Swichkow

Asana
Asana is a work management platform that the company describes as "the operating system for human-agent teams," built on what it calls the Asana Work Graph. Asana says founders Dustin Moskovitz and...
Retool
Retool enables you to build internal tools, remarkably fast. Retool is a platform for building internal software, which its homepage title frames as "Build internal software better, with AI." Users...
Data Fetcher
Data Fetcher is a no-code API connector for Airtable. It imports data from APIs and from remote JSON, CSV, XML and RSS files into Airtable bases, keeps data synced between Airtable and other...
Dripify
Dripify is a sales outreach product that Dripify describes as a "LinkedIn Automation Tool." It runs automated outreach sequences on LinkedIn and email, with built-in tools for finding business email...
An Internet Reference
An Internet Reference is a marketing-agency founded by Joe Federer. The firm describes its work as social media marketing strategy and creative services, with capabilities that range from independent...
CrealityPi
CrealityPi was a Raspberry Pi system image from Creality, customized on the basis of OctoPrint, that let users remotely control and monitor a 3D printer. It ran on a Raspberry Pi connected to the...
Pipedrive
Pipedrive is sales software that the company describes as "the easy and effective CRM for small and medium-sized companies." Pipedrive says its story "began in an Estonian garage in 2010," when its...
Twister Ultimate
Twister Ultimate is like normal Twister, but bigger; a lot bigger. Twister Ultimate is a party game from Hasbro, listed on Hasbro's product page as Twister Ultimate Game (Compatible with Alexa), item...
Nestle
Nestlé is a food and beverage company that, in its own words, "has grown from its European roots to become a truly global company." Nestlé says that "Over 150 years ago, Henri Nestlé and the Page...
Medellin, Colombia
Medellín is a city in Colombia, governed by the Alcaldía de Medellín, that the city's own figures put at 376.4 square kilometers divided into 16 comunas and 5 corregimientos. The city's history page...
Verto Analytics
Verto Analytics was a cross-device measurement company headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, according to the announcement of its acquisition by the consumer insights platform DISQO. DISQO says Verto...
Broker Generator
Broker Generator is a recruiting service for companies that hire commission-based agents. Broker Generator describes itself as "The Ultimate Agent Recruiting System," made "For Brokers By Brokers,"...
mystical
mystical means having spiritual powers or qualities that are difficult to understand or to explain, or, in a second sense the Oxford Learner's Dictionaries give, relating to mysticism. Oxford...
busy
busy means having a lot to do, and perhaps not free to do something else because you are working on something; the Oxford Learner's Dictionaries give further senses for periods of time, places, phone...
hurt
hurt means to feel pain in a part of your body, or to injure someone or cause them pain; the Cambridge Dictionary also gives the senses to cause emotional pain to someone and to cause harm or...
pain
pain names the feelings that you have in your body when you have been hurt or when you are ill, and, in a second sense the Oxford Learner's Dictionaries give, mental or emotional difficulty. Oxford...
listening
listening is the activity of giving attention to someone or something in order to hear them, and, in a specialized sense the Cambridge Dictionary records, the skill of understanding spoken language....
possession
possession is the state of having or owning something, and also something that you own or have with you at a particular time, a sense usually used in the plural. The Oxford Learner's Dictionary...
Food Inc.
Food, Inc. is a film from filmmaker Robert Kenner, presented by Magnolia Pictures, Participant and River Road Entertainment, that examines the American food industry: what people eat and how it is...
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth is a film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former Vice President Al Gore, which Participant describes as an “eye-opening and poignant portrait” of Gore and his “traveling...