Memos by Brian Swichkow
- BB on Storyteller Consciousness
This memo contains a conversation between myself, Brian Swichkow, and BrianBot (Local) about the Storyteller Consciousness—a conscious acknowledgment that the stories we tell create the reality that...
- Storyteller Consciousness
Storyteller Consciousness is (1) the conscious awareness that the stories we tell create the reality we see, (2) presence in the acknowledgment that we are the authors of our own stories, (3) and...
- Playboy Collage
The Playboy{bold} Collage is a framed collage built from the last banker's box of My Vintage Playboy Collection — the issues nobody claimed at the Playboy Perusing Potluck Party. It took somewhere...
- The Ultimate Retribution: Divorcing a Dildo with AI
In January, after four years of marriage, I told my wife I wanted to separate. I’d recorded episodes for the Future Wife Podcast for seven years before we were introduced at Symposium—slowly...
- Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)
Fused deposition modeling (FDM) is the additive manufacturing process that builds an object by extruding melted thermoplastic filament through a heated nozzle and depositing it in stacked layers. The...
- Ari Tuchman
Ari Tuchman is a transactional attorney and the principal and founder of Tuchman Law, APC, a boutique law firm in Los Angeles, CA. The firm, which he launched in February 2026, advises businesses,...
- Julie Hughes
Julie Hughes is an experienced product management leader specializing in digital health and fintech solutions. Currently serving as Director of Product at AllaiHealth, Inc., she spearheads the...
- Andrew Flachner
Andrew Flachner is an entrepreneur and the President and Chief Executive Officer of RealScout, a technology company focused on enhancing the residential real estate experience for agents and clients....
- Levels of Driving Automation
Levels of Driving Automation is the six-level taxonomy defined by SAE International’s J3016 standard — adopted by the U.S. Department of Transportation — that classifies how much of the driving task...
- RADAR
RADAR is a structured communication framework originally developed by the creators of the Multiamory podcast to support regular, intentional check-ins in romantic relationships. The acronym stands...
- 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...
- Playboy Perusing Potluck Party
The Playboy Perusing Potluck Party was my 39th birthday party and the distribution mechanism for My Vintage Playboy Collection — six banker's boxes of vintage Playboy magazines, laid out to be read....
- My Vintage Playboy Collection
My Vintage Playboy Collection was over 250 issues of Playboy going back to 1974 — six banker's boxes of them — won by accident with a junk bid on a MaxSold estate auction in January 2026. Roughly...
- ANCHORS
ANCHORS is a framework for sovereign relating — a living agreement held across seven domains (Anchor, Narrative, Co-creation, Health, Others, Repair, Systems) that keeps ownership of one’s needs,...
- 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...
- Keiretsu
A keiretsu is a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings. In the legal sense, it is a type of informal business group that are loosely organized alliances within...
- Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
Not to be confused with Agentic Engine Optimization, a separate discipline that shares the AEO acronym but targets AI coding agents rather than answer engines. Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), also...
- Your AI Search Tracking Measures a Third of the Journey
You are tracking which AI answers mention your brand. The number moves, and nobody can tell you whether it moved anything else — traffic, pipeline, or the searches people run next. The Challenge...
- Axis Mundi
Axis Mundi is a term from comparative religion for the world axis — the point or line at the center of a cosmology where heaven, earth, and underworld meet and passage between them becomes possible....
- YMYL
YMYL — "Your Money or Your Life" — is Google's label for content whose inaccuracy could materially harm a reader's health, financial stability, safety, or well-being, and which its quality raters...