Memos by Brian Swichkow
- Snap
Snap (NYSE: SNAP) is the American technology company behind Snapchat, the messaging app launched in 2011, and Specs, its augmented reality glasses. It earns most of its revenue from advertising, adds...
- Impossible Foods
Impossible Foods is a privately held American food company, founded in 2011, that makes plant-based substitutes for beef, pork, and chicken, sold through grocery retailers and restaurant chains. It...
- Atlas Berry
Atlas Berry is an American venture-capitalist and the founder and general partner of Mission One Capital (M1C), a Miami-based early-stage firm he launched in 2021. M1C invests in startups across the...
- The LA Grind
The LA Grind by Just Go Grind brings together over 6,000 members, acting as a curated community for founders, builders, and investors in the startup scenes of Los Angeles, CA and San Francisco, CA....
- Silverlake, CA
Silver Lake is a residential and commercial neighborhood in central Los Angeles, CA, named for the reservoir at its center and known for its modernist hillside architecture and its place in LGBT...
- Ron Conway
Ron Conway (Ronald Crawford Conway, born March 9, 1951) is an American angel-investor and the co-founder of SV Angel, a San Francisco seed-stage investment firm. Through Angel Investors LP, SV Angel,...
- Cloud Country
Cloud Country is a model for founding a new polity by building digital community first and acquiring physical territory last, proposed by Balaji Srinivasan as the most viable path to starting a new...
- Types of Capital
Types of Capital is a framework that recognizes value in many forms beyond money — counting time, knowledge, relationships, creative work, and attention as real, accountable wealth. It treats an...
- Welcome | One Place
Getting Started in One Place ... Primary Channels The \laughing, \playing, etc. are intended to be intuitive, not exact (i.e. go where you feel called in the moment). People playing evolve the play....
- Bambu Lab R1
Bambu Lab R1 is a 55-watt CO₂ laser-cutter and engraver from Bambu Lab, launched in September 2026 as the company's first standalone machine that is not a 3D printer. The R1 works a 600 × 300 mm bed...
- Self-RADAR Pre-Population
Self-RADAR Pre-Population is how I hand the chronological half of my weekly Self-RADAR to AI agents: they gather what happened in my week from my digital records and draft it, so my time goes to the...
- Adobe
Adobe is an American software company founded in 1982, known for Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Premiere Pro, and for pioneering the creative software subscription model with Creative Cloud....
- 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...
- Ludimus Community House
Ludimus Community House is a community-house run by Teagan Morrison that offers shared living for housemates and short guest stays, organized around games, crafts, and communal meals. The house's...
- Unddit
Unddit was a web tool for reading Reddit posts and comments removed by moderators or deleted by their authors, and its workflow survives at undelete.pullpush.io, which serves the same purpose today....
- Google Search Console MCP
Our Google Search Console MCP is a local, read-only MCP server that exposes Google Search Console search-performance data — queries, pages, clicks, impressions, Click-Through Rate (CTR), and position...
- Sunday Salon
Sunday Salon is a monthly Sunday gathering hosted by Brian Swichkow: a calm, unhurried afternoon for reconnecting with friends and co-regulating before the week ahead, closing with a shared family...
- Pythia
Pythia is a research tool that can predict the potential reach, influence, and conversion. It does this by creating computer models of online communities and simulate testing. The Black Box system...
- Resonance Score
Resonance Score is a single, unified metric created by CulturePulse to assess how strongly a message, creative, policy, or strategy is likely to resonate with a target audience, calculated by testing...
- Clay
Clay is an ai-powered Go-To-Market (GTM) automation platform that enables companies to combine premium data sources with intelligent workflows to accelerate growth. Founded in 2017, it integrates...