Memos by Brian Swichkow
- TypeSafe AI
TypeSafe AI is a San Francisco artificial intelligence company that builds System One models: models that return typed, calibrated decisions such as a choice, a score, or a probability for software...
- Jev
Jev is a System One model from TypeSafe AI — an ai-model that returns typed, probabilistic decisions instead of generated text. Released September 15, 2026 in early access, it takes a block of...
- Jev Images
Jev Images is a feature of Jev that lets requests to TypeSafe's System One API include PNG and JPEG images, so the model can answer typed questions about what a picture shows and, through Box...
- 1Password
1Password is a subscription password-manager made by AgileBits that stores passwords, passkeys, two-factor codes, and other secrets in an encrypted vault synced across a user's devices. 1Password...
- LastPass
LastPass is a password manager generates, secures, and manages your online credentials. When a website is visited where credentials are present, the browser-extension will insert them. When leading a...
- How to Protect Your Accounts During Black October
How to protect your accounts during Black October, the wave of breaches and software flaws hitting the internet in late October 2026, in about an hour spread across a few days. You don't need to...
- YubiKey
YubiKey is a hardware security key made by Yubico that proves a user's identity at login with a physical touch, providing phishing-resistant two-factor-authentication for accounts and devices. A...
- Clay Sequencer
Sequencer is a feature of Clay that runs cold outbound campaigns from the workspace's own data: dynamic lead lists from Clay Audiences, signals, or Clay's people database, AI-personalized copy,...
- Railway
Railway is a cloud platform that deploys applications, databases, and background services directly from a Git repository without requiring the user to configure the infrastructure underneath. Founded...
- Sure Personal Finance
Sure is an open-source, self-hosted personal finance app maintained by the we-promise community as a fork of the archived Maybe Finance codebase, distributed under AGPLv3. It tracks accounts,...
- Constrained Decoding Models (CDMs)
Constrained Decoding Models (CDMs) are ScaleDown's narrow ai-model family, each trained for a single task and restricted to returning only the answers that task allows. ScaleDown offers four CDMs —...
- 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...
- Kelly Hirsch
Kelly Hirsch is a product researcher at Blue Voice and holds a PhD. Her work centers on product research — studying how users work and what they need so that findings shape what a product team...
- The Century of the Self
The Century of the Self is a 2002 British documentary series by Adam Curtis on how business and government used Sigmund Freud's theories of the unconscious to manage the public in an age of mass...
- Benjamin Levy
Benjamin Levy is a choreographer and dance artist who founded the San Francisco company LEVYdance in 2002, after earning a BA in dance from the University of California, Berkeley and performing with...
- Jess Faust
Jessica (Jess) Faust is a materials scientist and composites research engineer based in Greater Boston. Faust is a Principal Research Scientist at Markforged, the maker of an industrial platform of...
- Yulia Perruzzi
Yulia Perruzzi is a finance and operations executive who previously served as COO, CFO, and CCO of Caden Capital Partners, LP, a role she started in January 2022 in Santa Monica, California. She...
- Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz is a Senior Engineering Manager at Headway, a mental health startup aiming to improve access to affordable care. With over a decade of engineering and leadership experience across...
- Michael Harding
Michael Harding is the founder and Creative Director of The Play. Contexts sex-positive
- Dark Psychology
Dark psychology is the study of the mechanisms, techniques, and behavioral patterns that underpin manipulation, coercion, and deceit in human relationships. It draws on personality and clinical...