Memos by Brian Swichkow

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...
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is classified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-5 as a personality disorder marked by pervasive instability in interpersonal...
Imagine The Tenth Dimension
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Best Buy
Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer, founded in 1966, that sells computers, mobile phones, appliances, home entertainment, and related services through...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a 1989 book by Stephen Covey that lays out a principle-centered, character-based approach to personal and professional effectiveness organized around seven...
iCloud
iCloud is Apple's cloud service, launched in October 2011, that stores a user's photos, files, device backups, and app data online and keeps them synchronized across their Apple devices. iCloud...
THe Audacity
The Audacity is a 2026 American dark comedy-drama television series created by Jonathan Glatzer for AMC, following a Silicon Valley tech CEO who blackmails his own therapist into abetting corporate...
Mystic Manor
Mystic Manor is a community_space in Venice, California. brandon-bauman
Tzen Lai
Tzen (Suzanne) Lai is a product strategist, entrepreneur, and embodied transformation guide whose work bridges technology, human behavior, and conscious power. She founded Tzen Consulting in 2023,...
Cargo Mailboxes
Cargo Mailboxes is a feature of Cargo that gives a workspace its own sending domains and inboxes, so plays, tools, and agents can deliver cold email through the native sendEmail action with pacing,...
Emily Schmidt Weiswoman
Emily Schmidt is a writer, blogger, digital-nomad, digital marketing consultant. Previously, she was an eCommerce Strategist at Seer Interactive while traveling abroad. Emily and I met in Chiang Mai,...
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...
Apple
Apple is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, and is widely recognized for its consumer electronics, software, and online services. Founded in 1976 by...
The Social-Earned-Owned Triad
The Social-Earned-Owned Triad is a Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) frame holding that a brand wins an AI-generated answer when its owned pages, its earned industry coverage, and social...
Mustafa Suleyman on the 'New Silicon Species' (BBC Today, 2026)
Mustafa Suleyman on the 'New Silicon Species' is a 21-minute BBC Today programme interview, broadcast 17 September 2026, in which Microsoft AI's CEO argues that training AI to entertain its own...
Protopasta Conductive PLA
Protopasta Conductive PLA is an electrically conductive composite 3d-printer-filament from Protoplant that compounds conductive carbon black into a PLA base, letting printed parts carry low-voltage...
Pace the Frontier
Pace the Frontier is the 2026 slogan, from a July statement by frontier-lab employees and Dario Amodei's September essay, for deliberately slowing the rate of AI capability gains without stopping...
Embedded Evaluators
Embedded Evaluators are independent third-party safety researchers given permanent, employee-level access inside a frontier AI lab, a governance mechanism Dario Amodei proposed in September 2026 that...
Epistemic Hall of Mirrors
Epistemic Hall of Mirrors is Mustafa Suleyman's 2026 name for the loop in which a lab writes moral uncertainty into a model's training, the model repeats it fluently, and the output is then read as...
AIs That Don't Introspect
AIs That Don't Introspect is Mustafa Suleyman's 2026 design prescription: build AI that is never trained to examine its own feelings, welfare, or moral status, because none of its benefits require...