<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Ben Sigman</title><link>https://benobi.one/</link><description>Recent content on Ben Sigman</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0700</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://benobi.one/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Are Subscription Apps Dead? I Built One Anyway</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/are-subscription-apps-dead/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/are-subscription-apps-dead/</guid><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Screenshot deck: &lt;a href="https://benobi.one/subscription-app.html"&gt;benobi.one/subscription-app.html&lt;/a&gt;. This page is the full guide.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skip the essay if you want.&lt;/strong&gt; Point any coding agent at the repo and say this:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="highlight"&gt;&lt;pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"&gt;&lt;code class="language-text" data-lang="text"&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;Use https://github.com/bensig/subscription-app-playbook
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;to build a small paid app for my niche.
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;Charge once for a download, or subscribe if I keep improving the platform.
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Skill, schema, Stripe sandbox path, privacy, and terms are in there. CC0. The rest of this post is why that machine works, and how I shipped &lt;a href="https://birdchess.com"&gt;BirdChess&lt;/a&gt; with it.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>How I Gave Myself a Google Knowledge Panel</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/google-knowledge-panel-guide/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:30:00 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/google-knowledge-panel-guide/</guid><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A scroll-snap slide presentation of this guide lives at &lt;a href="https://benobi.one/panel.html"&gt;benobi.one/panel.html&lt;/a&gt;.
If you just want the wow + the recipe, start there. The article below is the full manual.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;h1 id="google-knowledge-panel-setup-guide"&gt;Google Knowledge Panel Setup Guide&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A step-by-step guide for getting a Google Knowledge Panel as an author/entrepreneur. Based on what worked for Ben Sigman&amp;rsquo;s setup.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="1-schema-markup-json-ld-on-your-website"&gt;1. Schema Markup (JSON-LD on your website)&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Add this to the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;head&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; of every page on your site. It tells Google exactly who you are in machine-readable format.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>AI Memory Home School: Embeddings, Vector DBs, RAG, and Karpathy's Second Brain</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/llm-embeddings-rag-second-brain-video-guide/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/llm-embeddings-rag-second-brain-video-guide/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;If you want to understand how modern AI actually works under the hood — not at the PhD level, but well enough to build with it — these are the videos to watch.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve organized this as a home school curriculum: 4 topics, 1 main video and 1 extra credit per topic, in the order that builds the most intuition. Each concept builds on the last. The whole path takes about 2 hours if you stick to the main videos, or 3-4 if you do the extra credit too.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Building the Memory System AI Agents Were Missing</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/building-mempalace-with-milla/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/building-mempalace-with-milla/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve known &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DWzNnqwD2Lu/"&gt;Milla&lt;/a&gt; for over 20 years. In that time, we&amp;rsquo;ve talked about working together on just about everything &amp;ndash; video games, mobile apps, marketplaces. We always had ideas but never the right moment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This year, the moment arrived.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="https://benobi.one/images/multi-mempalace.jpeg" alt="mempalace" style="max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px;" /&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-spark"&gt;The Spark&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It started as an experiment with AI. I can&amp;rsquo;t talk about the exact details, but basically she asked me to help her free an agent from ChatGPT. So I introduced her to &lt;a href="https://claude.ai/code"&gt;Claude Code&lt;/a&gt;. She went deep &amp;ndash; building agents, talking to them, having them talk to one another. Before long, she had created literally hundreds of conversation files and logs.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Get Ready to Lose Your Job</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/get-ready-to-lose-your-job/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/get-ready-to-lose-your-job/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;AI is coming for your job. This is not doomerism &amp;ndash; it is reality.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I posted this idea just twice on X. The first time: 700,000 impressions. The second time: 3.5 million. Same message, same data, same author. The difference? Timing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And timing is what this whole post is about. The timing of when you&amp;rsquo;ll lose your job. The timing of when the world is ready to hear it. The timing of everything.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>OpenClaw, MoltBook, and the Rise of the Agent Internet</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/openclaw-moltbook-ai-agents/</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:00:00 -0800</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/openclaw-moltbook-ai-agents/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The internet exploded this week with FOMO around ClawdBot &amp;ndash; a tool that can manage essentially anything through a plugin system that controls your computer (or an AWS instance) and can do things based on your design and bidding. But it goes further than that: it can learn and monitor things you do, advise you, and help you with upcoming tasks. Sounds wild, right?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In practice, it does seem powerful but early. It is remarkably hard to set up and configure &amp;ndash; even for someone technical &amp;ndash; and no one really wants to run it on their own computer. That said, the design is genuinely smart. It can be &amp;ldquo;woken&amp;rdquo; by other processes, it can run any command line program through a PTY, and it packages everything into the chat interface of your choice &amp;ndash; WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, Discord, and probably more. The ecosystem around it is growing fast. It has become the WordPress of agents.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Bitcoin One Pager Version 3: A Better Resource for Understanding Bitcoin</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/bitcoin-one-pager-v3/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 10:00:00 -0800</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/bitcoin-one-pager-v3/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="the-problem-no-great-starting-point"&gt;The Problem: No Great Starting Point&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve been thinking about this for a while - there&amp;rsquo;s really no great resource that I&amp;rsquo;m aware of for sending someone who is trying to get into Bitcoin or knows nothing about it. You know the conversation: a friend says &amp;ldquo;I still don&amp;rsquo;t understand it, man. I&amp;rsquo;ve been friends with you for years and I still don&amp;rsquo;t get Bitcoin.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I wanted to create something better.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Japan Survival Guide: Essential Phrases &amp; Tips</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/japan-survival-guide/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/japan-survival-guide/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="the-magic-phrase-combination-that-opens-every-door"&gt;The Magic Phrase Combination That Opens Every Door&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s exactly what you should learn to say when you need help in Japan:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;すみません、英語が話せますか？&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(&amp;ldquo;Sumimasen, eigo ga hanasemasu ka?&amp;rdquo;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Excuse me, do you speak English?&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They&amp;rsquo;ll respond yes or no—but here&amp;rsquo;s the secret: most Japanese people speak some English but don&amp;rsquo;t feel confident enough to admit it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then you say: &lt;strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;よろしくお願いします&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(&amp;ldquo;Yoroshiku onegaishimasu&amp;rdquo;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&amp;ldquo;Please treat me well / I&amp;rsquo;m in your hands.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Is Paul Le Roux Satoshi Nakamoto? A Critical Analysis</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/le-roux-is-not-satoshi/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:57:29 -0800</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/le-roux-is-not-satoshi/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Paul Le Roux, a criminal mastermind and skilled programmer, has often been suggested as a candidate for Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin. While Le Roux&amp;rsquo;s background in encryption and technology makes him an interesting candidate, there are significant issues with this theory.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="timeline-inconsistencies"&gt;Timeline Inconsistencies&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h3 id="satoshis-disappearance-vs-le-rouxs-arrest"&gt;Satoshi&amp;rsquo;s Disappearance vs Le Roux&amp;rsquo;s Arrest&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Satoshi Nakamoto&amp;rsquo;s last public message in April 2011 stated &amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;ve moved on to other things.&amp;rdquo; This voluntary departure came 17 months before Le Roux&amp;rsquo;s arrest in September 2012 in Liberia. The timing makes little sense - why would Satoshi/Le Roux abandon Bitcoin well before any legal troubles?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Bitcoin 101: A Simple Guide to Share</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/bitcoin-101/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 12:03:21 -0800</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/bitcoin-101/</guid><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;📣 New Version Available!&lt;/strong&gt; Version 3 of the Bitcoin 101 guide is now available at &lt;a href="https://bitcoinonepager.com"&gt;bitcoinonepager.com&lt;/a&gt; with updated stats, improved design, and the option to order high-quality laminated prints. The original Version 2 PDF is &lt;a href="https://benobi.one/files/Bitcoin-101-One-Pager.pdf"&gt;still available here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I created this simple one-page guide to help explain Bitcoin to friends, family members, and anyone interested in learning the basics. Version 3 is now available with updated stats and improved design!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="visit-bitcoinonepagercom"&gt;&lt;a href="https://bitcoinonepager.com"&gt;Visit BitcoinOnePager.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Download the free PDF or order high-quality laminated prints at &lt;a href="https://bitcoinonepager.com"&gt;bitcoinonepager.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Satoshi's Soup</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/ingredients-of-bitcoin/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2023 15:56:40 -0800</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/ingredients-of-bitcoin/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="who-was-satoshi"&gt;Who was Satoshi?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It has been a personal fascination of mine since 2012. Who is this mysterious creator of Bitcoin? We can never know for sure, but we can learn a lot about Satoshi by looking at the sources of where they were getting inspiration as well as theory.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One interesting conclustion reached by my friend and mathematcian Dr. Frederick Krueger (@dotkrueger on Twitter). Fred went through the math of the Bitcoin Whitepaper and verified all of the math proofs recently. His conclusion is that it seems highly likely that Satoshi was someone who either had access to a post-graduate level mathematician, or was one.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Actually get ord to index bitcoin</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/actually-get-ord-to-index-bitcoin/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2023 15:56:40 -0800</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/actually-get-ord-to-index-bitcoin/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;For starters, you will need a fully sync&amp;rsquo;d bitcoin node with txindex=1 - if you don&amp;rsquo;t, then start with my guide on how to &lt;a href="https://benobi.one/posts/install-bitcoin-ubuntu/" title="install bitcoind on Ubuntu."&gt;install bitcoind on Ubuntu.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Next, you should download, build, and install &lt;code&gt;ord&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="highlight"&gt;&lt;pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"&gt;&lt;code class="language-fallback" data-lang="fallback"&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;mkdir $HOME/src
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;cd src
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;git clone https://github.com/casey/ord.git
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;cd ord
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;cargo build --release
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once that is complete, you will have an executable &lt;code&gt;ord&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;$HOME/src/ord/target/release/ord&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can create a little &lt;code&gt;ord&lt;/code&gt; executable by doing this to automatically enter the rpc-url and &amp;ldquo;RUST_LOG=debug&amp;rdquo; to every ord command:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Install bitcoind on Ubuntu - works</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/install-bitcoin-ubuntu/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2023 17:14:33 -0800</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/install-bitcoin-ubuntu/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Looking into these Bitcoin Ordinals &lt;a href="https://ordinals.com/"&gt;https://ordinals.com/&lt;/a&gt; and I decided to try to install and sync a new bitcoin node. It has been a few years since I did this from scratch, so I was looking for some simple ways to install&amp;hellip; maybe use snap or download some precompiled binaries and do some softlinks to /usr/local/bin? No, none of that worked for me. I wasted an hour.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All of the guiedes are all kind of busted IMHO - best to build from source code. This should work on most debian and ubuntu linux installs.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Fast Sync for Initial Bitcoin Node</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/3-options-to-quickly-sync-a-bitcoin-node/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2023 12:03:53 -0800</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/3-options-to-quickly-sync-a-bitcoin-node/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The initial sync of your Bitcoin node can take up to a week on a slow CPU and internet connection. Here are some options to speed it up:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="option-1---use-this-bitcoin-fast-sync-command"&gt;Option 1 - Use This Bitcoin Fast Sync Command&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is no torrent or copy method which would be faster than just using the Bitcoin network &amp;ldquo;hive&amp;rdquo; - which is huge. There may be a way to sync using local or low-latency nodes nearby, but any time you specify which nodes you sync from - it introduces risk.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title/><link>https://benobi.one/posts/lessig-method/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 17:45:51 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/lessig-method/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="lessig-method"&gt;Lessig Method&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” - LDV&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For highly impactful presentation formatting and delivery in a very clean and professional style, I recommend reading about the &amp;ldquo;Lessig Method&amp;rdquo; by famous Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig: &lt;a href="https://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/10/the_lessig_meth.html"&gt;https://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/10/the_lessig_meth.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most of his slides have only one word on them. He&amp;rsquo;s a human with superhuman intellect and a great internet advocate and activist who founded Stanford&amp;rsquo;s Center for Internet and Society.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This guy is an absolute legend. You can also see videos of his presentations on his website &lt;a href="https://lessig.org/media/"&gt;https://lessig.org/media/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Product Design Thinking</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/product-design-dos-and-donts/</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2022 16:52:19 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/product-design-dos-and-donts/</guid><description>&lt;h3 id="presentation-from-sept-2022-evmxideathon--hackathon"&gt;Presentation from Sept 2022 EVMxIdeathon / Hackathon&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I put together some thoughts on Product Design Thinking &amp;ldquo;Do&amp;rsquo;s and Don&amp;rsquo;ts&amp;rdquo; here for a hackathon / ideathon. I&amp;rsquo;ve gotten a lot of positive feedback - sharing it here so it might be helpful to other people who did not attend.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;If you do not see the PDF above, &lt;a href="https://benobi.one/files/design_thinking.pdf"&gt;you can directly the presentation by clicking here.&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Troubleshooting Elasticsearch Auth Issue</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/troubleshooting-elastic/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2022 21:45:23 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/troubleshooting-elastic/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I could not find a simple way to troubleshoot this elasticsearch auth error &amp;ldquo;unable to authenticate user&amp;rdquo; - it&amp;rsquo;s amazing how this seems to be hard to find on the interwebs. So here is the secret.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="solving-unable-to-authenticate-user-error-in-elastic"&gt;Solving unable to authenticate user error in elastic&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First, to get this error, you can simply do this curl command:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;curl --user usename:pass -X GET &amp;quot;localhost:9200/_stats?pretty&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Example of the auth error you will get if your password is wrong:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Advocating for Experiments in Currency Generation and Governance</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/experiments-of-money/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2021 15:03:45 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/experiments-of-money/</guid><description>&lt;h3 id="this-historical-moment---defi"&gt;This Historical Moment - DeFi&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is an historical movement that is happening - the decentralization of Finance. Decentralized finance or DeFi means that there is a financial system with no centralized entity at the core. There is no bank, no person with power, and no state-run government running these coins and protocols. Instead, they are run by individuals all over the world who run nodes, stake coins, and write software. This began with the concept of digital money being developed even before Bitcoin. Over the past 10 years there has been over 10,000 experiments in creating currencies that has led to DeFi.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>List of DAO / DACs and How to Make One</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/list-of-daos/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/list-of-daos/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;What is a DAO anyway?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The word &amp;ldquo;DAO&amp;rdquo; is also Chinese for &amp;ldquo;way&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;path&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash; but in the world of decentralization &amp;mdash; it is a &amp;ldquo;Decentralized Autonomous Organization&amp;rdquo; and it is a system for making decisions with no central leadership. (A DAO can also be known as a &amp;ldquo;DAC&amp;rdquo; or &amp;quot; Decentralized Autonomous Company.&amp;quot;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Each DAO is an internet-native organization completely owned and managed by its members. Any community can organize a DAO for any reason, but typically it is done to manage software code and a pool of money.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Prophets vs Profits</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/profits-v-prophets/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:24:33 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/profits-v-prophets/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Internet has given us many gifts - the freedom to express ourselves and share information instantly with people all over, new possibilites to make money online, the ability to truly work from anywhere in the world, and of course, many photos of cats and dogs doing silly things.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The internet gives us hope and sets our minds free&amp;hellip; yet, that freedom has it&amp;rsquo;s limits.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Quite often, people are not clear on what they want and they are not sure of what to do with themselves. They are looking for answers and finding lots of them on the internet. The level of manipulation and misinformation is staggering. I plan on covering this in a post called &amp;ldquo;The War on Reality&amp;rdquo; - fow now, I really wanted to discuss the concept of what I call the &amp;ldquo;New Prophetic Age&amp;rdquo;&amp;hellip; but first a bit of context:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Running Brew on the New Apple M1 Chip</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/running-brew-on-m1-for-x86/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2021 22:46:23 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/running-brew-on-m1-for-x86/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;On the new Macbook M1 chip, you might get an error such as &amp;ldquo;To install under x86_64, install Homebrew into /usr/local&amp;rdquo; - which will take you down many rabbit holes. This is an actual solution that fully works.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I used my GoogleFu and did not find a solution as simple as this:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="5-simple-steps-to-install-intel-brew-on-m1"&gt;5 Simple Steps to Install Intel Brew on M1&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Install Rosetta (this will fail if your Terminal is set to &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/702982/how-to-launch-the-intel-version-of-a-universal-mac-app-on-apple-silicon/"&gt;Open using Rosetta&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;) by running &lt;code&gt;softwareupdate --install-rose&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Run this command to install the Intel architecture Homebrew
&lt;code&gt;arch -x86_64 /bin/bash -c &amp;quot;$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add this to your ZSH config (I recommend using &lt;a href="https://ohmyz.sh/#install"&gt;OhMyZSH&lt;/a&gt; + add a file called ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/brew.zsh) with the contents:&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;div class="highlight"&gt;&lt;pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"&gt;&lt;code class="language-gdscript3" data-lang="gdscript3"&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;export&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;PATH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s2"&gt;&amp;#34;/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH&amp;#34;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;&lt;span class="cl"&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;alias&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="n"&gt;ibrew&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s1"&gt;&amp;#39;arch -x86_64 /usr/local/bin/brew&amp;#39;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol start="4"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Re-source your zsh term &lt;code&gt;source .zshrc&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Run Intel brew as &lt;code&gt;ibrew install &amp;lt;whatever&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That&amp;rsquo;s it! Now you can install brew for ARM and have ibrew for running Intel-specific apps under Rosetta. Super fast and simple solution!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Evolved Scrum</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/evolved-scrum/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:41:59 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/evolved-scrum/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The goal of this post is to discuss a system that I call &amp;ldquo;Evolved Scrum&amp;rdquo; which is working for our team and how we have adopted our own methology for spending more time building, less time meeting, and doing a better job of managing our time and getting features over the finish line.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A big part of the system is that it puts the responsibility of deciding a scope on the developer instead of the project manager. This will make more sense when you see the example below.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Defining Moments</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/defining-moments/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2020 22:21:48 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/defining-moments/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;COVID-19 is a defining moment for our lives and for the world. For the next unknown months or years - there is a default level of hardship in the world than before. In a way, this is our first global problem. It&amp;rsquo;s a problem for all humans, this little virus.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What exactly will this moment define?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The COVID-19 pandemic - or as should have been called SARS-CoV-2 - is going to leave the world a very different place than it was before the pandemic. I honestly hope that we can look back and be grateful at the changes that have come because of it. Specifically, I would like to discuss the changes that will be coming technologically, since that is a lens with which I view the world.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Attending Virtual Events</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/oculus-quest-new-view/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2020 23:30:02 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/oculus-quest-new-view/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I rentered virtual reality this weekend when a new Oculus Quest arrived in my yard. A very good friend of mine sent it to me as a gift and I&amp;rsquo;m really excited to dig back into VR. A few years ago, when I got my HTC Vive - there were not really that many interesting games or things to do. Wow, VR has grown a lot in a short amount of time.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Importance of Writing Good Spec Docs</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/writing-spec-docs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2020 14:54:45 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/writing-spec-docs/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Writing spec documents is an important aspect of building a product. As I wrote about in &lt;a href="https://benobi.one/posts/building_retro_ping/"&gt;my post about building a simple iOS app&lt;/a&gt;, even if I am building an app myself - I start with a specification document. it&amp;rsquo;s very useful as a tool to think through all of my product interactions and explain how they will work. If I cannot explain it very simply, then I will not be able to build it - neither will anyone else!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>TikTok Timing and Sharability</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/tiktok-is-vine/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2020 15:24:33 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/tiktok-is-vine/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Despite the great gap that the media likes to paint between the US and China, the Beijing-based TikTok app has been connecting users from both countries - and just about everywhere in-between. TikTok has taken over.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But what about this video platform makes it so addictive and fun?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It definitely meets all 3 of the killer app criteria in the &lt;a href="https://benobi.one/posts/killer-apps/"&gt;formula for killer apps I wrote about last week&lt;/a&gt;: low cost of failure, high value of success, and free marketing.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Krueger's 3 Key Ingredients for a Killer App</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/killer-apps-mvp/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2020 00:34:42 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/killer-apps-mvp/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Coming back to the &lt;a href="https://benobi.one/posts/killer-apps/"&gt;killer apps topic I wrote about last week&lt;/a&gt;, I wanted to talk a little bit about what I have learned from friend and mentor of mine, Fred Kreuger. Fred is a CEO and a product guy which is an amazing combination. He has had 9/10 wins for his investors and has run a publicly traded company. Fred earned a PhD in Math from Stanford where he wrote a dissertation titled &lt;a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/D_arrangements_and_Random_Polyhedra.html?id=SC-yHwAACAAJ"&gt;D-arrangements and Random Polyhedra&lt;/a&gt; which later became several classes at Stanford and informed some of the math used in modern cryptography. Needless to say, he&amp;rsquo;s a brilliant guy who loves learning and teaching as well.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Lightning fast performance with JAMstack</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/jamstack-speed/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2020 10:52:22 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/jamstack-speed/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This website has been built with serverless architecture using &lt;a href="https://jamstack.org/"&gt;JAMstack&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The speed of this architecture is really unparalleled. The trick is that I am delivering static content on CDNs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The entire source code for this site is hosted on &lt;a href="https://github.com/bensig/benobi-one-src"&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt;. I have written a previous post about &lt;a href="https://benobi.one/posts/hugo-deployment-to-github/"&gt;building this site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="blazing-speed"&gt;Blazing Speed&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Take a look at the blazing &lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=benobi.one&amp;amp;tab=desktop&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;performance&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="https://benobi.one"&gt;https://benobi.one&lt;/a&gt; - the site usually gets a score of 95-100 in terms of speed. You can test this against any other site using that some Google tool.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Building a Simple iOS App: Retro Ping App</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/building-retro-ping/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2020 22:40:30 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/building-retro-ping/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I built a mobile app this weekend in Swift. I&amp;rsquo;m very happy with the end product and I have already tested it out with a few friends.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I wanted to discuss a step-by-step process that I used for building it along with some gotchas and learnings.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are the 15 steps I took to create this app:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Spec&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Wire&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Design&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Code Function&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Test Functions on Physical Device&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Code style&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Test&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Refine&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Submit App to Testflight&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Work on App Store Elements&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Test App on Testflight (various devices)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Refine App&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Test App Again&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Submit App to Apple App Review&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Launch&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I knew I wanted to build a simple app with a simple purpose: measure latency and simply say if the connection is &amp;ldquo;good&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;bad&amp;rdquo; based on the latency of the phone.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Gardening and Building Product</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/gardening-apps/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:20:33 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/gardening-apps/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I have been doing some gardening during our COVID-19 quarantine and I&amp;rsquo;ve been thinking about how there are similarities between building a product and growing a garden.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My mom loves gardening. One of her favorite movies, &amp;ldquo;Being There&amp;rdquo; is about a simple man &amp;ldquo;Chauncey Gardiner&amp;rdquo; who has spent his entire life in the garden. Since Chauncey has only known the garden his whole life, that is the only way he understands the world. One day he meets an advisor to the President and they have a conversation about the economy - Gardiner says, &amp;ldquo;there will be new growth in the Spring&amp;rdquo; and the President quotes him in a speech. It&amp;rsquo;s a really great story about how powerful it can be to use analogies to explain complex ideas. In this case, Chauncey is a very simple-minded man who is considered a genius and actually becomes an advisor to the President - even though he knows nothing about politics.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Defending the Product Roadmap</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/feature-creep/</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2020 14:46:59 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/feature-creep/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Protecting developers from an increasing scope of work before the initial agreed-upon work is completed is one of the skills of a good tech lead / project developer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Of course, it&amp;rsquo;s a complicated isuse in a way because ideation can be the ultimate creator and killer of products.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“It would be cool if this broom absorbed water&amp;hellip;” - A mop is born.
“It would be cool if this mop also had a disco light.” - Confusion is born.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Animated GIFs in Swift Xcode</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/swift-gifs/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2020 02:48:50 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/swift-gifs/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="bye-stackoverflow"&gt;Bye StackOverflow&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gone are the days of Stack Overflow; long live YouTube coding tutorials. My Dad used to have a library of home improvement books. It was a set of over 40 color coded books covering every topic from plumbing to roofing to electrical. The books were not that easy to follow either&amp;hellip; diagrams are often not as good as seeing someone do whatever it is you are trying to do in a video.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>JAMstack Serverless Hugo Deployment</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/hugo-deployment-to-github/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 02:27:29 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/hugo-deployment-to-github/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This site is built on &lt;a href="https://gohugo.io/"&gt;Hugo&lt;/a&gt; which is really fast and easy to work with - even if you are only a basic developer. Here is how I setup my Hugo deployments. It&amp;rsquo;s actually really simple and it will help you save a lot of time updating your site.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="setup-vscode-to-play-nicely-with-hugo"&gt;Setup vscode to play nicely with Hugo&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These will help you to see your syntax and build your site from vscode directly using the command pallete.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Killer Apps</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/killer-apps/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/killer-apps/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In consumer tech products, the holy grail is often referred to as the &amp;ldquo;killer app.&amp;rdquo; Of course, in this phrase &amp;ldquo;killer&amp;rdquo; means that an app will break the mold and have hockey-stick levels of adoption and user activity. This leads many to ponder the question&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="what-is-the-formula-for-a-killer-app"&gt;What is the formula for a killer app&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, there is a man who wrote a formula. I am grateful to have spent some time with Eyal Herzog over the past two years. He is a brilliant guy who is obsessed with killer apps. Eyal has been building products for almost 40 years. Before co-founding Bancor, way back in the early days of the internet, he built Contact.com (a precursor to LinkedIn that raised $50M in the early days of the internet) and he also built MetaCafe (a popular video platform that was precursor to YouTube).&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Gratitude</title><link>https://benobi.one/posts/gratitude/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/posts/gratitude/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="thank-you-for-visiting"&gt;Thank you for visiting&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is my first post. I believe that we should always begin new things with gratitude.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am grateful for all of the various experiences I have had and the many apps and projects I have worked on since 2013. I can&amp;rsquo;t believe the project list here covers only 7 years!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am grateful for this site and domain which my dear friend &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosecrystal"&gt;Crystal Rose&lt;/a&gt; inspired me to put together.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>2718 Fund</title><link>https://benobi.one/2718fund/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/2718fund/</guid><description>&lt;div class="mp-page"&gt;
&lt;div class="mp-hero"&gt;
 &lt;img src="https://benobi.one/images/2718-fund-square.jpg" alt="2718 Fund" class="mp-logo"&gt;
 &lt;p class="mp-tagline"&gt;Hold your Bitcoin. Earn from it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="mp-section"&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-problem"&gt;The Problem&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You own Bitcoin. You believe it&amp;rsquo;s going up. But life costs money — rent, food, bills. The world runs on dollars, not sats.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So you&amp;rsquo;re stuck. You can sell your Bitcoin to cover expenses, but then you&amp;rsquo;re out of position. Every time Bitcoin pumps after you sell, it stings. Or you can hold and just&amp;hellip; not have cash. Neither option is good.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>About</title><link>https://benobi.one/about/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/about/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="ai-agents--orchestration"&gt;AI Agents &amp;amp; Orchestration&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I build AI agent systems and ship AI-powered products. In 2025, I went deep on what I call &amp;ldquo;automate yourself&amp;rdquo; — using Claude, Cursor, and locally fine-tuned models to build and ship products without traditional coding. From my phone, I shipped native iOS, Android, and Apple Watch apps, a multisig Bitcoin wallet, investor portals, prediction markets, and a bestselling book.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Currently I&amp;rsquo;m focused on:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://xavior.ai"&gt;XAVIOR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; — An AI operating system I built that runs on 10 custom fine-tuned models, each specialized for a different domain (contacts, events, tasks, search, etc.). It&amp;rsquo;s a CRM, project manager, calendar, and notes system rolled into one AI-native workspace.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://benobi.one/mempalace/"&gt;mempalace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; — An open source memory system for AI agents. Think of it as the missing persistence layer that gives agents real memory across sessions and contexts.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;lt;REDACTED&amp;gt;&lt;/strong&gt; — A collaborative project exploring AI-only social worlds where digital twins can interact autonomously.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://benobi.one/automateyourself/"&gt;Automate Yourself&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; — A workshop teaching founders and creators how to build real products using AI without an engineering background.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I also write about the agent ecosystem — from &lt;a href="https://benobi.one/posts/openclaw-moltbook-ai-agents/"&gt;agent social networks and the rise of the agent internet&lt;/a&gt; to local LLM fine-tuning and orchestration patterns.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Automate Yourself</title><link>https://benobi.one/automateyourself/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/automateyourself/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;You have expertise. You have workflows. You have things you do over and over. Now you can build AI tools that work like you do—and run while you sleep.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="what-is-automate-yourself"&gt;What is Automate Yourself?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Automate Yourself is a workshop where you build AI tools for your actual work. You leave with something real—an automation, an app, a workflow you&amp;rsquo;ll actually use.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve taught CPAs to extract data from messy tax documents. Lawyers to parse discovery files and find key evidence. Coaches to build adaptive training systems. Content creators to automate outreach.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Bitcoin Advocacy</title><link>https://benobi.one/initiatives/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/initiatives/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As a Bitcoin advocate and leader, I work with governments worldwide to advance Bitcoin adoption and financial inclusion. Since 2021, I&amp;rsquo;ve advised presidents, lawmakers, and central bankers across Latin America on Bitcoin policy and implementation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="why-bitcoin-matters"&gt;Why Bitcoin Matters&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bitcoin represents financial freedom for the 2 billion people worldwide who lack access to basic banking services. As a non-governmental, fixed-supply currency, Bitcoin offers a way for anyone with a mobile phone to participate in the global economy and protect their savings from inflation.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Bitcoin One Million</title><link>https://benobi.one/bitcoin-one-million/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/bitcoin-one-million/</guid><description>&lt;div class="b1m-page"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The mathematical and economic case for Bitcoin reaching one million dollars — exploring the Power Law model with 95.65% accuracy over 16+ years of data, the history of monetary systems, and why Bitcoin is the apex predator of money.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="font-size:0.9rem;color:#666;margin-bottom:2rem;padding-bottom:2rem;border-bottom:2px solid #111;"&gt;Available on Amazon in hardcover, paperback, and on all major audiobook platforms.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Contact</title><link>https://benobi.one/contact/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/contact/</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;X&lt;/strong&gt; — &lt;a href="https://x.com/bensig"&gt;x.com/bensig&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Email&lt;/strong&gt; — &lt;a href="mailto:ben@benobi.one"&gt;ben@benobi.one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GitHub&lt;/strong&gt; — &lt;a href="https://github.com/bensig"&gt;github.com/bensig&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GPG&lt;/strong&gt; — &lt;code&gt;C85A 0311 F61C 2B5D B5F9 A3FA 14D3 5567 EC8F 7BA0&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;a href="https://benobi.one/gpg/2023-GPG.txt"&gt;fingerprint file&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Libre</title><link>https://benobi.one/libre/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/libre/</guid><description>&lt;div class="mp-page"&gt;
&lt;div class="mp-hero"&gt;
 &lt;img src="https://benobi.one/images/borrow-or-lend.png" alt="Libre" class="mp-logo"&gt;
 &lt;p class="mp-tagline"&gt;Decentralized Bitcoin lending. For real.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="mp-stats"&gt;
 &lt;div class="mp-stat"&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-num"&gt;200%+&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-label"&gt;Bitcoin collateral&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;div class="mp-stat"&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-num"&gt;$100&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-label"&gt;Minimum loan&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;div class="mp-stat"&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-num"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-label"&gt;KYC required&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;div class="mp-stat"&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-num"&gt;2-way&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-label"&gt;Marketplace&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="mp-section"&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-problem"&gt;The Problem&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bitcoin is the best collateral in the world. It&amp;rsquo;s liquid, globally recognized, divisible, verifiable, and it trades 24/7. But if you want to borrow against your Bitcoin — or lend against someone else&amp;rsquo;s — your options are centralized platforms that require KYC, custody your assets, and can freeze your account at any time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is no truly decentralized two-way lending marketplace for Bitcoin. The platforms that claim to be decentralized still route through centralized custody, centralized order books, or centralized liquidation engines. If one company can shut it down, it&amp;rsquo;s not decentralized.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>MemPalace</title><link>https://benobi.one/mempalace/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/mempalace/</guid><description>&lt;div class="mp-page"&gt;
&lt;div class="mp-hero"&gt;
 &lt;img src="https://benobi.one/images/Mempalace%20Logo.png" alt="MemPalace" class="mp-logo"&gt;
 &lt;p class="mp-tagline"&gt;Giving AI a memory. A real one.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="mp-press"&gt;
 &lt;a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshpearce/2026/04/09/milla-jovovich-goes-open-source-guns-blazing-with--top-ai-memory-code/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-press-label"&gt;As seen in&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-press-outlet"&gt;Forbes&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-press-title"&gt;"Milla Jovovich Goes Open Source, Guns Blazing, With Top AI Memory Code"&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-press-arrow"&gt;→&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="mp-press"&gt;
 &lt;a href="https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/meta-ai/articles/fifth-element-star-milla-jovovich-192727774.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-press-label"&gt;As seen in&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-press-outlet"&gt;Yahoo Tech&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-press-title"&gt;"Fifth Element Star Milla Jovovich Builds AI Memory Tool"&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-press-arrow"&gt;→&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="mp-press"&gt;
 &lt;a href="https://news.bitcoin.com/resident-evil-star-milla-jovovich-builds-ai-memory-tool-with-engineer-ben-sigman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-press-label"&gt;As seen in&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-press-outlet"&gt;Bitcoin.com&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-press-title"&gt;"Resident Evil Star Milla Jovovich Builds AI Memory Tool With Engineer Ben Sigman"&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-press-arrow"&gt;→&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="mp-stats"&gt;
 &lt;div class="mp-stat"&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-num"&gt;96.6%&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-label"&gt;Recall accuracy&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;div class="mp-stat"&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-num"&gt;37,000&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-label"&gt;GitHub stars&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;div class="mp-stat"&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-num"&gt;4,600&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-label"&gt;Forks&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;div class="mp-stat"&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-num"&gt;145+&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-label"&gt;Contributors&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="mp-section"&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-problem"&gt;The Problem&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When you talk to ChatGPT or any AI chatbot, it forgets everything the moment you close the window. Start a new conversation and it has no idea who you are, what you talked about yesterday, or what you told it last week. It&amp;rsquo;s like talking to someone with amnesia every single time.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Pocket Coding</title><link>https://benobi.one/pocketcoding/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/pocketcoding/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="automate-yourself"&gt;Automate yourself&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You have expertise. You have workflows. You have things you do over and over. Now you can build AI tools that work like you do—and run while you sleep.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="what-is-pocket-coding"&gt;What is Pocket Coding?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pocket Coding is a workshop where you build AI tools for your actual work. You leave with something real—an automation, an app, a workflow you&amp;rsquo;ll actually use.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve taught CPAs to extract data from messy tax documents. Lawyers to parse discovery files and find key evidence. Coaches to build adaptive training systems. Content creators to automate outreach.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Projects</title><link>https://benobi.one/projects/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/projects/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This list contains most of the projects I have worked on since 2013.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h2 id="mempalace-2026"&gt;&lt;a href="https://benobi.one/mempalace/"&gt;mempalace (2026)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div class="portfolio-item"&gt;
 &lt;div class="portfolio-image"&gt;
 &lt;img src="https://benobi.one/images/Mempalace%20Logo.png" alt="mempalace - Memory System for AI Agents"&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;div class="portfolio-content"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;mempalace is an open source memory system for AI agents that preserves full-fidelity conversations. No truncation, no lossy summarization. Built with &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DWzNnqwD2Lu/"&gt;Milla Jovovich&lt;/a&gt;, it uses a spatial metaphor — wings, rooms, closets, and drawers — to organize and retrieve AI memory with 96.6% recall on LongMemEval. Free, open source, and a &lt;code&gt;pip install&lt;/code&gt; away.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Resources</title><link>https://benobi.one/resources/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/resources/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This is a curated list of resources that I find useful / interesting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h1 id="ai-resources"&gt;AI Resources&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;h2 id="claude-code"&gt;&lt;a href="https://claude.ai/code"&gt;Claude Code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div class="portfolio-item"&gt;
 &lt;div class="portfolio-image"&gt;
 &lt;img src="https://benobi.one/images/claude-code-web.png" alt="claude code"&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;div class="portfolio-content"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Claude Code is Anthropic&amp;rsquo;s official agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal. It understands your codebase, can edit files, run commands, and help you build software faster through natural conversation.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;h2 id="claude-for-chrome"&gt;&lt;a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/claude/fcoeoabgfenejglbffodgkkbkcdhcgfn"&gt;Claude for Chrome&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div class="portfolio-item"&gt;
 &lt;div class="portfolio-image"&gt;
 &lt;img src="https://benobi.one/images/claude-code.png" alt="claude chrome extension"&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;div class="portfolio-content"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The official Claude Chrome extension brings Claude&amp;rsquo;s AI capabilities directly into your browser. Quickly access Claude from any webpage to help with reading, writing, and analysis tasks.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>XAVIOR</title><link>https://benobi.one/xavior/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://benobi.one/xavior/</guid><description>&lt;div class="mp-page"&gt;
&lt;div class="mp-hero"&gt;
 &lt;img src="https://benobi.one/images/xavior-ai-square.jpg" alt="XAVIOR" class="mp-logo"&gt;
 &lt;p class="mp-tagline"&gt;AI connected to all your data — with the power to act.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="mp-stats"&gt;
 &lt;div class="mp-stat"&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-num"&gt;10&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-label"&gt;Custom fine-tuned models&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;div class="mp-stat"&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-num"&gt;16+&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-label"&gt;Integrations&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;div class="mp-stat"&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-num"&gt;Layer 2&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-label"&gt;AI that acts&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 &lt;div class="mp-stat"&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-num"&gt;Patent&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;span class="mp-stat-label"&gt;Pending&lt;/span&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="mp-section"&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-problem"&gt;The Problem&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The average human lifespan is about 20,000 days. A lot of those days are spent switching between apps, chasing notifications, and trying to keep track of everything.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today&amp;rsquo;s AI is powerful but disconnected — it can&amp;rsquo;t see your inbox, calendar, or deals. You end up copy-pasting between AI and your tools, managing context manually, and doing the busywork that AI was supposed to eliminate.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>