Kevin Wacknov’s Website

The Story of Kevin Wacknov’s Apps

Countless people have helped me, and the universe has helped me, but basically my family has helped me.

In middle school at Bowditch in Foster City, Marge Cole was my first computer science teacher in the seventh grade. We used Apple II computers.

In high school, I had a great sense of, “Humanity has some serious problems. What can I do about it?” Drug experimentation intensified this sense.

After college, I was still a low-skill programmer—and I still am a low-skill programmer. I got a job doing software maintenance at Spectra Renal Management in Fremont. Later, I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, influenced in part by a predisposition and too much meditation at Berkeley Psychic Institute.

I moved back in with my parents and returned to school to study graphic design.

Then I combined my practice of Tai Chi with computer programming and graphic design. I slowly wrote some apps and made videos to help people with body and mind awareness.

The recent expansion of artificial intelligence has helped make the apps more professional.

Mr. Ropa and Peter Sage

Mr. Ropa is the voice in my head from Schizophrenia. Peter Sage is the delusion that the Universe speaks to me. They helped me write the apps and do everything that I do.

The 4, 5, and 9 Element Structure of the Apps

Many of the apps are based on the 4 elements Water, Wind, Fire, and Ground, and 5 Elements, adding Space, that came from StuHel adopting Musahsi's language of 5 rings. The 9 Elements comes from adding Left, Right, World or Environment, and Other People. The idea is to partition human experience into N distinct categories and switch between them every 20 seconds or so to keep people from getting "stuck" in any 1 state. There are from the side of a person 4 basic directions: forward, back, up, down, and then center in the middle. But StuHel rotates the axis 45 degrees for Human Energies so Fire is like a vector Up + Front, Wind is Up + Back, Water is Back + Down, and Ground is Down + Front. Ground is not the ground you walk on but the shield or personal boundary everyone has. All cells have a boundary they must defend and countries, organizations, and people have to defend their boundaries also. The StuHel 4 energies can be Strategies, Habits, Rings, Responses, and many other things. The 4 or 5 Boundary responses are StuHel's Eastern Philosophy of the Western Flight, Fight, Faint, or Fawn response in Physiology and Psychology. These 4 ideas are so deep that they cannot be simply labelled or easily understood. The 9 element extension makes a nice set in 3 dimensions so it works for the Inner Kung Fu Game (PlayStation Game, the original version of Kevin's 3D app series.)