Hey, I'm Kurt.

I'm a formerly incarcerated tech leader, photographer, creator, and advocate for second chances. (and now apparently I'm also a theoretical physicist 😅)

Information Physics Theory

Information Physics Overview: Start Here

Information Physics proposes to explain reality from cosmic collision to conscious experience through boundary information dynamics. Navigate the complete theoretical framework—from collision-diffusion mathematics achieving 48-49% cosmic accuracy with only two parameters, to consciousness as evolved...

Collision Theory (CDE): Unified Information Physics Framework

Collision Theory serves as the foundational component within the unified Information Physics framework, explaining cosmic evolution through boundary information dynamics. This theory integrates seamlessly with the broader Information Physics framework to provide a complete understanding of cosmic or...

Electromagnetic Voxel Lattice Theory (EVL): Unified Information Physics Framework

The Electromagnetic Voxel Lattice Theory describes spacetime as a discrete electromagnetic lattice where information propagates through voxel hops at fundamental rates. This theory provides the physical substrate for all Information Physics frameworks, establishing the discrete foundation from which...

Information Physics Theory (IP): Unified Framework for Consciousness and Information Navigation

Information Physics describes how consciousness evolved as a boundary information navigation mechanism within the cosmic processing system created by the information boundary collision mechanism. This theory explains how conscious agents use time and information to navigate entropic constraints and ...

Entropic Mechanics (EM): Observer-Dependent Entropy Navigation Mathematics

Entropic Mechanics provides the mathematical framework for observer-dependent navigation of information gradients within the unified Information Physics system. This theory describes how conscious agents strategically influence system entropy evolution through operation selection, intent direction, ...

CDE–EVL v1.1: Chemistry-Enhanced Collision–Diffusion Cosmology

Enhanced v1.1 specification achieving remarkable 2.76% accuracy for proto-galaxy formation (z=10) and overall RMS ≈ 27.67% using only two fitted parameters. Chemistry-complexity modulation C(z) and weighted activity tracers dramatically improve early universe predictions while maintaining mathematic...

IP Abstract: Unified Framework for Reality from Collision to Consciousness

Information Physics presents a unified theoretical framework explaining reality from cosmic collision to conscious experience through boundary information dynamics. Achieving RMS ≈ 27.67% (v1.1) cosmic structure accuracy using only two fitted parameters, the framework integrates collision theory, di...

IP Punch Card: The Entire Theoretical Framework in One Page

Your complete reference guide to Information Physics—the theory that connects cosmic evolution to conscious experience through information processing. One equation governs everything from galaxy formation to neural networks. Discover how consciousness evolved as a navigation tool in the cosmic 13.8-...

IP Field Guide: A Practitioner's Journey from Maximum Entropy to Universal Principles

A practitioner's journey from maximum entropy to universal principles. Fifteen years navigating humanity's highest-entropy environments—from prison yards to boardrooms—revealed patterns connecting quantum mechanics to organizational behavior through a single mathematical framework. This personal dis...

The Friction Economy

The Friction Economy: How User Experience Failures Create Systematic B2B SaaS Disruption

Discover the Friction Economy—a hidden force reshaping B2B SaaS. Learn how unnoticed user frustrations drive market disruption and why your retention metrics might be masking critical vulnerabilities.

Market Disruption in the AI Era: Connecting JTBD, Blue Ocean, and Frustration Coalitions with PLG Strategies

Learn how user frustration drives B2B SaaS disruption through Jobs to be Done, Frustration Coalitions, and Blue Ocean Strategy—and why AI makes every incumbent vulnerable.

Frustration Coalitions: The Hidden Threat to Every B2B SaaS

Learn how frustrated users organize into coalitions that drive mass B2B SaaS churn. Discover early warning signs and prevention strategies before customers leave.

The Captive User Trap: Why Stable Usage + Declining NPS = Maximum Danger

Why stable usage with declining NPS is the most dangerous pattern in B2B SaaS. How trapped users become exodus events when PLG competitors offer escape routes.

Frustration Coalitions

An observational framework for predicting and preventing mass B2B SaaS customer defection. Learn how frustrated users organize into coalitions that drive switching decisions, why stable usage with declining NPS signals maximum risk, and how PLG accelerates coalition formation from months to weeks.

The Sentiment-Inertia Index (Sii)

A quantifiable metric that measures trapped user frustration in B2B SaaS. When NPS drops but churn stays flat, Sii = ((100-NPS)/Churn) reveals the accumulating pressure that predicts competitive displacement before revenue impact.

AI Strategy & Innovation

LLM Experience: The Missing Discipline in AI Development

While prompts and tools get attention, the biggest opportunity in AI development lies in designing information architecture that optimizes for AI cognition. LLM Experience is the discipline that changes AI systems from functional to exceptional.

Leaky Prompts: How Context Pollution Degrades AI Performance

As AI capabilities become commoditized, the quality of your context architecture determines success. Understanding how leaky prompts create context pollution is essential for building AI systems that maintain focus and deliver consistent value.

Context Pollution: Measuring Semantic Drift in AI Workflows

Context Pollution is a diagnostic signal that measures the growing semantic divergence between what the user intended and what the AI is now doing.

Gap-filling Expertise with Claude Projects

In the dynamic world of Developer Relations, we often find ourselves at the intersection of multiple disciplines, requiring input and expertise from various teams across the organization. However, the reality is that these cross-functional teams may not always have the bandwidth to provide timely su...

Democratizing AI: Empowering Creators and Shaping the Future of Innovation

As AI becomes increasingly powerful and pervasive, a crucial question emerges: Who will control this technology and reap its benefits? The answer to this question will have significant implications for innovation, economic opportunity, and the future of work. That's why democratizing AI - making it ...

Unlocking Expert Minds: Eight Patterns for AI-guided Knowledge Capture

Explore eight innovative patterns for capturing specialized knowledge through guided, interactive interviews. These approaches use dynamic questioning and real-time analysis with AI to uncover deep insights, challenge assumptions, and map complex expertise across various fields. Discover how these m...

Developer Relations

The Developer Advocate's Guide to Metrics and Reporting

As developer advocates, avoid becoming extensions of other teams by closely learning metrics: the different types you'll encounter and when to use them, which are trusted and untrusted, and how to build them effectively to support your team's goals.

The Developer Advocate's Guide to Addressing Product Friction

Over the last three months, we've been developing a framework at Apollo called DX Audits to help us identify, document, report, and address product friction. It was getting difficult to scale this part of developer advocacy so we came up with a framework and this post covers our experience with it a...

The Developer Advocate's Guide to Content Creation

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the idea of having to create that next blog post or YouTube video? Do you find yourself unable to finish things because you're not quite sure when to call it done? Are you adjusting your outlines or talking points on the fly? Learn how to create content more effecti...

The Developer Advocate's Guide to Getting Buy-In

Getting buy-in as a developer advocate is a unique challenge. We usually are not the owners or even direct contributors to what we're trying to change. Instead, we represent this bizarre ephemeral thing called a "community." In this post, I'll cover what buy-in is, how it applies to developer advoca...

The Developer Advocate's Guide to Asking for Things

Whether we're trying to get buy-in internally or working on collaborations externally, we're generally in the business of asking. Learn how to get better results from your requests by rethinking the nature of relationships and following the three Rs of asking for things: Recognition, Request, and Re...