A place for things worth keeping
Ideas, resources
& field notes.
Kete is a growing collection of writing, practical resources, and work in progress—gathered in one place and made to be shared.
Current collection
Collection / 01
Choose a piece.
Finished writing that carries the present voice of Kete.
Training philosophy · Field note
From strength to skill.
What happens when lifting stops being a contest of willpower—and becomes a practice of attention?Strength · Philosophy
Make extraordinary weights look ordinary.
A philosophy of raising the floor, owning the weight, and making strength repeatable.Training · Recovery
The expensive win.
A remarkable bench cycle, the fatigue bill that followed, and what the deload revealed.Self-care · Reflection
Take care of this thing that you are.
Why caring for yourself is not selfishness, but the beginning of every sustainable act of care.Media · Systems · Field note
The $7 Idea.
How a seven-dollar experiment grew from a useful team tool into a way of making a professional capability visible.Instinct · Reflection
The Spike
A strong reaction can be useful information. The trick is learning when to trust it, when to question it, and when not to let it drive.Film · Work in progress
An Otherwise Ordinary Day
A short-film idea about ordinary calls, complicated people, and a walk whose destination changes everything that came before it.Mind · Reflection
I Like My Little Brain
A fond look at the quirks, patterns, tangents, and occasional cattle prods of a little brain learning to enter the room unpoliced.Thinking · Reflection
The Waft
On frameworks, intuition, recovery, and the small conditions that allow a genuinely new thought to arrive.Strength · Recovery · Field note
What Gets to Stay
A working program, a recurring fatigue bill, and the harder discipline of deciding what still earns its place.Māori storytelling · Technology · Reflection
Before the Story
What if the most useful thing AI could build for Māori storytellers is not the story, but the world around it?Memory · Loss · Reflection
The Part Loss Doesn’t Own
On letting grief, betrayal, and regret have their part of the story without surrendering every good memory to them.Training · Identity · Reflection
I Train to Remember Who I Am
A sentence that began as a T-shirt idea and took more than a year to reveal what it was really asking of me.Media · Daily note
Notes from a Filming Day
Fourteen interviews, an evolving production system, a missed workout, and some thoughts that bumped into each other along the way.Reflections
Remember Lassie?
On knowing when encouragement has done its job, and when it is time to bark, point, and go lie down.Thinking · Reflection
The Best I Can Do Right Now
A thought arrives sounding complete, then has to survive the writer becoming suspicious of it.Systems & practical references
Notebook / 02
Notebook.
Working systems and useful material kept close at hand.
Thinking & Systems
The conversation is the workshop. The vault is the library.
How exploratory conversations with AI became a workshop for ideas—and why an Obsidian vault may be the right place to preserve what survives.09Technology · Field guide
Building a personal LLM system.
A practical architecture for connecting personal knowledge, files, spreadsheets, and AI.Kept for context
Archive / 03
Archive.
Earlier notes and reference pieces. Still useful, simply no longer part of the main collection.
The People That You Meet
People / 04