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.
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.Film · Work in progress
A Film Idea
From a question about recursive self-improvement to a family fortune, a digital father, and a second goodbye.Reflections
Do It Now, While You Still Know Everything
On youthful certainty, older experience, and giving someone room to discover the world for themselves.Reflections
A Day at the Office
Fourteen interviews, an evolving AI workflow, and the irresistible urge to invent a digital clapboard instead of editing the bloody videos.Reflections
Here We Go Again…
On leaving home, returning to an idea, and setting out again without the old need to conquer the world.Soup of the Day
Observations and Ideas Thinly Veiled as a Daily Journal
On certainty, faith, doubt, sharp sarcasm, and one little collection of atoms trying to make sense of it all.Thinking · Reflection
Know thyself, stardust & chess
On metacognition, consciousness, stardust, and the frameworks we build around reality.Reflections
The Path Does Not Lead Towards Me
On blame, humour, owning mistakes, and learning how much force a moment really deserves.Language · Ancestry · Reflection
From Taiwan to Aotearoa
A morning’s journey through language, migration, ancestry, and the quiet programming we inherit.Thinking · Faith · Reflection
How Much Did I Bring With Me?
On interpreting texts and beliefs, the assumptions we carry, and what remains when we question them.Soup of the Day
The Door Knockerers
A grammatical joke, a missionary with a changing name badge, and the beginnings of an AI rock band.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.02Training philosophy · Field note
From strength to skill.
What happens when lifting stops being a contest of willpower—and becomes a practice of attention?03Strength · Philosophy
Make extraordinary weights look ordinary.
A philosophy of raising the floor, owning the weight, and making strength repeatable.04Training · Recovery
The expensive win.
A remarkable bench cycle, the fatigue bill that followed, and what the deload revealed.09Technology · Field guide
Building a personal LLM system.
A practical architecture for connecting personal knowledge, files, spreadsheets, and AI.10Self-care · Reflection
Take care of this…
Why caring for yourself is not selfishness, but the beginning of every sustainable act of care.Kept for context
Archive / 03
Archive.
Earlier notes and reference pieces. Still useful, simply no longer part of the main collection.
People You Meet
People / 04
People You Meet
People You Meet
The Forklift Driver
A drink at Costco, a smiling stranger, and thirty years of building a life worth enjoying.People You Meet
The Life of Brian
A barber named Brian, a straight razor, an old Scots sentence, and a story worth keeping.People You Meet
Nicholas and the Thirty Years’ War
A security guard, a serious history book, and a supermarket conversation that travelled from seventeenth-century Europe to New Zealand, with an interruption involving eggs.Remembrances
He Maimai Aroha / 05
He Maimai Aroha
An expression of affection