Kester Brewin

Category: Books

  • Break

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    I took one. Over a month since I last posted on the blog. Some stuff happened, but all good. I wasn’t the one who needed it, but please learn CPR, because you never know. Also, taking a break is fine. Content creation… updating socials… you really don’t have to. So, sometimes, don’t. And don’t worry.…

  • Frictionless: why free-flows of information are not doing us any good

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    “Recruitment… it’s just totally broken” This week I was at an event in Bournemouth visiting the excellent Spear project there, and the collaboration they were doing with a job agency, Pollen. One of the young people on the panel that formed part of the event is an advisor in a job centre, and she, and…

  • Yes, the audiobook for God-like is coming…

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    Thanks to everyone who’s requested this. Obviously, I’ve taken the pirate approach… taking control of the means of production… 🏴‍☠️ … but I’m fortunate to have some good audio production resources built up with various work projects and band stuff over the years. It’s actually quite enjoyable to do… but will require some honing, so…

  • Street-level innovation & Building meso-narratives.

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    Really good report out this week from an excellent acquaintance, Rachel Coldicutt, who runs Careful Industries. It is possible to rapidly spark a culture of inclusive innovation across the UK, that begins in neighbourhoods and forms a golden network of locally rooted community incubator organisations, supported by long-term investment and clear success measures. As well…

  • God-like ‘most compelling radical theology text I have read’

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    Many thanks to Tripp Fuller for including God-Like in his top 20 reads for 2024. Thrilled to have that generous support for the book from someone who reads a LOT, and is an all round very smart thinker too. Some great other books on the list too – including my friend Tad Delay’s excellent exploration…

  • AI and the Novel

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    I’ve been thinking a bit about Generative AI and the particular form of writing that is the novel. And the more I think about it, I’m becoming convinced that the novel – which is an exceptionally distilled form of creativity, one that takes perhaps the longest time of any art form, and is ultimately created…