Kester Brewin

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  • 🎄 Signed copies of my books, direct from me, with zero Bezos 🎄

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    What better present for your nearest and dearest than a personal, signed copy of one of my books? Just added a shop part of my site, so you can buy direct and send me off to the local post office with a special edition, all without paying a penny to Bezos! Limited stock, so get…

  • Some Invigorating Shit

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    Very smart piece by Janani Balasubramanian in The New Inquiry 0n the move in the US by the Federal Drug Administration to reclassify human excrement as an ‘Investigational New Drug.’ I actually tweeted about a similar story on the BBC website last year, which outlined the growth in the use of fecal transfers to treat…

  • The Gift of Sleep | Resisting 24/7

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    Happy New Year people. Been on school holidays for the past couple of weeks, which has mostly meant getting my head down writing (finishing novel / working on a follow-up to Mutiny-After Magic – more news of which soon). I’ve also been reading a fascinating book – 24/7 by Jonathan Crary. It explores how 24/7…

  • e-Edition of The Complex Christ / Signs of Emergence

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    Happy to announce that there is now a Kindle version of my first book The Complex Christ – released in the US as Signs of Emergence. An iBookstore / ePub format version will be available soon too. It’s nearly 10 years since the book was released, and I’ve moved a long way since that time,…

  • Gifts, Not Exchanges

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    Interesting debate going on about charitable giving in the UK. The recent coalition government’s budget set a cap on the amount of money that people can give and get tax relief for…and charities have responded with concerns that this will reduce the amount of money they receive. In a weird parallel story, a supermarket have…

  • Non-Excludable, Non-Rival : The Upside-Down Economics of Good Ideas

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    Some thoughts to share on sharing thoughts… “If you have an apple, and I have an apple, and we exchange apples, then you and I will still have one apple. But if you have an idea, and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” George Bernard…