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Peter Kay

Peter Kay

Books are the best containers for ideas

Books are quiet. Books allow for nuance. You can stop reading a book and start reading it later. You can reread passages. Books open up a…

Mar 4, 2016

Mar 4, 2016

Peter Kay

User Acquisition Hacks For App Developers

The book recommendation app Ncvrs has been out in iOS for about 3 months and Android for three weeks. We’ve managed to rack up about 5000…

Feb 24, 2016

Feb 24, 2016

Peter Kay

Moby Dick: Melville’s stormy passage to the canon

What follows is an excerpt of Liveright editor-in-chief Bob Weil’s talk to the Chataqua Institution entitled “How To Recognize A Classic”

Feb 22, 2016

Moby Dick: Melville’s stormy passage to the canon

Feb 22, 2016

Peter Kay

People who liked the 33 1/3 Television’s Marquee Moon book…

NYU English prof Bryan Waterman knows his 70s: the 1770s and the 1970s, that is. And in his copious spare time, he managed to write the…

Feb 16, 2016

People who liked the 33 1/3 Television’s Marquee Moon book…

Feb 16, 2016

Peter Kay

All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner

One of the more popular books in the ncvrs collection is All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner, which tells the story of suburban mom Allison…

Feb 14, 2016

All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner

Feb 14, 2016

Peter Kay

American Psycho and Actual Psychopaths

Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho was published 25 years ago, and the book’s publication process was fraught with scandal, the kind of…

Feb 9, 2016

American Psycho and Actual Psychopaths

Feb 9, 2016

Peter Kay

Rock Star CEO or Disco CEO

The internet is awash with executive coaches, writers of long thinkpieces about leadership and various other scoundrels. Since I’ve started…

Feb 1, 2016

Rock Star CEO or Disco CEO

Feb 1, 2016

Peter Kay

What Roasting Coffee Beans At Home Taught Me About Leadership

Nothing really but it’s a lot of fun, brews a superior cup and is cheaper than buying roasted beans. Sadly my neighbors thought I was…

Jan 25, 2016

What Roasting Coffee Beans At Home Taught Me About Leadership

Jan 25, 2016

Peter Kay

Ncvrs in Publishers Weekly

Pretty exciting to get written up in PW — the entire article “What Does 2016 Hold for Digital Publishing?” is paywalled, but here are the…

Jan 11, 2016

Jan 11, 2016

Peter Kay

If you’re thinking about launching a startup in 2016

Follow your passion. Or not.

Dec 31, 2015

Dec 31, 2015

Peter Kay

Peter Kay

Problem solver: Product, Data Science, Knowledge Management. Tried a couple of startups: failure is informative but not fun.

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