Episodes

Michael is co-founder of the UK-based book publisher Canelo. In this interview, Michael talks about his background, his early career experience at a prestigious literary agency, digital publishing, curation, tech, and power, and his experience launching and building a successful publishing startup.

In this interview, Jana talks about her background and career, the nature and importance of community building and organizing events, the huge impact of the pandemic on her team's work and how they pivoted to digital events, her book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about her experience as a self-published author.

Ines Garcia is the author of the Leanpub book Becoming More Agile Whilst Delivering Salesforce. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Ines about her background, Salesforce, the importance of games, agile, her book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about her experience as a self-published a...

Emily Bache is the author of the Leanpub book Technical Agile Coaching with the Samman method. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Emily about her background, how she got into programming, moving to Sweden from the UK during the days of the dotcom boom, what her experience of pandemic life has been like living in Sweden, Cod...

Erik Hougaard is the author of the Leanpub book Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Field Guide. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Erik about his background, how he got into technology, the adventure of moving between different countries, his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published ...

Dion Beetson is the author of the Leanpub book Leading software teams with context, not control: Effective practices for creating alignment and engagement within software teams. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Dion about his background, how he got into programming, working while studyin...

Jason Turner is the author of the Leanpub book C++ Best Practices: 45ish Simple Rules with Specific Action Items for Better C++. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Jason about his background, how he got into programming, conference speaking and remote conferences, his book, writing and being a content creator, and his exp...

[This Frontmatter Podcast episode was originally published on 2018-03-01...]

Rob Lambert is the author of the Leanpub book 10 Behaviours Of Effective Employees. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Rob about his background, his book, how big changes in your personal life can lead to changes in your professional life, a surprising ap...

Roberto Vitillo is the author of the Leanpub book The System Design Manual: Learn how to design, build, and operate large scale distributed systems. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Roberto about his background and career, working on the ATLAS experiment, moving to London and working for companies like Mozilla and...

Marianne Bellotti is the author of the Leanpub book Hiring Engineers. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Marianne about her background and career, how she found her way into a career in tech, how anthropology can help you understand legacy code systems, how you can leverage software engineering skills to succeed in a variety of...

[This Frontmatter Podcast episode was originally published on 2019-04-03...]

Andriy Burkov is the author of the Leanpub book The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book: Everything you really need to know in Machine Learning in a hundred pages. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Andriy about his background, what it was like studying computer science in a city with ...

Joel Grus is the author of the Leanpub book Ten Essays on Fizz Buzz: Meditations on Python, mathematics, science, engineering, and design. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Joel about his background, his career, a little bit about his work at the the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, his book, what Fizz Buzz is and why it...

[This Frontmatter Podcast episode was originally published on 2020-04-15...]

Gabriel Volpe is the author of the Leanpub book Practical FP in Scala: A hands-on approach. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Gabriel about his background, growing up in Argentina and how he got into computers and technology, choosing ...

Chris Penner is the author of the Leanpub book Optics By Example: Functional Lenses in Haskell. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Chris about his background, how he got into programming, how he specifically got into programming in Haskell, moving to work for a time in Berlin, why a monad in Haskell is like a "program...

Nigel Poulton is the author of the Leanpub books Docker Deep Dive: Zero to Docker in a single book! and The Kubernetes Book. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Nigel about his background, the inspiration he drew from Star Trek when he was first learning to program computers, working on IT transformat...

Matt Vaughn is the author of the Leanpub book Angular Architecture Patterns: Apply Enterprise Principles and Patterns to Build Amazing Applications. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Matt about his background, self-teaching in tech as a continuous learning process, the importance of softw...

Special Guest: Micah Bowers Micah is the founder and CEO of Bluefire Productions. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Micah about his background, his early career work in television, his work with Adobe on various projects, founding Bluefire and eventually creating the Bluefire ereader, the Cloudshelf Reader app and the Cloudshelf SDK, and more.

This interview was recorded on June 16, 2020....

Special Guest: Jane Friedman is a book publishing industry expert and the editor of The Hot Sheet industry newsletter. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Jane about what she's been up to since she last appeared on the podcast, her book ...

Special Guest: Juergen Boos is CEO of the Frankfurt Book Fair, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award. In this special episode of the podcast, Juergen talks with Leanpub co-founder Len Epp about the history and purpose of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, the importance and difficulty of translation, what it's like organizing a major set of awards with a committee of experts from all around the world, arts and literature in the Middle East generally...