Episodes

Edward Abramowich - Edward is the author of the Leanpub book Agile Hardware in Action: A Practical Guide to Building Products for the Fast-paced World. In this interview, Edward talks about his background, moving to Japan from Australia after university, his fascinating career tackling big problems for huge industrial projects, Lean and Agile and manufacturing, and about his experience writing an in-progress book.

Neil Studd - Neil is the author of the Leanpub book Finding Mojovation: How to create contentment in your work and personal life. In this interview, Neil talks about his background and career, studying journalism and making his way into software testing, and his experience writing a book.

Mark Graban - Mark is the author of the Leanpub book The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation. In this interview, Mark talks about what he’s been up to since he was last on the podcast, his new book on how to set up an organizational culture that can get value from the inevitable mistakes people make, and his experience publishing his latest book.

Rafael Chinelato del Nero - Rafael is the author of the Leanpub book Java Interview Challenger: Ace Java Interviews by Mastering Fundamentals of Data Structures and Algorithms. In this interview, Rafael talks about his background and career, moving to a new country, creating content and becoming a Java Champion.

Alex Pukinskis - Alex is the author of the Leanpub book The Art of Connected Facilitation: Stop Wasting Time in Zoom and Make Plans that Stick. In this interview, Alex talks about his background and career, what facilitation is and why it’s important, and the future of work.

Special Guest Peter H. Gregory - Peter is the author of the Leanpub book The Art of Writing Technical Books: The Tools, Techniques, and Lifestyle of a Published Author. In this interview, Peter talks about about his background and career, his work writing and publishing over 50 technical books, and the possibilities AI holds for authors in the future.

Alexandru Cernat - Alexandru is the author of the Leanpub book Longitudinal Data Analysis Using R. In this interview, Alexandru talks about his background and career, his book, and his experience as an author.

Soledad Galli - Soledad is the author of the Leanpub book Feature Selection in Machine Learning with Python: Over 20 methods to select the most predictive features and build simpler, faster, and more reliable machine learning models. In this interview, Soledad talks about her background and career, moving away from academia into the corporate world, and becoming a successful self-employed instructor and content creator.

brian d foy - brian is the author of the Leanpub book Perl New Features: The evolution of Perl from v5.10 to now. In this interview, brian talks about his background and career, his book, and his experience as an author.

Jeroen Leenarts - Jeroen is the author of the Leanpub book Being a Lead Software Developer. In this interview, Jeroen talks about his background and career, his book, and his experience as a writer.

Bruno Rodrigues - Bruno is the author of the Leanpub book Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R. In this interview, Bruno talks about his background and career, his book, and his experience as a writer.

Neil Keleher - Neil is the author of the Leanpub book Learning how to learn: Mental models. In this interview, Neil talks about his life and career, his books, what mental models are and how you can improve them, and about his approach to writing.

Diana Montalion - Diana is the author of the Leanpub book Writing as Thinking: Practices for Technology Professionals. In this interview, Diana talks about her background and her career, becoming a systems architect, the nature of non-linear systems thinking, and how writing can help you learn how to think differently.

Markus Voelter - Markus is the author of the Leanpub book How to Understand Almost Anything: A Practitioner’s Guide to Domain Analysis. In this interview, Markus talks about about his background and career, the omega tau podcast, the fascinating topic of domain analysis, and his writing.

Tim McConnaughy - Tim is the author of the Leanpub book The Hybrid Cloud Handbook for AWS: AWS Cloud Networking for Traditional Network Engineers. In this interview, Tim talks about his background and career, the essential work network engineers do, his book, and his experience as an author.

Ebenezer Don - Ebenezer is the author of the Leanpub book Simplified JavaScript for Very Important Programmers: The Fast Track to Mastering Essential JavaScript Concepts. In this interview, Ebenezer talks about his background and career, how he learned to be a programmer, the value of learning the basics, his book, and his experience as a writer and content creator.

Pavel Yosifovich - Pavel is the author of the Leanpub book Windows Kernel Programming: Second Edition. In this interview, Pavel talks about his background and career, his book, and his experience as an author.

Étienne Garbugli - Étienne is the author of the Leanpub book Lean B2B: Build Products Businesses Want (Second Edition). In this interview, Étienne talks about his background and career, startups, business-to-business product development and sales, his book, and at the end, about his experience as a writer.

Gareth Heyes - Gareth is the author of the Leanpub book JavaScript for hackers: Learn to think like a hacker. In this interview, Gareth talks about investigating software security, the nature of hacking, his book, and his experience as a writer.

Marcin Moskała - Marcin is the author of the Kotlin for Developers Series. In this interview, Marcin talks about his background, Kotlin, his book series, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.

Mark Watson - Mark is the author of the Leanpub book Practical Python Artificial Intelligence Programming. In this interview, Mark talks about his background and career in computing and artificial intelligence, how AI technology and practice has changed over time, and his journey as a book author.

Allan Kelly - Allan is the author of the Leanpub book Books to be written: A non-fiction author’s how-to guide to writing, publishing & marketing you own books. In this interview, Allan talks about his background, his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.

Special Guest: Hugh Hodges - Hugh is the author of The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher’s Britain in 21 Mixtapes. In this interview, Hugh talks about his background, his book, and his experience writing and publishing a book with an independent press.

Marc Reid - Marc is the author of the Leanpub book You Are (Not) a Fraud: A Scientist’s Guide to the Imposter Phenomenon. In this interview, Marc talks about his background, his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.

Mike Gold - Mike is the author of Creating a Wordle Game in React and TypeScript. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Mike about his background, his book, and his experience writing and self-publishing.

Mathias Verraes - Mathias is co-author of the Leanpub book Design and Reality: Essays on Software Design. In this interview, Mathias talks about his background, Domain-Driven Design, his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.

Special Guest: Jane Friedman - In this episode, Jane talks with Leanpub co-founder Len Epp about what happened in the book publishing industry in 2022. They cover a lot of ground, from ebook pricing to audiobooks to the PRH/Simon & Schuster case, and much more!

Helen Scott - Helen is the author of the Leanpub book Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA: Level up your IntelliJ IDEA knowledge so that you can focus on doing what you do best. In this interview, Helen talks about her background, her book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about her experience co-authoring a self-published book.

Trisha Gee - Trisha is co-author of the Leanpub book Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA: Level up your IntelliJ IDEA knowledge so that you can focus on doing what you do best. In this interview, Trisha talks about her background and career, her book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about her experience co-authoring a self-published book.

Luke Pivac - Luke is the author of the Leanpub book An Agile Playbook for Technical Communicators: A Guide for Technical Communicators Working with Agile Teams. In this interview, Luke talks about his background, the history of technical documentation in the military and the art of plain language, being diagnosed with ADHD at age 40, and his book.