Episodes

Special Guest: Carol J. Michel - Carol is a speaker and podcaster and author of award-winning self-published gardening books. In this interview, Carol talks about her background and career, how she got into gardening, blogging and self-publishing, and her recent popular post on How to Market Your Book Without Social Media.

Lisa Crispin - Lisa is co-author of the Leanpub book Agile Testing Condensed. In this interview, Lisa talks about her background, donkeys, the importance of psychological safety for developing high-quality software, her books, conventional publishing and self-publishing, arranging translations of a self-published book into multiple languages, and at the end, they talk a little bit about her experience as a self-published author.

Lena is the author of the Leanpub book Would Heu-Risk it? Tools, traps and weapons for Software Testing. In this interview, Lena talks about her background, her career, switching to a focus on software testing and the particular nature of the challenge testing presents, shifting a team to fully remote work during the pandemic, her book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about her experience as a self-published author.

Ajdin Imsirovic - Ajdin is the author of the Leanpub book A Better Way To Learn JavaScript: Save Yourself From 1000 Hours of Trial and Error Experiences! In this interview, Ajdin talks about his background, learning English in part from listening to music, his approach to writing, and the pros and cons of conventional publishing and self-publishing.

Roy Keyes - Roy is the author of the Leanpub book Hiring Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers: A Practical Guide. In this interview, Roy talks about his background, computation and medical physics, data science and the challenges people in the industry face both in hiring and in getting hired, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.

Charles is the author of the Leanpub book Functional Programming Made Easier: A Step-by-Step Guide. In this interview, Charles talks about his background and career, remote work, how programming can be like dreaming, writing screenplays, his book and his approach to teaching programming, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.

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 ...