Episodes

Special Guest Chris Mattmann is the author of Machine Learning with TensorFlow, Second Edition. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Chris about his background, worki...

[This Frontmatter Podcast episode was originally published on 2019-02-15...]

From the Archives: Sarah K. Peck is the author of the Leanpub book Pregnancy Affirmations: Words of Wisdom for Pregnancy, Birth, New Motherhood and the Postpartum Period. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Sarah about her background, her diverse career, her love of wri...

Mark Coker is the founder of Smashwords, the world's largest distributor of indie ebooks. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Mark about his background, how he got his start in PR, working with companies during periods of huge growth, what it takes to run a successful startup, his experience co-authoring a novel, the history of self-publishin...

Ken Buckler is the author of the Leanpub book Hacking of the Free: Understanding Digital Threats to Democracy in the 21st Century. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Ken about his background, his first experience with a computer and his early development of an interest in cybersecurity, the importance of privacy when it come...

Marshall Poe is the founder of the New Books Network and author of How to Read a History Book: The Hidden History Of History. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with ...

[This Frontmatter Podcast episode was originally published on 2019-05-01...]

Alberto Brandolini is the author of the Leanpub book Introducing EventStorming: An act of Deliberate Collective Learning. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Alberto about his background, how he got into programming and eventually consulting,...

Nicholas Russo is the author of the Leanpub book Fifty Pieces of Gold: An Engineer's Musings on Business and Life. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Nick about what he's been up to since he last appeared on the podcast, becoming a father, getting into the challenging work of making technical training videos for some of the...

Aaron Sumner is the author of the Leanpub book Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec: A practical approach to test-driven development. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Aaron about his background, how he got into programming, the nature and importance of software testing, the origin of his blog, his book, getting your boo...

Tom Hombergs is the author of the Leanpub book Get Your Hands Dirty on Clean Architecture: A Hands-on Guide to Creating Clean Web Applications with Code Examples in Java. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Tom about his background, how he got into programming, the value of doing a year abroad in ...

Larry Shushansky is the author of the book Independent Enough: A Book About Relationships. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Larry about his background, overcoming drug addictioin and serious illness, the US military draft process during the Vietnam war and his own service in Japan, the impact of US politics ...

David Clinton is the author of the Leanpub book Solving for Technology: How to quickly learn valuable new skills in a madly changing technology world. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with David about his background, the challenges of teaching high school, whether or not teenagers looking for careers in software should go to u...

Ana Bell is the author of the Manning Publications course Get Programming with Python in Motion. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Ana about her background, how she got into Computer Science, and what it's like teaching popular MIT programming courses both in...

Adam Bertram is the author of the Leanpub book Teach Me: How to Write How-to Technical Articles that Make Money. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Adam about his background, how he got into technology, remote work, ADHD, software automation, freelance and technical writing and negotiating pay, his books, and at the end, they talk a...

Henning Schwentner is the author of the Leanpub book Domain Storytelling: A Collaborative Modeling Method. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Henning about his background, how he got into programming, the collaborative nature of programming and the importance of developing soft skills, the nature of Domain-Driven Design and Domain Stor...

Ricci Wolman is the Founder and CEO of Written Word Media. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Ricci about her background, the challenges and benefits of beginning your career in the demanding environment of investment banking, the evolution of online marketing and ecommerce, some of the reasons email newsletters have proven ...

Helen Anderson is the author of the Leanpub book Big Data: From A to Z. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Helen about her background, her path to a career in tech, supply chain analysis, data science, working with imperfect data sets and issues around data visualization, career shifts, big data, her blogging, her bo...

Pamela Q. Fernandes is the author of romance fiction and Christian women's non-fiction books. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Pamela about her background, Marian apparitions, how she got into wr...

Isaac Lyman is the editor of the Leanpub book Your First Year in Code: A complete guide for new & aspiring developers. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Isaac about his background, how he first got into programming, his unique novel-writing app Edward the App, "outliners" vs. "pantsers", his book, the role imperfecti...

Victoria Morgan-Smith is the author of the Leanpub book Internal Tech Conferences: How to accelerate multi-team learning across departments. In this special episode of the Frontmatter podcast, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp speaks with both Victoria and her colleague at the Financial Times, Sarah Wells, about their experiences w...

Gojko Adzic is the author of the Leanpub book Running Serverless: Introduction to AWS Lambda and the Serverless Application Model. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Gojko about his background, his first experience with computers, studying in Belgrade around the time of the NATO bombing, his foray into writing and eventual m...

Philip Sugai is the author of the Leanpub book The Value Plan: The essential guide for developing a winning value proposition and marketing strategy. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Philip about his background studying Economics and Drama before getting an MBA, his early experience writing marketing reports and some ways...

Matthew Skelton is the author of the Leanpub book Team Guide to Software Operability: Proven techniques for making software work well. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Matthew about his background, how he first got into tech, the importance of having a broad range perspectives informing the creation of so...

Jimmy Janlén is the author of the Leanpub book Toolbox for the Agile Coach - Visualization Examples: How great teams visualize their work. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Jimmy about his background, his first experiences coding, the legendary "Spotify model" of development, his book and the power of...

William S. Vincent is the author of the Leanpub book Django for Professionals: Production websites with Python & Django. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Will about his background in book publishing, how the book publishing industry changed in response to Amazon, what a book editor really does and the role that ag...

Julie Moronuki is the author of the Leanpub book Finding Success (and Failure) in Haskell: Fall in love with applicative functors. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Julie about her background and her curious path to writing about the Haskell programming language, philosophy and linguistics and Heidegger, mon...

Judson L. Moore is the author of the Leanpub book Exponential Happiness: How to identify and pursue life goals starting at a young age. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Judson (https://twitter.com/judsonlmoore) about his background, his parents' activism in his youth regarding the rights of people with disabilities and their families, his years working for t...

Mark Nijhof is the author of the Leanpub book CQRS: The Example. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Mark(https://twitter.com/smakassen) about his background, moving a lot during your career, setting up a startup and the difficulty of making sales into big enterprises, his current company Småkassen, which is a clothing subscription service for kids, his book, and at the end, the...

Josh Long is the author of the Leanpub book Reactive Spring. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Josh(https://twitter.com/starbuxman) about his background, his thoughts on the Silicon Valley tech sector and homelessness in San Francisco, how the experience of being an American abroad has changed in some ways in recent years, Spring, his previous books and his work creating videos, his latest book, and at the end

Steve Tendon is the author of the Leanpub book Tame Your Work Flow. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Steve about his background, the TameFlow approach to organizational thinking, blockchain, his work helping to establish a digital innovation strategy for the government of Malta and how legislation can drive innovation, his books, and a...

Paolo Amoroso is the author of the Leanpub book Space Apps for Android: Discover the Best Astronomy and Space Apps. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Paolo about his background, how he got interested in space and astronomy, big changes that have taken place in the way experts can popularize space and astronomy, SpaceX's big...