Episodes

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.

Special Guest: Matthew Guay - Matthew is co-founder of Reproof. In this interview, Matthew talks about what he’s been up to since his first appearance on the podcast in 2017, startups and entrepreneurship, his experience of the pandemic working on distributed teams, livestream group podcasting, and his work on Reproof at reproof.app.

John Koster - John is the author of the Leanpub book Advanced PHP Strings: Text analysis, generation, and parsing via. Laravel. In this interview, John talks about his background, some of the fundamentals of Computer Science, Laravel , his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a writer.

Andrew Rathbun - Andrew is co-author of the Leanpub book EZ Tools Manuals. In this interview, Andrew talks about his background in military service and law enforcement, emotional intelligence and high-intensity work, his amazing Discord server that has connected digital forensics professionals from around the world, and his book projects.

Vagner Figueredo de Santana - Vagner is the author of the Leanpub book Interaction Data Analytics: Methods, Tools, and Applications. In this interview, Vagner talks about his background, getting a PhD, the fascinating details of human-computer interaction, computer anxiety, explicit and implicit forms of interaction,his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.

Dave Farley - Dave is the author of the Leanpub book Continuous Delivery Pipelines: How to Build Better Software Faster. In this interview, Dave talks about his background, continuous delivery and the application of scientific principles to software development, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a bestselling author and host of a hugely successful YouTube channel.

Special Guest: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez - Guy is Chief Content Officer at LibraryPass. In this interview, Guy talks about what he’s been up to since he first appeared on the podcast in 2020, his work for the Panorama Project and LibraryPass, the unique challenges of a library-related startup, comic books and book bans, the Department of Justice’s hearings about the proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster.

Michael Zanatta - Michael is the author of the Leanpub book Modern IT Automation with PowerShell: Modern Automation with PowerShell. In this interview, Michael talks about his background and career, the nature and importance of the work systems administrators do, his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience putting self-published books together in highly collaborative self-publishing projects.