Episodes

In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp chats with Claire Bowern, Vice President of the Endangered Language Fund and Associate Professor of Linguistics at Yale University. Claire’s fascinating research includes working with the speakers of a number of languages from Northern Australia. Claire talks about her career, her work, and the two books she has published on Leanpub, Learner’s Guide to Bardi and Learners Guide to Yan-nhagu.

In this interview Leanpub cofounder Len Epp chats with Emmanuel Nataf, co-founder of Reedsy, a marketplace for high-quality publishing services that helps authors find professional editors, designers and marketers. We talk about how how Reedsy got started and about their vision for the future of publishing.

In this interview Leanpub cofounder Len Epp interviews Jeff Geerling, a full-stack developer, author and blogger. We talk about how Jeff got into programming, his bestselling Leanpub book Ansible for DevOps: Server and configuration management for humans, and how he made over $25,000 in sales before his book was finished.

In this interview Leanpub cofounder Len Epp interviews Obie Fernandez, an author, consultant, and current Senior Vice President of Engineering at 2U. We talk about Obie's career and his latest book, Serverless: Patterns of Modern Application Design Using Microservices.

In this interview Leanpub cofounder Len Epp interviews Patrick Kua, a technical leader and agile coach for ThoughtWorks, and the author of two Leanpub books, The Retrospective Handbook and Talking with Tech Leads. Patrick is also a blogger and frequent conference speaker. We talk about how Patrick began his career, his thoughts about the importance of retrospectives, and the various challenges tech leads meet in the course of their work.

In this podcast Leanpub cofounder Len Epp interviews Thomas Davis, a full stack developer based in Brisbane, Australia, and author of Backbone Tutorials: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. Thomas is currently the CTO of FPV Racing, a new sport that combines hi-tech drones with high speed racing. He has led and been involved in many projects over the years, and he has a particular interest in building and organizing large open source groups. Thomas has helped millions of website visitors learn Backbone.js through his popular tutori...

Brian Caffo is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health. In this interview he talks with Leanpub cofounder Len Epp about how he first became interested in biostatistics, why it's such an important and growing field, and about his research interests and initiatives.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews Paul M. Jones, an internationally recognized PHP expert who has worked for organizations in many different sectors, including medical, non-profit, educational and military organizations. Paul is the author of Modernizing Legacy Applications In PHP.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews Jeff Leek, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Oncology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and author ofThe Elements of Data Analytic Style.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews Ryan Bigg, a Melbourne, Australia based software developer, writer and blogger, and author of Multitenancy with Rails.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews Roger Peng, Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and author of the Leanpub book R Programming for Data Science. In the interview, Roger discusses his career, his book, and his experiences using Leanpub.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews W. Jason Gilmore, a Columbus, Ohio-based software developer, writer and consultant, and author Easy Laravel 5 and three other Leanpub books. In the interview, Jason discusses his career, his book, and his experiences using Leanpub.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby and now of Wood Egg, a company which is using Leanpub to publish comprehensive guides move to and starting a business in 16 countries in Asia. In the interview, Derek discusses his career, his reasons for starting Wood Egg, and his experiences using Leanpub.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews Matthias Noback, author of the Leanpub book A Year With Symfony: Writing Healthy, Reusable Symfony2 Code, discussing Symfony, Matthias's book, and his experiences using Leanpub.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews Taylor Otwell, creator of the Laravel PHP framework and author of the Leanpub book Laravel: From Apprentice to Artisan, discussing Laravel, Taylor's book, and his experiences using Leanpub.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews Luc Beaudoin, the author of Cognitive Productivity: The Art and Science of Using Knowledge to Become Profoundly Effective, discussing his research interests and his book, and his experiences using Leanpub.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews Paul Bradshaw, the author of Scraping for Journalists and 8000 Holes: How the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay Lost its Way, discussing his work and teaching on data journalism, his books, and his experiences with Leanpub.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews Chris Hartjes, the author of The Grumpy Programmer's Guide To Building Testable PHP Applications and The Grumpy Programmer's PHPUnit Cookbook, discussing his books, his career, and his experiences with Leanpub.

In this podcast Len Epp interviews John Hunter, the author of Management Matters, discussing his management principles, the work of W. Edwards Deming, executive pay, and his experiences with Leanpub.

In this podcast Peter interviews Caitlin McDonald, the author of Global Moves, discussing belly dance, Egypt, her writing and her experiences with Leanpub.

In this podcast Peter interviews Andrew Dubber, the author of Music in the Digital Age and two other Leanpub books, discussing his writing, lean publishing and his experiences with Leanpub.

In this podcast Peter interviews Amanda Taub, the editor of Beyond Kony2012, discussing her writing, Kony2012, lean publishing and her experiences with Leanpub.

In this podcast Peter interviews Manuel Kiessling, the author of The Node Beginner Book, discussing his writing, lean publishing and his experiences with Leanpub.

In this podcast Peter interviews Reg Raganwald Braithwaite, the author of four Leanpub books, discussing Hacker News, lean publishing and Leanpub.

In this podcast Peter interviews Johanna Rothman, the author of 'Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds', discussing what led her to write her book and why she chose Leanpub.

In this podcast Peter interviews Yves Hanoulle, the lead author of Who is agile?, discussing his process for making a Leanpub book with a group of contributors, and showing what customer development is all about.

In this podcast Peter interviews Roy Osherove, the author of 'Notes to a Software Team Leader', discussing what led Roy to write his book, and why he chose lean publishing.