Episodes

Barret Nobel and Jake Montalbano - Barret and Jake are the authors of the Leanpub book The DadFit Dynasty Manual: Daily Modern Strategies. In this interview, Barret and Jake talk about their backgrounds, how they approach being fit dads, the challenges that come with fatherhood and marriage, and how they’re writing a book together to reach more people with their ideas.

Luca Berton - Luca is the author of the Leanpub book Ansible Cookbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Unleashing the Power of Ansible via Best Practices, Troubleshooting, and Linting Rules. In this interview, Luca talks about his background and career, Ansible and automation and open source software, and his experience as a content creator.

Dave Leeds - Dave is the author of the Leanpub book Kotlin: An Illustrated Guide. In this interview, Dave talks about his background and career, and how to write a great programming book.

Daniel Vacanti - Daniel is the author of the Leanpub book Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II: Advanced Topics in Predictability. In this interview, Daniel talks about his book, and how to take action on deliberate analysis of data.

Gregor Hohpe - Gregor is the author of the Leanpub book Platform Strategy: Innovation Through Harmonization. In this interview, Gregor talks about his new bestselling book, and what he’s been up to since he was last on the podcast.

Christian Hofstetter - Christian is the author of the Leanpub book Playbook Navigating Team Toxins. In this interview, Christian talks about his background and career, his book, and his experience as a writer.

Jeff Sutherland - Jeff is the author of the Leanpub book First Principles in Scrum: Teams That Finish Early Accelerate Faster. In this interview, Jeff talks about his fascinating professional background and career, the origins of both the Scrum and Agile frameworks, and his work as the author of a number of influential books.

Prateek Singh - Prateek is the author of the Leanpub book Scaling Simplified: A Practitioner’s Guide to Scaling Flow. In this interview, Prateek talks about his background and career, Agile and flow, his book, as his work as an author.

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.