The Leanpub Frontmatter Podcast interview with gerald-weinberg, conducted by Len Epp and published December 19, 2017, stands as one of Weinberg's last recorded interviews before his death in gerald-weinberg-death-2018 eight months later. The Frontmatter series focused on authors who published through leanpub, the self-publishing platform Weinberg had adopted after the wind-down of dorset-house-publishing.
The interview covers Weinberg's transition to self-publishing, his writing process as described in weinberg-on-writing-2006 and the fieldstone-method, and his views on what had changed—and what had not—in software development over his career. Weinberg discusses his late-career works including change-artistry-2013 and agile-impressions-2013, and reflects on the community of practice he had built through events like aye-conference and workshops like psl-workshop-founded-1974.
As one of his final substantial interviews, the Leanpub Frontmatter conversation has unusual documentary value. It captures Weinberg's voice, his continued intellectual vitality, and his perspective on a career spanning from ibm-and-project-mercury-1956-1969 to the self-publishing era—a trajectory that saw software development transform almost beyond recognition while Weinberg's core commitments to human judgment, systems thinking, and congruent-behavior remained stable.