jeremy snyder's meta|remix

like anything important in life, stick with it!

i did this in reserve. i read superfreakanomics first. but now i finally got to read the original freakanomics.  Read the rest of this entry »

this was another in my series of reading in finnish to keep the language up. i got this off librivox as well (props to the excellent finnish reader tuija aalto). the book seems like it will be a journey book, and it is, but not in the way you might expect. it’s more about a boy’s journey into adulthood, from country life to sophisticated city life, than it is about getting there. overall, i enjoyed it, but not as much as rautatie.

want to get more done? listen to the jeromecast for a thought about sleep hacking.

i just finished reading a book in finnish, called rautatie (the railroad).  Read the rest of this entry »

this is another one of my childhood favorites, white fang.  Read the rest of this entry »

check it out here – new respect for michael bloomberg

another one i got off librivox…

call of the wild is a book that i loved as a kid. i’m sort of on a kick to check out books that had an impact on me as a kid or teenager. it’s a nice experience to go back and read this again and experience it with a different frame of reference. as a kid, this book just brought about the wanderlust in me. as an adult, i appreciate more of the emotional depth in the book.

another one of the classics i hadn’t read, so i picked this one up:

treasure island by robert louis stevenson

overall, good fun and an enjoyable read/listen.

note: i actually got this off librivox, second recording version. i have to say props to the reader – this is one of the better librivox recordings i’ve heard! get it on itunes as well.

thought mercenaries were a thing of the past? listen up and think again…