Tanaka’s Reading Library

Currently Reading/ Listening:

Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success, Adam Grant
(Textbook) Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan, and the USA, Bernhard Ebbinghaus
Grinding It Out, Ray Kroc
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building, Matt Mochary
Passages, Gail Sheehy
Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever, Alex Kantrowitz

Recently Completed:

(9/10) The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense, Gad Saad
(8.5/10) Models: Attract Women Through Honesty, Mark Manson
(4/10) The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks Than Others Do in 12 Months, Brian P. Moran & Michael Lennington
(5/10) Getting Things Done, David Allen
(9/10) Review Code 7: Cracking the Code for an Epic Life, Bryan R. Johnson

Previously Read/ Listened:

(9/10) Build, Tony Fadell
(9.5/10) A Promised Land, Barack Obama
(8/10) Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, Adam Grant
(9.5/10) Educated, Tara Westover
(10/10) TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking, Chris Anderson
(9/10) But What if We’re Wrong: Thinking about the Present as if it Were the Past, Chuck Klosterman
(10/10) Zero to One, Peter Thiel
(8.5/10) Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company’s Future – and What to Do About It, Tien Tzuo
(8.5/10) Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel Pink
(10/10) Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, Adam Grant
(9/10) Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, Dr. Matthew Walker
(7.5/10) Who: The A Method of Hiring, Geoff Smart & Randy Street
(8.5/10) Principles: Life and Work, Ray Dalio
(8.5/10) The Intelligent Investor, Ben Graham
(10/10) The Power Of Body Language: Instantly Discover What’s Really Going On Around You, Joe Navarro
(3.5/10) The Burnout Generation, Anne Helen Petersen
(7/10) The 10x Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure, Grant Cardone
(6.5/10) Emotional Intelligence 2.0, Travis Bradberry
(8.5/10) Skin in the Game, Nassim Taleb
(9/10) The Productivity Project, Chris Bailey
(7.5/10) Rejection Proof, Jia Jiang
(9/10) Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Ashlee Vance
(7/10) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Harari
(7.5/10) Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcom Gladwell
(9.5/10) Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World, Mitch Prinstein
(9.5/10) Age Wave: The Challenges and Opportunities of Aging America, Ken Dychtwald
(9.5/10) Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
(2/10) You Are You: How to Embrace Your Personality and Manage People Effectively, Scott Moore Green
(7/10) The Lost Art of Good Conversation: A Mindful Way to Connect with Others and Enrich Everyday Life, Sakyong Mipham
(3.5/10) Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team, Simon Sinek
(6/10) Joe Biden: Promise Me, Dad, Joe Biden
(8/10) The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business, Josh Kaufman
(10/10) The Longevity Economy: Unlocking the World’s Fastest-Growing, Most Misunderstood Market, Joseph F. Coughlin
(6/10) (2nd time: 6.5/10) The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever, Michael Stanier
(8.5/10) The Four Tendencies, Gretchen Rubin
(9.5/10) Becoming, Michelle Obama
(7.5/10) Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life, Albert Liebermann and Hector Garcia
(9/10) The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, Barack Obama
(9.5/10) Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, Dan Ariely
(4/10) How to Learn Almost Anything in 48 Hours, Tansel Ali
(10/10) How to Win Friends And Influence People, Dale Carnegie
(6.5/10) How We Talk: The Inner Workings of Conversation, N.J. Enfield
(8.5/10) The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, Mari Kondo
(7/10) Has Anyone Seen the President?, Michael Lewis
(5/10) The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis
(9.5/10) The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson
(8.5/10) When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
(9/10) (Fiction) The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion
(7/10) Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, Charles Wheelan
(3/10) Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life, Michael Lewis
(4.5/10) The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen
(5/10) Seeing What’s Next, Clayton Christensen
(6/10) How to Win at the Sport of Business, Mark Cuban
(5.5/10) Mind Gym, Gary Mack

In Stock:

How Will You Measure Your Life?, Clayton Christensen
Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Road to Character, David Brooks
The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time, Arianna Huffington
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, Michael Lewis
The Narcissism Epidemic, Jean Twenge
The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse, Mohamed A. El-Erian
Self-Made Success, Shaan Patel
Nice Guys Finish First, Doug Sandler
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story, Michael Lewis
The Money Culture, Michael Lewis
The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World’s Healthiest People, Dan Buettner
The Telomere Effect, Elissa Epel and Elizabeth Blackburn
Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity, Michael Lewis
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, Michael Lewis
Next: The Future Just Happened, Michael Lewis
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design, Charles Montgomery
The Start-up of You, Reid Hoffman
The Art of Thinking Clearly, Rolf Dobelli
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, Jonathan Haidt
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol Dweck
How Emotions Are Made, Prof. Lisa Feldman
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World, Wade Graham
Delivering Happiness, Tony Hsieh
Heroes Among Us, John Quinones
Hit Refresh, Satya Nadella
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, Michael Lewis
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days, Jake Knapp
Let My People Go Surfing, Yvon Chouinard
Hidden America, Jeanne Laskas
The Social Animal, David Brooks
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Daniel Pink
Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny, Hill Harper
The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place, Hill Harper
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Jordan Peterson
Stronger, Jeff Bauman
The Happiness Equation, Neil Pasricha
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, Mahzarin Banaji
13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, Amy Morin
A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
Better Than Before, Gretchen Rubin
Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want, Nicholas Epley
Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood, Michael Lewis
(Fiction) Two Steps Forward, Graeme Simsion
The Marshmallow Test: Why Self-Control Is the Engine of Success, Walter Mischel
Story Driven: You Don’t Need to Compete When You Know Who You Are, Bernadette Jiwa
Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Guide to the Startup World, Rand Fishkin
Measure What Matters, John Doerr
Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life, Francesca Gino
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility, Patty McCord
Ask a Manager, Alison Green
The Myth of the Nice Girl, Fran Hauser
The Pentagon’s Brain, Annie Jacobsen
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Living with a SEAL, Jesse Itzler
Insanely Simple, Ken Segall
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion, Paul Bloom