BATB score: 3.5/10 RIP Twitter Twitter CEOs: Jack Dorsey -> Evan Williams -> Dick Costolo -> Jack Dorsey (again) Best friends, lots of alcohol on a boat, ego-power-play, frenemies, secret meetings, Bill Campbell, revenge, Oprah, and fame. Typical start-up storyline #tbh Best to: find out about Twitter founders' conflicts via some online 10-minute-read bullet-point snippets Best for: nonfiction written in a fiction screenplay; honestly how did Nick Bilton know so much #CCTV? B

BATB score: 3.14/10 Dear Bill Gates, this recommended book of yours resembles more of a doctorate research paper in conditional probability and flawed predictions. 🧐 Best for: anyone pursuing a PhD in Probability Theory Best as: it's a research paper with over 450-page explanation on Bayes' Theorem about prediction and probability split into 13 life examples/chapters. Best to: you know how some things you've learnt at school does not make any difference in your life? Before

BATB score: 10/10 ⭐️ Best Management Bible Ever! ⭐️ Spencer Johnson's style of storytelling as in Who Moved My Cheese series: concise and crisp (without the 🧀 maze) Best for: any manager who cares about being a better people manager. As for those who believe he/she is already the best manager ever, go love yourself. 🤬 Best to: be reminded of goal-alignment, sincere praising, and constructive feedback with any human being. Best as: a departure gift for those result-only-orie

BATB score: 7.5/10 This book moved my heart, brain, and feet. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett agrees. Best to: read the book from cover to cover in one sitting then go buy yourself some NIKE shoes and NKE stocks Best as: a reminder that doing something out of pure passion always wins #ShoeDog is a person dedicated to designing and fabricating shoes—and selling them 👟 Best for: I honestly could care less about shoes but now NIKE deeply speaks to me; a book that would impact you

BATB score: 0/10 Zero to None* it’s so bad it hurts. Unfinished random thoughts of uncle Thiel that failed to convey any meaning. Fragmented paragraphs and loosely described concepts, it’s like he’s sleep-talking 💤 social distancing with every sentence ❌ Best for: Uncle Peter Thiel and Uncle Peter Thiel alone #tablefor1 Best to: live like this book never exists #unforgivable #bookstagram Best as: proof that not all successful business founders are great writers (Thiel co-fou

BATB score: i5-9600K / 10 Classic old-school management book with all time favourite Maslow's hierarchy, mid-year appraisal-review, and 1-1s. #booksince1983 #stilltrue Best for: any one of Andy Grove's children or ex-colleague to rewrite this book. Good stuff definitely but wordy, unstructured with outdated anecdotes. Best as: a sacred original to all management books that had follow suit Best to: read Powerful by Patty McCord and/or Trillion Dollar Coach instead Fun Fact: An

BATB score: 7.654321 / 10 🚀 Best as: today's real life Iron Man, with a bullied childhood, insane dreams - Mission to Mars, deep pockets, an arrogant attitude, trophy wives, and twins, triplets, and X Æ A-12 Best to: get ready for super detailed pages of Zip2, X dot-com aka Paypal, SolarCity, SpaceX, and Tesla - Harvard Business School equivalent cases #IAmAnEngineerNow Best to: save the human race from self-imposed or accidental annihilation 👽👾🤖 Fun Fact: 149.9B, 85B, 79

BATB score: 3.14/10 yes, Ray Dalio, 18 billion USD net worth, richest hedge fund firm wrote, wrote this #Principles #RayDalio #bookstagram yes, Bill Gates recommends this #BillGates #GateNotes BUT NO, don't bother. It's like reading a bullet point with sub-bullet points with sub-sub-bullet points on and on. The bullet points are redundant and repetitive. A very torturing (book?) NASA manual to read. #DontLetAnyOneTellYouOtherwise Best for: the some good parts to be re-written

BATB score: 8.9/10 💫🙆 A+ insightful e-commerce blueprint. Mastermind's playbook on why Amazon.com stock price is 3000++ USD and why Jeff Bezos is the richest human in the world. Best for: #Shopee #Lazada #JDCentral #Tokopedia #Bukalapak senior management to read this; oh sorry, that's right you don't read #gutfeelsleadership Best to: deepdive into how Bezos foresees a challenger, quickly dumps shitload of money into a competing business model (which was not meant to last),

BATB score: 10/10 🧜‍♀️💫🧚 How Robert Iger started from the bottom now he's here (Disney Chairman WOOT!). A collection of all the key tipping points he has learnt throughout his life. #InnovateorDIE Best as: a reminder that being a good employee making your way up the typical corporate ladder is an undervalued and under-appreciated lifestyle. Robert Iger's annual salary is 65.7M as Disney CEO. His net worth is 690M. Best to: remember that great leaders stay humble #stopbragg

BATB score: 7.5/10 How Netflix would have been a shampoo company and its journey to introduce "binge watching" and "Netflix and chill". Best as: a "long story short" from one entrepreneur to another; it was never about getting rich - it was about the thrill of doing good work, the pleasure of solving problems. Best to: know that startup is a lonely place, best to have a best friend entrepreneur who's doing this with you. Best for: entrepreneur wannabes. Nobody Knows Anything.

BATB score: 8/10 Being a ‘Facebook’ manager is a privilege. The skillsets and the techniques suggested requires high reader discretion. Actual application in common day 'any other company' management may not be worth the effort. #unempoweredmembers Best for: any other company manager or manager-to-be to check it out and try to adapt as much as it still make sense #FakeItNeverMakeIt Best as: not all company are made equal: OKR vs KPI, self-driven vs salary-driven, fixed vs gro

BATB score: 4/10 🙄👎🥱 10/10 for the book title #clickbait 4/10 for the numerous self-anecdotes #selfpraise and under-developed concepts. At most common sense techniques in business. This book deserves to die. Best to: read the elaborated negotiating principles in "How to Talk to Anyone" - Leil Lowndes; and the office politics principles in "Power" - Jeffrey Pfeffer Best as: toilet reads, each topic takes like 3 minutes to read and 3 seconds to digest the minimal gist that e

BATB score: 10/10 💚🤑💚 Legendary old school classics on how to escape the middle class paycheck-pay-bills Rat Race 🐭 via making money work for you. Never gets old. Best for: anyone who has been caught saying “I am waiting for my next promotion or year-end bonus” or anyone living on paychecks, you are working hard yes? but are you working smart? Best as: here’s the plan. paycheck to savings to assets (stocks, bonds, real estate) to passive income (interests, dividends, rent

BATB score: 4/10 🥱 Business case examples were all from ancient 1950s - okay, to be fair, the book was written in 2001; but that’s like light years ago grand-daddy, millennial me can not relate Best to: just read the summary pages of each chapter for free at the bookstores Best as: okay, the concept on Level 5 Leadership and First Who, Then What still makes a lot of sense - omg 20 years later 😱 Best for: bragging rights at a networking event if someone says “The book that d

BATB score: 2/10 🙄 I would have to say that your sentence structure and narration is a little bit off. It’s like you tried to cover the history and accomplishments of a person per chapter concisely but yet the part you chose to bold wasn’t making the point you intended. Best to: skip it in its entirety; turn a blind eye and just walk the other way. Best as: why was this book part of a reading list for the ‘innovation’ module from a distinguished MBA curriculum in the UK agai

BATB score: 7/10 All profits from the sale of this book go to NHS Charities Together and The Lullaby Trust. 100 ways to say thank you especially through this covid pandemic. Best to: know that NHS in the UK is 100% free even if you need cancer treatment, need brain surgery, or need to be on hospice care for months Best as: a reminder of how free and easily accessible healthcare is a basic human right; and yet I wonder where has all our tax money gone? oh right, a shitload por

BATB score: 8/10 👑 Back in 1532, Machiavelli wrote a 'How to be a Powerful Prince for Dummy Princes 101'. Best for: a very delicate playbook on how to manage/lobby your power game for existing and newly conquered colonies, loyal servants, and abolished toxic minds; topics are extremely relevant to today's office politics (except the 'killing those who hate you' part) Best as: a how-to political manual; from corrupting with soldiers, keeping noblemen in line, soliciting an ad

BATB score: 6/10 😒 Best as: okay but not wow. Scott Galloway being Scott Galloway. Analysing the world pre-during-post coronavirus on business and stock investment. Nothing that you didn't already know. Best for: you to invest in GAFA stocks if you haven't - Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple for long-long-term growth Best to: also check out AirBnB, Zoom, Uber, and Carnival Corp stocks; oh, the book says, basically, anything that booms because of covid shall continues to be

BATB score: 4.5/10 *blah blah blah talk* Best to: study it than read it - more like a course work textbook than a casual read OR an orientation manual on how to be 'good' Chief Product Manager 101 Best for: if you are an aspiring Product Manager or conquering such career path, this book is both a 101 and a reminder of your core job (in case you've forgotten them); okay to skip this book if you are pursuing any other career ambitions Best as: seriously though, how many of us r