BATB score: 4.5/10 😒 Adam Kay, I love you but this book was definitely trying too hard to be funny; the overloading cheap jokes on every page, here and there and everywhere, made this book painful to read Best to: be grateful for our healthcare and medical advancement from our historical medieval (sparkle times) doctor's recommendation to consume a hot cup of pee 🟡 and a pinch of poo 💩 when you feel unwell #healingproperties Best for: collectors of Adam Kay's books 📚 Best

BATB score: 10/10 💕 the best autobiography written in mankind, the making, the struggles, the crack, the enlightenment of Will Smith 😎 very clever that Will Smith wrote this book, I respect his legacy even more 💪 Best to: it's about not wanting to be second in anything, about being a dreamer with wings that outshines your family/marriage, and about 'enough' happiness after tremendous success Best for: if you think Will Smith was a great actor in the movie 'The Pursuit of H

BATB score: 3/10 😡 *and this score is me being nice; unpopular book review alert* redundancy at it's best, he said, she said, same shit Best to: this book is like a consultant; thoroughly researched (did their homework), professionally written/presented (tactful), saying all the right things, but OMG they're just quotes, nice concepts, impractical, fake, and fluffy OK?! Best for: plenty of instagramable quotes - urgh, it's so fake, I can not. Honestly, I believe I tackle my

BATB score: 7.6/10 🧐 well-researched, well-written, thoroughly analysed groundwork on how being a generalist makes you see the bigger picture and allows you to creatively strategise more than specialists; a very nerdy book #nerdalert Best to: serious documentation and experiments on how generalist rules, scrutinising the common belief that favors specialisation; yet redundant with the last few chapters quite wishy washy 💦 Best for: a lot of tech / business key opinion leade

BATB score: 9.2/10 👩‍🎓👏💯 Bill Gates' and Barack Obama's 2018 recommended read 💯 spot on - I am so sorry that I took so long to get to it (4 years to be exact) #betterlatethannever This book is almost a 10/10. Just a very very small point. At times, the narration was a bit slow and the ending chapters were less strong compared to the other chapters. Best to: a brilliant heartfelt memoir - it's about family values and ties, mormonism, beliefs, faith, education, self-discov

BATB score: 3/10 🐢 only business schools and leadership programs memorizes strategic principles eg. OGSM (objectives, goals, strategy, and measure statement) Best to: P&G is such a Gen X success story; Gen Z 'start-ups, ventures, hustles' can not really benefit from this book's do's and don't's Best for: CEOs of global FMCG/CPG conglomerates esp when you are in charge of setting business strategies from merger and acquisition deals, supplier negotiations, consumer-product in

BATB score: 8/10 🔥 The Kim's regime in North Korea is a perfectly executed marketing propaganda yet one that is difficult to keep when the new generations start seeing otherwise; likeas any monarchy's blinded loyalty and religious miracle tell-tales, nothing can withstand time. Best to: North Korea's anecdotes and defector's escape stories continues to amaze me; it has been 30+ years of starvation, I really want to know how this would end. The answer can only be an internal-

BATB score: 6.7/10 👩‍💻🧑‍💻 💯 % important but not written for the general public; maybe if we write a more casual version and call it "Why You Should Not Date Your Boss", it may be more well-received la Best to: "Sleeping with my boss was a big mistake. I own it. Well, half of it. Problem was, I paid for all of it." and so SHE had to quit to save the HE in power; urgh so unfair! Best for: "What hurts the victim the most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence

BATB score: 8/10 💛 some chapters were exceptionally awesome while other chapter were just like okay okay la - I personally love love chapter 7 "Give Face" and chapter 8 "Check Your Weirdness" #veryimportantindeed Best to: the book is about how to be the bigger person in dealing with everyday conflicts from listening more, to the right way to say sorry, to how to save their face as well as your face #legit Best for: if your role and responsibility includes stakeholders manage

BATB score: 10/10 💯 a critical and an essential read on mental work-life balance (as physical work-life is so yesterday's concept) Best to: you know how work continues to linger in your mind on weekends? ya, that's no good; unfortunately in some cultures it is called 'dedication', 'devotion', 'determination', or even 'above and beyond' - so embarrassing, i know #badinfluence Best for: don't brag about working overtime, over the weekend, or pulling all-nighters, it sucks and

BATB score: 4/10 😴 This book is a 101 manual on "how to conduct a silicon-valley-style product initiation sprints" aka fancy offsite activity for the elite c-levels and directors Best to: uninterrupted 5 intensive days of problem cracking, idea sketches, product prototype, and focus group feedback = wala the new miracle cure! it only works if the group comprise of over-qualified leaders who really wanted to make a difference +110% invested in the company #notme Best for: out

BATB score: 9/10 💚 *disclaimer* I love Daniel H. Pink. He writes about such interesting behavioural psychological topics: drive, when, regrets - his research fascinates me about how everything can be so constructively explained and optimize for the better 👏 #dayum #socool #loveyou Best to: it's a thorough research on the role of, the types of, the ways to handle, and the ways to optimize regrets; #legit learnt a lot! Fun fact: did you know that 3rd place winners ['at least'

BATB score: 7/10 👹🖤 recommended by the ousted ex-prime minister of Thailand - Thaksin Shinawatra - the detailed fundamentals to his current philosophy of governing and living 👏 Best to: a critical book to read if you want to become a politician - to kill or to be killed, how the fox befriended the tiger, believing in dharma, meditate, pick your battles, money is just a means to an end, and be extremely greedy for success 💯 Best for: if you believe in "winners take all", h

BATB score: 7/10 🏙 Adam Neumann, WeWork co-founder, though a billion dollar loser is still a billionaire 💸 - yes, fortune favours the bold Best to: sales skills, extruding confidence, charismatic persona and interpersonal skills trump actual business numbers in gaining trust from co-founders and billion dollar investors Best for: a critical book for aspiring entrepreneurs, start-ups innovators, and IPO dreamers to learn about the hustles and pitfalls of a one-person leaders

BATB score: 7/10 🌺 “There I was, a spy of sorts, hoping not to plant bombs but to plant ideas.” Best to: Suki Kim in an ultimate mid-life crisis (a broken heart obviously) and meaning-of-life quest by disguising as a missionary English teacher for the sole elite male school in Pyongyang Best for: anyone with an obsession and fascination for North Korea who has read >3 fight or flight flee stories; this book is another POV of a volunteered teacher BATB tips: the best North Ko

BATB score: 6/10 🤎 "How to Change" Katy Milkman is besties with "Grit" Angela Duckworth - and that's why their books speak of one another quite often; my bestie and your bestie sit down by di fire 🎼 Best for: if you have not read "When" Daniel H. Pink, "Grit" Angela Duckworth, "Atomic Habits" James Clear, and "The Power of Habit" Charles Duhigg, then this book takes the best bits from each of these 'other books' and make one book compilation #TADA BATB critique: I was not a

BATB score: 6/10 💛 "Assault is Not an Accident" - just because she blacked-out does not mean you-stranger have a right to penetrate her #duh unbelievable Stanford elite graduates could be so stupid Best to: a very long read about the 18-months journey from day of blackout assault, to court filing and trials, recovery/therapy/insomnia and final statements of Chanel Miller - making a case for all assaulted victims 👏 Best for: it's an important book but it's just very long and

BATB score: 4/10 🤷‍♀️ after surviving the horrendous concentration camp, Viktor Frankl had to relearn how to be happy; proceeding back to his normal life as a psychiatrist / philosopher lecturer but this time covering deeper topics on the Meaning of Life (from a Holocaust survivor POV); this book is his famous 3 lectures Best to: intensive Viktor Frankl's 2.5 hours monologue; a philosophy university class at its best, you know how the professor is for sure saying something s

BATB score: 7/10 🆕 Greg McKeown's 3rd book (2021) after his huge global success with BATB's fav "Essentialism" (2014) and, though less famous, yet another one of BATB's fav "Multipliers" (2010); a true example of less (with the right few) is more 👏 Best to: read Greg McKeown's "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less" (2014) first and foremost; no questions ask Best for: anyone who can relate to this statement, “we are conditioned over the course of our lifetimes to b

BATB score: 9/10 🤎 Naval Ravikant is an American entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder, chairman and former CEO of AngelList. His net worth is $69 million. He shares his practical visions on Twitter. Best to: a collection of Naval Ravikant's pragmatic vision in more comprehensive and actionable manner; damn someday I wish someone adore me enough to write an almanac of my scattered thoughts Best for: questioners of what is the 'meaning of life' in terms of wealth an