BATB score: 9/10 👏 BATB re-reads Best to: easier said than done but yes three great leadership one-minute tricks; clear goals, timely praising, constructive re-directs BATB lingering thought: but does it work with dinosaurs 🦖 🦕 ready to retire in too-big-to-fail conglomerates? it’s my turn now, globally groomed millennials hired to be the change in antique companies 💪 among Gen X legacy Best for: so what kind of leader do you want to be? Best as: playbook when leading a

BATB score: 7/10 RIP Virginia Giuffre; thank you for this memoir, thank you for fighting the #metoo #Epsteinfiles movement, thank you for shedding light on the corrupted powerfuls Best to: know that Jeffrey Epstein is not an anomaly but the norm Best as: case of the decade Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell vs. 500+ underage trafficked girls BATB lingering thought: I don’t know how you wrap your brain to wanting to have children knowing how messed up this world is; white p

BATB score: 9/10 A slap-in-the-face reality self-check book of how to live as is but happier. #AndThenYouDie “We are so materially well off, yet so psychologically tormented in so many low-level and shallow ways.” - common sense made common A book with the most f-words in its sarcastic self-help literature. Best for: people who are finding the meaning of everyday / depressed sad souls, which is truly all of us. Read It!

BATB score: 8/10 Best as: A book on how to work smarter through solving big problems via thinking small Best to: know how to win in a hot dog eating competition. Hysterical. Love the stories. Love the experiments. Best for: seekers of data-driven analysis of random life situations

BATB score: 0.2/10 Proof that books can be outdated. What Tina wish she knew when she was 20 is if she can turn back time to 1978 (when she was literally 20). Best to: A lot has changed, Miss Tina. Best for: skip it.

BATB score: 5.55/10 Best to: “Vagina” once the taboo was breached, it released a torrent of memories, anger, and sorrow Best as: Happy to have sponsored you. Quirky vagina monologues. Eve Ensler’s presenter notes compiled in a book. Watch her speech on YouTube also can. Best for: feminists.

BATB score: 5.2/10 Best as: 52 ways to make peace with the world. Short stories. Quick endings. No action. Best for: self-improvement fanatics

BATB score: 3/10 Spoiler Alert: Thursdays in the morning Best to: Difficult to read. 131 ADHD thoughts of a freakonomics; questioning the world and trying to answer them with supportive but inconclusive economics Best for: those who has read Think Like a Freak and/or any sapiosexual of the freakonomics authors

BATB score: 4/10 apples and oranges, Best to: stories started to repeat; yes, sequels. I comprehend and forgave. Best for: read ‘Think Like a Freak’ first, then we talk

BATB score: 10/10 correcting the misconceptions of the world #factfulness Recommend! A feel GREAT book 10 10 10. Optimism in the world restored. The world is a vast oyster with things that are not as bad as it seems. Best for: colorful graphs/charts lover; buy the hardcover color printed version

BATB score: 10/10 You know how we look for logical people and yet everyone of us is illogical and irrational. And you start to wonder whether the world could really be explained? Well, here’s a great and exciting attempt to explain the unexplainable. Best for: if you were to read one book, read this book.

BATB score: 9/10 Happy to Support. Quotes from 10,000+ strangers of New York. Reminder of how different but yet similar 7 billion homo sapiens are on Planet Earth. Best for: lost stars

BATB score: 3/10 Damn. Steven Hawking’s brain capability redefines all average joe to shame. A reminder to look at the star~ look how they shine for you~ #aliens Difficult to follow. Best for: Star-gazers. Seekers of where do we come from and where are we going. Wait, who are we?

BATB score: 1/10 goodness and he's back True FAD. Got this book in February 2018; all of its content is irrelevant by March 2018. Way too slow to predict the speed of resignation and expulsion of Trump’s administration. Best for: an Instagram post and some likes. Uneventful.

BATB score: 0.6/10 I disapprove this book in its entirety. Angela Duckworth's 6 minutes Ted speech covers the whole content of her book. A book with the most I, me, my, and mine; sharing of her personal experiences which unfortunately are not that interesting. Best for: pure acknowledgement of the book's cover Best as: gifts from a manager to your team members showing that you must have not read a in a while

BATB score: 9.9/10 Legit 10. Hilarious. Written by an ex-Googler. Follow the tips and techniques for guaranteed more hysterical meetings Best for: a New Year's gift / a birthday gift. a book that you leave in the restroom for entertainment passing time while passing gas.

BATB score: 8.9/10 20|60; 20% of a brand’s customers delivers 60%* of its sales #marketsharemarketsharemarketshare 20|80 is dead. Acquisition > Retention. Don't over think FMCG. Listen to me. There's NO loyalty for shampoo. Broad #scale > Precision #niche. How promotional discounts merely push future sales to be today's sales. Best for: every brand managers, FMCG marketeers, cross-functional sales team members to read this 101 book.

BATB score: 9.2/10 “One who has a WHY to live for can bear almost any HOW.” A psychologist explains what went through his mind as a dying Jewish prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. Human survival instinct, adaptation to hunger/pain, the concept of and the lack of hope. Deepdive down to when the Jewish prisoners were finally freed, they ran out to celebrate their freedom for a few hours, and by sundown, came back to sleep in the old camp grounds. Psychotherapeutic story-tel

BATB score: 10/10 Strongly Recommended! Adam Kay's diary when he was serving his 6 years studies and ward life to be an aspiring doctor. You can read the emotions, the stress, and the final decision. Extremely relatable. Isn't it all of us who are trying to excel in our career, keep our partners happy, maintain a social life, keep in touch with family, drink more water, get enough sleep, smile, and be polite? Best for: all of us who’s trying

BATB score: 9.5/10 Reality slap-in-the-face book for all those optimistic Joys from Inside Out to WAKE UP! A reminder that the world has never been fair and how your hope to bring back justice and world peace already made you a loser. “Power” why some people has it - and others don’t. A book about how being smart is never enough, how being friends or liked by everyone gets you nowhere, and why power on top of others is what you should aim to have. Filled with anecdotes from l