BATB score 6.6/10 😴 Started out exceptionally strong on the basics to business and blitzscaling; unfortunately, things went downhill from Part III onwards… Best to: Reid Hoffman is a legit business guru who writes well in conveying business concepts; from his latest 2021 work “Masters of Scale”, this oldie 2018 book proves that Hoffman does write better every year or so Best for: business students as university course required read - a perfect mixture of principles, business

BATB score: 10/10 🏆 the most important money book in mankind about having 'enough' and so anything more is mere incremental but I am already comfortable Best to: clarity in 'JOMO' joy of missing out when your friends post on social media about their high gains on crypto and/or stock investment as it's probably because of pure luck that can not be repeated Best for: all of us; questioner of 'meaning of life' and one's relationship with money Best as: the best investment strat

BATB score: 8/10 🕵️ easiest read in mankind. thank you Ray Dalio for dumbing the principles down for us to understand what you are trying to say 🙏 Best to: I feel like Ray Dalio is trying to squeeze out every money making opportunity while disgusting the attempt as 'the building of one's legacy' and 'sharing of one's learnings' #inspirational; this book is freaking expensive while the content is like itsy bitsy Best for: raise your hand if you believed "Principles" by Ray D

BATB score: 8/10 👩‍🦰 well-written 👏 legit / strong analysis of sexism from child's play to C-level dynamics to everyday balancing career vs family; the numerous women-centric expectations, burden, and challenges just to be considered as equal to men Best to: women leadership, breaking the glass ceiling via leading by example; Sheryl Sandberg's legacy aka linkedin profile in a format of a book Best for: mothers juggling a successful career and quality time with family; I co

BATB score: 6.7/10 ☂️ a very niche book on design flaws, design frameworks, and practical designs catering to humans' common sense use Best to: blame the machine and the design! they are at fault when humans had to take some time to read the manuals to comprehend 'how to turn on/off device' when it should have been intuitive #duh Best for: product designers in the making of user-centric devices Best as: the examples about the 4 table stove knobs, the push/pull door, the QWERT

BATB score: 5/10 💤 Best to: you know that one annoying old uncle that all of us have? this book is like that old uncle trying to share some life lessons with you, he started out strong with good intentions definitely, yet he went on and on repeating himself so at the end it was wishy washy and you just want him to stop Best for: wisdom and road-to-happiness 101 Best as: don't bother - allow me to summarise this book for you in four points below *The Four Agreements* 1. Be Im

BATB score: 7.7/10 🇺🇸 this book makes you proud to be Asian #asianpride Best to: a book that more than half of the world's population can relate 🌏 61% of the world to be exact - I am just that kind of Asian 🤓; our tough love upbringings, the American culture shock, our parents' expectations of a thousand successes, the "Pursuing your dreams is for losers. Doing what you love is how you become homeless." Best for: 'have yet to make your parents proud' Asians, Asian immigra

BATB score: 6.7/10 🤧 a legit good book about dealing with life's struggles through psychologists-style talking-it-through: drinking problem, break-ups, unhappiness, sickness and death; yet the book's narration was long and slow Best to: reading this book equates to 10 in-depth sessions with a therapist - congratulations, do did done; it's about the therapist, her patients, her therapist, and his patients with legit therapist comments and recommendations throughout Best for:

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'