BATB score: 7/10 🥹 Best as: a forensic psychiatrist sharing her notes from speaking to 11 inmates: serial killers, pedophiles, murderer, stalker, abuser; pleading for a chance to hold our judgement and hear them out; this book could have been a 10/10 if it was written by a writer VS a doctor (select only 5/11 stories, thriller narration, highlight the who-what) Best for: for aspirational forensic psychiatrists > 11 case studies Best to: “society needs to condemn a little les

BATB score: 10/10 💯👏 *have I been living under a rock to not have come across this 1997 masterpiece? OMG* Jean-Dominique Bauby life was soaring as Editor-in-Chief of French magazine Elle. In 1995, Bauby, 43, had a stroke that resulted with locked-in syndrome where his whole body is paralyzed and he could only blink his left eyelid. His mind was 100% fully functioning but everything else is frozen. A speech therapist reads out the alphabet where Bauby would blink at the lett

BATB score: 6/10 🫣 good stuff but needles in a haystack Best as: why your pupil dilates and why you look down when you flirt with someone you like; and how to catch a lie by only observing eye movement > doubles as a cool party trick, two truth and one lie winner forever Best for: how to catch your boyfriend cheating with just his eye movement > remembering image looks up, remembering sound looks sideways, remembering feelings looks down Best to: the most important business

BATB score: 9/10 🥹 sending unsolicited emails to Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg asking for an interview may get you a hand-written rejection which is already content material 💯 Best as: diary of a 19-year-old dropout getting an exclusive interview with Maya Angelou, Bill Gates, and Lady Gaga 👏 via leveraging the “third door”connections aka persistence; never try never know The first door: the main entrance - where 99% of the people wait around hoping to get in The seco

BATB score: 2/10 😡 omg shut up already! you know that one old leadership who kept talking, mentioning hallow frameworks, shouting some tacky quotes “differentiate or die”, dumping more business terminology and acronyms where other words would have been sufficient, feeling like he is the smartest person in the room, but it’s only shit coins he’s holding on to? Best to: a complete leadership playbook with all the frameworks you can reference to - enough for a lifetime, good fo

BATB score: 10/10 👏 *reader discretion advised* this book is a 10/10 but it is not for the faint-hearted - definitely not for everyone; it’s sick, it’s psycho, it’s gross, it’s traumatic, BUT it’s a true story Best as: nothing that Netflix can ever make is scarier than true life itself 💀 BATB lingering thought: thank you for reminding me that this world is a scary place; people are the scariest living things Best to: Gregg Olsen is a journalist and he writes true crimes; le

BATB score: 8.5/10 👀 Best for: raise your hand if you agree with any part this statement: I, personally, feel that my attention span is fleeting, that I have difficulty concentrating, that my relationship with social media is toxic, and that my wrists ache from holding a mobile phone up too long. 🙆🏻‍♀️ Best to: the book acknowledges that we all have shorter attention spans and more difficulty with concentration; the book then explores twelve potential causes to why this is

BATB score: 4/10 🙄 Best as: proof that every well-known-enough person should write an autobiography as one’s passive income and legacy Best for: when who you marry out-shadowed you Best to: “separated but not divorced; we ride together, we die together, bad marriage for life” so what’s an entanglement? Best quotes: “Fame might get you company, but it ain’t always good company. And it’s certainly not real love or real respect.” “If you have a blowup with someone you really ch

BATB Score: 9.5/10 🎨🖌️ Best for: we all need this book - fresh grads, midlife crisis, early retirement, Forbes 40 under 40 - we all need to take a day and just complete the workbook (at least once and forever more over and over again) BATB lingering thought: -0.5 points because there were moments in the book that I was like, 🙄 I understand already please stop repeating yourself Best to: why wasn’t this taught in school?! this is critical! emergency! paging Dr. Beat emergen

BATB score: 4/10 🙄 a complete waste of time after page 42 onwards Best to: needle in a haystack must search far and wide for the good bits in a bunch of wikipedia word vomit Best as: there’s only two good bits (1) Pick the right industry under the best macro trends for booster shine: “Look for the beach with the biggest waves. Market dynamics trump individual performance, so give yourself the best chance by going where the opportunities are the greatest.” (2) Dump your poor

BATB score: 8/10 👏 *reader discretion advised* this is not a book, this is a white paper research on how homo sapiens can better communicate with other homo sapiens *advanced reading level required* there are some very good chapters and some very meh chapters; the long, various his/her/their anecdotes makes it boring at times Best as: very well-researched, extremely academic, theoretical dump, nerdy read Best for: Yuval Noah Harari would love this book as it is advocating fo

BATB Score: 4/10 🫥 “The Tipping Point” 2000 vs “Revenge of the Tipping Point” 2024 24 years, wah, what a disappointment 🫠 Best for: BATB really wanted to love revenge book, was really excited and hopeful, but this book wasn’t giving 😢 Best to: key takeaway > the tipping point is when 1/3 of the target market audience is on board, you will feel hopeless, hopeless, nothing, nothing and then boom BATB lingering thought: make sure you stick around until 33% TAM adoption to wit

BATB score: 2/10 🔪🔥 Gregg Olsen 2024 - spent 9 months trying to solve a “murder” of an Amish Wife and son; an “incident” that happened back in 1977! Best as: why this dusty old case where not only the victims are dead, but the suspects and witnesses are also either dead or very old to remember what happened 40+ years ago - whyyyyy Best to: 400 pages of 9 months documenting and speaking with all the suspects and witnesses; trying to jigsaw puzzle and solve the case Best for:

BATB Score: 8/10 🕵️‍♀️ “People die too easily. It should be more painful, and take longer.” - a glimpse into the minds of killers Best as: Between Good and Evil: A Master Profiler's Hunt for Society's Most Violent Predators; the firsthand experiences of a criminal profiler through the gruesome violent homicides and savage rape cases 💯 Best for: a life in a life of a serial killer profiler, detective, forensics, cop, psychologist combine Best to: this book could have been a

BATB Score: 8.5/10 👏 *reader discretion advise* this is not a book; this is a white-paper research document proposing one single premise that mobile phone x the internet x social media, all from 2010 onwards is creating an anxious generation with weakening mental health and detrimental life consequences Best for: read this book if this is you - “The phone-based life makes it difficult for people to be fully present with others when they are with others, and to sit silently w

BATB score: 4/10 🙄 it seems like celebrities are writing their memoirs to tell their story, remain relevant, self-reflect, publicly confess, and make some passive income; quick wins 💯 Best to: you need an intermediate level knowledge on who Demi Moore is to be able to enjoy and relate to her memoirs Best for: did you know that Demi Moore dated Ashton Kusher? if you don’t know nor don’t really care, then skip this book Best as: broken family, rape, sex scenes, divorce, movie

BATB Score: 2/10 why is this book so boring 🥱 Best as: this book discusses a single premise that every second of ours and everybody else’s micro decisions makes us who we are today Best to: that even if we turn back time and recount every decisions, we can not engineer to be the same person BATB lingering thought: butterfly effect: the notion that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could trigger a tornado in Texas Best for: “no man ever steps in the same river twice; f

BATB score: 7/10 🤕 *reader discretion advised: this is not a book but a white-paper research making a sole proposal that serial killers, mass shooter, psychopaths, etc, can all be pre-empted and predicted if we take domestic violence cases more seriously* “You could certainly say about half the cases of mass shootings are extreme incidents of domestic violence.” In other words, it’s not that domestic violence predicts mass shootings. It’s that mass shootings, more than half

BATB score: 9/10 🥹👏 *reader discretion advised* not for the gentle souls but hear me out, “The only way to stop it, is to find a way to tell, and that the very best revenge, is to survive and survive well.” Best as: telling her own story; since 4-years-old, Shy Keenan was physically and sexually abused and prostituted to paedophiles by her stepdad, for 10+ years Social Services didn’t save her, and finally at 40-years-old she put her stepdad in jail; today, she runs Phoenix

BATB score: 4.5/10 ⭕️ and that’s why monks have no friends (and lives in a forest) 🌳🙏 Best to: the way the book is written is conversational, he said, he said, then he said, so it’s like you’re eavesdropping to a 1-1 discussion without the audience in mind; it’s all over the place, where’s the meat, what’s the point, where am I? BATB lingering thought: I hate a panel discussion whether that’s 1-1 or worst yet 1-3, listening in to a conversation is not how humans best intake