BATB score: 4/10 Sheryl Sandberg says this book is "Magnificent". This book is not even close to being magnificent in its slightest definition. #rollmyeyes A very difficult read #6Hours with chapters divided in no clear logic and with each chapter covering 10+ topics in no supportive or build-up order. Such a pity as there was some good shit there - unfortunately very scattered in thought. Throughout these 250+ pages, only 5 mini-anecdotes were interesting enough for me to sh

BATB score: 5/10 a collection of Greta Thunberg's climate crisis speeches. This is proof that frequency matters. She has only 1 message: "wake up" to the climate CRISIS (not climate change - no reality nor urgency there). Know the core science, <8.5 years left until Earth uses all of its 420 gigatonnes of CO2 quota. Fail and Earth will exceed >1.5+ Celsius with Y2030 incurring irreversible chain reactions beyond all homo sapiens' control. Leaders do something now (so we can g

BATB score: 9.9/10 Happy to read, happier while reading and happiest to have read. Best for: Ali Wong's fanclubs who LOL or ROFL to her Baby Cobra and Hard Knock Wife stand-ups. You MUST watch those Netflix stand-ups first! Best to: listen to her read her book to you [Ali Wong narrated the audiobook herself]. And just turn the pages along for sentimental reasons. Random note: I love how her husband gets to write the last 10 pages of her book. Her husband is gold!

BATB score: 10/10 my heart cries. That's the funny thing about life. A concept of delayed gratification where one suffers for X+ years for X times more pay, more benefits, or nirvana: associates to partners, minions to C-levels, students to doctors. Not knowing that we could just die a few steps before the finish line. And how now to live when you don't know whether you have <1, =1, >1 year left. This unknown is the most depressing. my heart cries to know that one day his dau

BATB score: 6/10 damn it Michelle! this book is such a tactful way to compliment your husband and humbly brag about yourself through 450 pages of paperback portrait #okaykaa Best to: listen to Michelle Obama narrate her own audiobook and multitask with other important things in life. 19 hours at 2X speed = 9.5 hours of become, became, become, and still becoming more #mindfatigue #isufferedalot Best for: true fans of the Obamas and idolizers of Michelle Obama [there's a lot of

BATB score: 4.0/10 RIP 4P's (1960) and Hello WTH 4C's (2018) Dear Philip Kotler, just because the world has changed does not mean that you can 4P's, 7P's, 4C's, 3O's, 5A's preach us. Kotler is a professor. He writes textbooks. He is not a Marketing Director nor CMO. He recommends brands to create an APP to solicit community and advocacy (chapter 11). Nope. Trust me. Not all brands need an APP. CODE 200: legit updates in there but I pity all young minds who would now have to m

BATB score: 10/10 Pure bliss. One of the most concise, easy to read, simple to relate self-improvement books. Written by the one and only Ma'am Oprah Winfrey! You know how self-help books can be (1) annoying with its 1 2 3 step-hop plan that no one on Earth is disciplined enough to practice anyway; (2) and disgusting with its #blessed running in lavender fields fake dogma (oh just wake up!). This book is way more REAL in how we should all approach life. Shut up with the gossi

BATB score: 3.21/10 Best to: Your word choices and sentence structure annoys me. Book tries too hard to be intellectual but book's content is crap. Book tries to be all-knowing but book's example cases are poor. Book tries to introduce modules but book's logic is flawed. (Replace "Book" with "You" and "Your" for intensified drama) Best for: Geoffrey A. Moore to re-write this book. Best as: a required read for a VC book club with everyone nice enough to complement on minuscule

BATB score: 10/10 Wow. Just Wow. An on-point manual to all the 21st-century disrupting leaders. The book challenges top companies' best practices in acquiring, managing, and firing talents. Even Facebook and Google (the best companies to work for) got a decent slap-in-the-face KO. The content below may be depressing to those ocean eyes naive hopeful souls. For example: - Firing people (even the best talents and managers) who have become irrelevant to the company's north stars

BATB score: 10/10 a practical memoir of Bill Campbell (life coach to big-name leaders: Larry Page, Sheryl Sandberg, Steve Jobs) This book v good. A concise, clear, approachable, and actionable people-principles that you can read today and adopt tomorrow. Honestly, I feel like a better manager already with all these know-how in my head! Best for: people who want to be better people; a reminder for all of us to be genuine and "be kind to one another" Best as: a 2020 New Year gi

BATB score: 4.44/10 Dear Bill Gates (recommender of this book), this is not a book. This is a research paper. Circadian rhythm, Adenosine, Melatonin, REM, nREM, narcolepsy, to lucid dream, this research paper takes sleep to its scientific and technical comprehension. To be fair, it's a fun read to know that platypus dreams the most, that birds and dolphins can sleep half a brain at a time, that Thomas Edison systematically plans to collect his dream inputs, and sleepwalker mu

BATB score: 4.45/10 >85% of the book's CEO-content can not be applied by the average Joe. Ben Horowitz's real-life CEO struggles on hiring, running, merging, selling, and firing people/companies from penny stocks to 1 billion sold, are beyond our pay grades. It's difficult to relate to; I am just a low-life-form company's minion. But I do understand this better that CEOs can be jerks with that "company before you" attitude. I guess that's why CEOs have a corner office to eat

BATB score: 1/10 (that 1 point is for the walrus and the dodo on its cover) You can not take wikipedia's content and publish them as your book! Dictionary - {what this book is} - Encyclopedia Content too long to be an adequate dictionary but too short to be an in-depth encyclopedia; this book gives you nothing but an alphabetically arranged wikipedia topics. How do you even read this dictopedia? Random page, toilet read? #Dictopedia #CopyrightBATB Best as: a book-end for your

BATB score: 8.8/10 OKRs: Objective, Key Results CFRs: Conversations, Feedback, Recognition BHAG: Big Hairy Audacious Goal GG: Google, Good God, or Good Game; depending on your tech, religious, or DOTA top of mind Explanation of what OKR is, examples of what OKRs are, and the OK and the not OK of OKRs. Pure 100% OKR goal-setting management book. Not for the lefty loosey #chillchill #allcancan boss. Best for: avid management book readers. OKR-lovers. Best to: conduct this easy

BATB score: 4.44/10 shocking how one can write so much about a sole two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system aka the 4-quadrant graph; 250+ pages on red, blue, green, and yellow. Unfortunately, no one is a single color but rather a two-tone or tri-colored. #complicated Best to: summarize the book into four A4 pages (one for each color) then read that summary Best as: an instagram picture with that edgy cover and attention grabbing title BATB score: 4.44/10 (exactly 1.11 po

BATB score: 7.07/10 "We are not noble in reason, not infinite in faculty, and rather weak in apprehension." - Dan Ariely #iloveyou A book of random experiments on Ivy league students behaving opposite to what logic blueprint has dictated. Control group, variables, hypothesis, and contradicting conclusions on how we believe we have understood humans but we don't understand hoo-mans at all. #uncrackable Best for: anyone with a modest interest in psychology and behavioral econom

BATB score: 8.5/10 Outliers like Bill Gates are merely ordinary people who got lucky, who got an opportunity to get a head start, and who completed 10,000 hours diligently. Best for: 'Your success today owes up to whether your great grandpapa was a farmer.' If this statement, made you go "huh?" or "wad?", then go read this book. Best as: a reminder that maybe all those cool people (Taylor Swift, Mark Zuckerburg, Isaac Newton) just got lucky. Best to: tell people that you have

BATB score: 1/10 - it's not you, it's me Dear Yuval Noah Harari, our relationship has become more effort than you are worth. 💔 I know your books are being praised, loved, and adored by many. I tried. I did try (reading 120 out of 500 pages) to make it work. But I don't know what your book wants from me or what you're trying to tell me. It's all over the place my love. 🥺 Best to: break up now so we only have good memories Best: this isn't easy but neither is your book Best f

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: 0.5/10 It's like listening to that uncle who took forever to make a point and just when you thought the point was made, that wasn't the point. #UncleChronicles #benice #keepsmiling Best for: those uncles who can relate to this uncle Best as: a home remedy for sleeplessness 😴 Best to: note that Peterson mentions 'god' a lot (like a lot!) #ChristianUncleChronicles I read 20/370 pages which is approximately 0.5/10