BATB score: 7.5/10 This book moved my heart, brain, and feet. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett agrees. Best to: read the book from cover to cover in one sitting then go buy yourself some NIKE shoes and NKE stocks Best as: a reminder that doing something out of pure passion always wins #ShoeDog is a person dedicated to designing and fabricating shoes—and selling them 👟 Best for: I honestly could care less about shoes but now NIKE deeply speaks to me; a book that would impact you

BATB score: 0/10 Zero to None* it’s so bad it hurts. Unfinished random thoughts of uncle Thiel that failed to convey any meaning. Fragmented paragraphs and loosely described concepts, it’s like he’s sleep-talking 💤 social distancing with every sentence ❌ Best for: Uncle Peter Thiel and Uncle Peter Thiel alone #tablefor1 Best to: live like this book never exists #unforgivable #bookstagram Best as: proof that not all successful business founders are great writers (Thiel co-fou

BATB score: 2.4/10 Dear middle-aged, high-achieving, stressed-out women #yesyou, this 1-2-3 step workbook may overwhelm you even more. You know that one friend that kept bragging about herself and you keep a friendly smile but deeply you want to kick her in the face? This book is her. 5 Pillars, 5-Do's 5-Don't, 7 Focus Areas, 7 Days 24 Hours #byeworld #icannotanymore Best to: skip to the signpost exercises of each chapter and complete them. Your legacy, growth friends, and li

BATB Score: 1/10 The book cover is misleading #fakenews You kind of expect Malcolm's behavioral economics and techniques to talk to strangers when it's more of documentary anecdotes on how we don't know the people around us. #strangersassemble Best for: those who spark joy from the CIA fooled, the pedophile getting lucky, the innocent arrested, and just on and on case studies. Best as: a Netflix 45 minutes documentary #TBC #bookstagram Best to: watch the Netflix documentary i

BATB score: i5-9600K / 10 Classic old-school management book with all time favourite Maslow's hierarchy, mid-year appraisal-review, and 1-1s. #booksince1983 #stilltrue Best for: any one of Andy Grove's children or ex-colleague to rewrite this book. Good stuff definitely but wordy, unstructured with outdated anecdotes. Best as: a sacred original to all management books that had follow suit Best to: read Powerful by Patty McCord and/or Trillion Dollar Coach instead Fun Fact: An

BATB score: 8.88/10 for the 8 years that you've served us. I had too, we kinda owe him... Note to self: always practice self-PR and to engage in every self-PR opportunity. #smilewave #sellyourself Seriously, it's a book about how disciplined, genuine, and dedicated Obama was to his country and his people. "10LADs" - Obama reads 10 Letters a Day and reply to them; for god's sake, I don't even read my mails. Best to: squint. Obama's handwritten replies are really difficult to r

BATB score: 9/10 for Lale's 9 lives #areyouacat My heart hurts for his series of unfortunate events where one's deliberate life goals (a scholar, a good citizen, a millionaire) were reduce to a mere 'to stay alive' within 24 hours. Best for: me to just die from day 1 at the camp - I can not Best as: a reminder that the scariest living thing is us humans and the most horrible things are from what us humans can do and chose to do to us humans #AllLifeMatters Best to: I don't kn

BATB score: 7.654321 / 10 🚀 Best as: today's real life Iron Man, with a bullied childhood, insane dreams - Mission to Mars, deep pockets, an arrogant attitude, trophy wives, and twins, triplets, and X Æ A-12 Best to: get ready for super detailed pages of Zip2, X dot-com aka Paypal, SolarCity, SpaceX, and Tesla - Harvard Business School equivalent cases #IAmAnEngineerNow Best to: save the human race from self-imposed or accidental annihilation 👽👾🤖 Fun Fact: 149.9B, 85B, 79

BATB score: 2.34/10 Extremely difficult to finish cover-to-cover. 2 years+ of owning this book, trying to give it a 2nd, 3rd, 4th ready-set-read; enough is enough. Best for: "Walk Away" - Dia Frampton to sing the chorus for this book Best as: you better run away, run away, run away~ Best to: no matter what you say, what you say, what you say~ Note: Go read other behavioural economic books instead -check out the freakonomics series or Dan Ariely combos

BATB score: 3.33/10 PSA: The Secret disciples, please turn away. Spoiler alert: skeptic review below. The original self-help book in its perfect lame definition: one abstract concept "positive thoughts, positive life" repeated redundantly throughout the book. Best to: know that The Secret is no longer a secret - it's basically the concept of good karma; good thoughts, good deeds, good life. Best as: yet another self-help book where you puke rainbows; sure, I get it, mind-powe

BATB score: 3.33 / 10 The book's first 3 chapters were GOLD 🏆 and it all just went downhill from there ⚓️ . The key is "fixed vs growth mindset" yet redundantly explained with this-and-that anecdotes. Best to: Yes, I get it: pick growth > fixed mindset. I got it since your first chapter. Aha. Aha. Best for: Asians, who were spanked by their Asian parents to be perfect: A+, King Classroom, 4.00GPA, Ivy League, scholarship, lawyers/doctors/pilot - everything else is a disgrace

BATB score: 7.89/10 How to Self-Zen for Idiots #Legit #Practical Best for: nervous Nelly who panics for no obvious reason because you will do well anyways but you are still anxious that you'll fail #yesyou #thatme #sweatypalms Best as: 1-2-3 Self-Zen guidebook for worrywart with an acceptable amount of cheesy self-help repetition Best to: "Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday." - Dale Carnegie

BATB score: 8.9/10 #legit 🤘 Best as: a book that summarizes other books' highlights from (1) Grit by Angela Duckworth, (2) Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, to (3) Mindset by Carol Dweck Best to: "One BOOK to rule them all, One BOOK to find them, One BOOK to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them" - said BATB Gandalf 🧙‍♂️ Best for: you who said you will read more but haven't read any and claim that you are so behind but you haven't really started on any one book;

BATB score: 2/10 Panda eats shoots and leaves. 🐼🌿🏳️‍🌈 Panda eats, shoots and leaves. 🐼🔫🏴‍☠️ Best for: grammar Nazis; so is it ** Jesus' or Jesus's ** - if this bothers you then, congratulations! You are a grammar Nazi! Best to: skip it. the cover is tempting but the content is meh. An elementary grammar book is more concise and content. #Punctuations101 Best as: Let's eat Panda. 🧟‍♂️🍴🐼 Let's eat, Panda. 🙋‍♂️🙌🐼 Let's eat Panda's. 🙋‍♂️🙌🐼🍀 Our English teachers w

BATB score: 3.14/10 yes, Ray Dalio, 18 billion USD net worth, richest hedge fund firm wrote, wrote this #Principles #RayDalio #bookstagram yes, Bill Gates recommends this #BillGates #GateNotes BUT NO, don't bother. It's like reading a bullet point with sub-bullet points with sub-sub-bullet points on and on. The bullet points are redundant and repetitive. A very torturing (book?) NASA manual to read. #DontLetAnyOneTellYouOtherwise Best for: the some good parts to be re-written

BATB score: 8.9/10 💫🙆 A+ insightful e-commerce blueprint. Mastermind's playbook on why Amazon.com stock price is 3000++ USD and why Jeff Bezos is the richest human in the world. Best for: #Shopee #Lazada #JDCentral #Tokopedia #Bukalapak senior management to read this; oh sorry, that's right you don't read #gutfeelsleadership Best to: deepdive into how Bezos foresees a challenger, quickly dumps shitload of money into a competing business model (which was not meant to last),

BATB score: 5.55 / 10 To be fair, Simon Sinek is an outstanding inspirational speaker but not so much of an inspirational writer. #flop Best to: check out Simon Sinek's YouTube videos instead Best as: Simon Sinek writes like he speaks. It was kind of weird. May be better to check out his audiobooks. Best for: some parts of the book reminds me of that old uncle who is full of hot air - you know he's trying to make a point but what's the point exactly?

BATB score: 8.5/10 🤑🥇💚 Get-Rich-Quick manual on investing in Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 stocks. Striking before the mass #InsiderTrading and fleeing before the crash #STOPLOSS. This book is definitely smarter than me. Best for: amateur investors looking to make Warren Buffett proud (scoring >7% market growth - Berkshire Hathaway A-Class investment consultants) Best to: know that in this book on the Most Important Thing (expecting singular 1), there were 21 Most Important Thi

BATB score: 10/10 🥇👑❣️ Brilliance. Inspirational. Well-written autobiography. 10 10 10! Best to: READ THIS ASAP. Malala Yousafzai aka 'the girl shot by the Taliban (15 y/o)' aka youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner (17 y/o) aka activist for the right of all children to education aka #Hallelujah Best for: #AllLivesMatter and us all who may have taken free/affordable education for granted Best as: a kick in the nuts to all teenagers out there striking a pose for Instagram and/or

BATB score: 4.5/10 🥱👎🥴 Scott Young's only fame is on his self-appointed MIT Challenge #selfhigh5 ; self-learnt the entire MIT undergraduate computer science curriculum and passed all of the finals in <1 year #goodforyou Best to: read the book's summary (of any free resources online) worth ~20 minutes max of your attention Best as: high effort > prodigy geniuses Best for: Scott Young to re-write the book - extremely wordy and redundant; not the best learning book about ultr