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The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
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


Roxana by Daniel Defoe
BATB score: 7/10 💃 a journey of a whore from nobody, to mistress, to a rich ass Mademoiselle; navigating life's gems through husbands #idol #inspiration Best to: a difficult to read novel due to the many husbands/partners/lords/prince and the numerous details of her love life instances; I believe over 100+ plot twists happened in this one novel; +add-on to the novel difficulty with old style writings of oh lord, de, thy, nay. Best for: a very good plan B to wealth; in case o


Know My Name: The Survivor of the Stanford Sexual Assault Case Tells Her Story by Chanel Miller
BATB score: 6/10 💛 "Assault is Not an Accident" - just because she blacked-out does not mean you-stranger have a right to penetrate her #duh unbelievable Stanford elite graduates could be so stupid Best to: a very long read about the 18-months journey from day of blackout assault, to court filing and trials, recovery/therapy/insomnia and final statements of Chanel Miller - making a case for all assaulted victims 👏 Best for: it's an important book but it's just very long and


Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity, and Living a Good Life by Morgan Housel
BATB score: 8/10 🖤 Best to: it was very close to being very good book yet the 23 concepts were just all over the place; unlike Morgan Housel’s previous BATB 10/10 “Psychology of Money” book that was just about money #duh Best as: back in 1950s, we all were poorer but happier than today and that’s because there was no wealth gap, no one is better off, nothing to envy Best for: I believe many other book review pages would give this book a 10/10 so to avoid FOMO, read it BATB l
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