BATB score: 4/10 apples and oranges, Best to: stories started to repeat; yes, sequels. I comprehend and forgave. Best for: read ‘Think Like a Freak’ first, then we talk

BATB score: 4/10 From hoarders to minimalists, Marie Kondo makes life extremely simple on what to keep and what to toss. Here's how: Hold X up. Ask yourself, "does X spark joy?". If yes, fold X vertically and keep X neatly. If no, say thank you to X and throw X away. Replace X with clothes👘, books, photos, boyfriend/girlfriend, or even your career; and life is now X item less cluttered. The book itself can be thoroughly summarized into a 2-page pdf with Arial size 14 font in

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: 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: 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: 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: 4/10 This book is way smarter than my brain-grade. #BillGatesReco #GatesNotes 🧐 I am like an aspiring junior highschool A-class sweetheart vs a suited-up PhD who spent his whole life understanding the complexity of p-values doubting his meaning of life (at times) but yet 8 years too late for any career shift. #yepyou Laffer curve, utils - law of diminishing returns, Bayesian inference, Condorcet paradox, xxx, yyy, zzz. Best for: number lovers who get a sensual ki

BATB Score: 4.321/10 #TheRosieProject #GraemeSimsion The only fiction book that Bill Gates recommended (out of this solid recommendations of nonfiction research papers) #GateNotes It's basically Sheldon Cooper's love life; not be Amy but with Rosie. #TheBigBangTheory Best for: the overlap between nonfiction bookworms and Sheldon Cooper fanclubs Best to: just read for fun and expect nothing; or maybe leave the fiction to the cinemas. Best as: BATB's one and only fiction book r

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

BATB score: 4/10 🙄👎🥱 10/10 for the book title #clickbait 4/10 for the numerous self-anecdotes #selfpraise and under-developed concepts. At most common sense techniques in business. This book deserves to die. Best to: read the elaborated negotiating principles in "How to Talk to Anyone" - Leil Lowndes; and the office politics principles in "Power" - Jeffrey Pfeffer Best as: toilet reads, each topic takes like 3 minutes to read and 3 seconds to digest the minimal gist that e

BATB score: 4/10 🥱 Business case examples were all from ancient 1950s - okay, to be fair, the book was written in 2001; but that’s like light years ago grand-daddy, millennial me can not relate Best to: just read the summary pages of each chapter for free at the bookstores Best as: okay, the concept on Level 5 Leadership and First Who, Then What still makes a lot of sense - omg 20 years later 😱 Best for: bragging rights at a networking event if someone says “The book that d

BATB score: 4.5/10 💔 Disclaimer: fiction is never my cup of tea especially romantic classic fiction like #NicholasSparks definitely makes me cringe a lot Best to: fake an appreciation to those who experienced their first love from "The Notebook" Best as: it's like classic chic flick in 90s book form; now with Tinder and Covid19, I don't think love works that way anymore. Best for: so far the book with the most 'I love you' sss Spoiler Alert: two exes meet, dumped current fia

BATB score: 4.5/10 🧠👨‍⚕️ Best as: scientifically accurate neurological required reading for the aspiring practitioners: occipital lobe, hemispherectomy, epilepsy, CT scans, to say the least Best to: acknowledge that the brain is the smartest organ hands down; did you know that the brain feels no pain? thus all brain surgery is preferred to be done with the patient fully conscious; except the cracking the skull part Best for: practicing doctors, neurosurgeons, and/or doctor-

BATB score: 4.5/10 *blah blah blah talk* Best to: study it than read it - more like a course work textbook than a casual read OR an orientation manual on how to be 'good' Chief Product Manager 101 Best for: if you are an aspiring Product Manager or conquering such career path, this book is both a 101 and a reminder of your core job (in case you've forgotten them); okay to skip this book if you are pursuing any other career ambitions Best as: seriously though, how many of us r

BATB score: 4.8/10 👹 Too crazy lengthy and too comprehensive for any lighthearted historian 😖 Best to: know that it's an extremely detailed biography of the three Soong sisters - one loved money, one loved power, and one loved her country - from childhood to deathbed; and the many characters and extended family members in between 💃💃💃 Best for: how the hell did Jung Chang write up such a downright account of the Soong sisters? Inclusive of feelings and inner thoughts of s

BATB score: 4/10 ☘️ Best to: the book delivers what it intends to do; 100 quick little tips/techniques of what millionaires do (presented in no particular order of importance) Lessons 1-2 on 'why do you want to be wealthy' and 'what does wealth mean to you' was quite deep soul-searching and critical. Then Lesson 100 talks about how at the end being happy and grateful suffices any monetary gains. #whatnow? Best for: you can read a lesson a day every time you visit the potty 💩

BATB score: 4/10 🤎 OMG. 12 main characters connected through societal roles as daughter, mother, grandmother, teacher, teacher's mother, student, girl-friend, girlfriend, gay transgender sister - throughout 12 chapters with 20+ other minor characters 👩‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👩‍👧👩‍👧👩‍👧‍👦 to complicate the stories even more #OMG Best to: extremely difficult to follow through the stories, too many things happening at the same time, minimal build up of character, impossible to bond

BATB score: 4/10 🔥 A novel written in 2017 and blasted to fame by Hulu TV mini series in 2020 starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington (who won shitload of award from this blaze). IMDB score 7.7/10 🔥 #dayum Best to: the mini-series did add a lot of it's own dramatic sparks and plot twistie flames to Celeste Ng's core ignition; to be honest, I bet the mini-series made the novel more juicy Best for: simple writing novel evangelist; you know how there are many novel aut

BATB score: 4/10 🌝 Best to: meh, not Mitch Albom's best piece; you get a sense that he is trying maybe a little too hard to top as a sequel to the hit "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" Best for: if you started to read Mitch Albom's books, you might as well read all of Mitch Albom's books to make it a complete collection Best as: Wouldn't you think my collection's complete? No big deal. There's still moreeee (a total of 12 titles from Mitch Albom) blah blah blah Best quote