BATB score: 8/10 Best as: A book on how to work smarter through solving big problems via thinking small Best to: know how to win in a hot dog eating competition. Hysterical. Love the stories. Love the experiments. Best for: seekers of data-driven analysis of random life situations

BATB score: 7.6/10 This is not a book. This is a research paper in disguise. This research paper has a point: the no-plastic-tote-bag lifestyle is not the answer. (1) Climate change is a natural phenomenon. It happens every millennium (1000 years) - that's why the dinosaurs went bye-bye. But this time, global warming is made-man and is happening within centuries (100 years). (2) Global warming started with the Industrial Revolution 1800s by big powers: consumerism, economics,

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: 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: 2.1 / 10 😵 It's not you, it's me. I surrender. 🏳️ I really CAN NOT do Yuval Noah Harari. Lion King hakuna matata lifestyle, the Truman show CCTV, fake news of wine and bread, and more odd ball anecdotes. Well thought through but presented in abrupt concepts - imagine a Professor taking forever to build up to the point, taps the point a bit, *bell rings*, that's all - the end. #whaaa Best to: you either love Yuval Noah Harari or you don't #yuvalnoahharari Best as

BATB score: 9.5/10 Behavioural economics and the science behind 'when' to volunteer to go first, to get married, to quit a job, to get a divorce, etc. Best for: 19, 29, 39, 49 year olds trying to finish a book (and hoping to claim that one has a healthy reading lifestyle) before one turns to yet another decade old Best to: know that “Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.” - Miles Davis Best as: a book 'nappucino' - a very simple read between other heavy books Note:

BATB score: 6/10 🥱💤 How to operate your memory brain - Rhetorica Ad Herennium with memory palaces and Person-Action-Object (PAO) technique eg. #89 - snowfall ❄️ Best as: how to train to be mental athletes for the USA Memory Championship - very relatable, definitely every childhood dream 💭 #sarcasm Best to: watch the Netflix documentary "Memory Games" which perfectly summarises the gist of this book in 1.5 hours at 6.7/10 imdb score instead Best for: the book cover and book

BATB score: 5/10 🤦‍♀️ The Confidence Code of all human existence both male and female comes from both nature and nurture. Find yourself a confident role model. Best to: very wordy and wishy washy; the main gist is definitely there but can be summarized into a page Best for: "Women tend to talk 75% less when they were outnumbered by men in the same room; while a man in a room with mostly women talks just as much as he always does." Hey yo! We need to speak up and claim our se

BATB score: 8.8/10 ⭐️ A complete collection of all the popular social psychology fallacy out there. Trust me, this is the only social psychology book you'll ever need to own / to read. Best to: know that David McRaney refers to Daniel Kahneman "Thinking Fast and Slow" and to Dan Ariely "Predictably Irrational" while both Daniel and Dan referred back to David; seems like a small social psychologist community eh? Best for: if you have not explored any social psychology book or

BATB score: 7/10 👽 meh. not bad for a very simple concept on gut/instinct decision-making to be elaborated adequately with interesting storytelling. Best to: know that first impressions would mostly stick - that's why speed dating is not only effective but time-efficient Best for: book fanatics of Malcolm Gladwell; if you have not read any of Gladwell's pieces, please start with Outliers and/or The Tipping Point Best as: okay Malcolm, I like the cover of this book, while the

BATB score: 6.5/10 RIP Daniel Kahneman - the first famous author (that BATB knows of) to choose euthanasia / assisted suicide at 90 years old *Reader Discretion Advised* An unpopular book review of a popular book coming up... I salute to anyone who finishes this book; for me it's just too much! This book makes me hate reading. Best to: basically, your brain has two systems: the fast emotional sensing monkey and the slow logic thinking Einstein; mostly the monkey wins. Then th

BATB score: 10/10 👏⭐️🔥 Bravo! Restoring trust and compassion amongst humankind - believe me, we all are nice in nature. Best to: nerdy but beautifully written with anecdotes from all the legends "The Tipping Point" Malcolm Gladwell, "The Prince" Niccolò Machiavelli, "Drive" Daniel H. Pink, "Mindset" Carol Dweck, "Factfulness" Hans Rosling, and so much more. Best for: all humans who may have lost faith in this world; this book allows you to believe again that we're not mons

BATB score: 6.78/10 🧑‍🔬🧬💊 I am happy that Dr. David A. Sinclair PhD is very passionate in his revolutionary field of study against ageing; his determination to discuss and raise this underdog subject is heartfelt. Best to: this thick nerdy book is Dr. Sinclair's attempt to proof that ageing research is underrated; how ageing should be considered as a disease that we all experience (and should get more funding), as something that can be decoded for betterment (NMN tablets)

BATB score: 7/10 from 🐰 to 🐲 Best to: know that 90% of advertising doesn't work; advertising is not all that powerful to make behavioural changes, incremental sales, or a shift in societal norm #blahblah. To quote the book, all that advertising does is to "give client an edge over their competitor" ; that's all. Best for: communications major students / graduates who are off doing a variety of jobs for a pay check - hello! me included 🙋‍♀️ (who said we're in this advertisi

BATB score: 3.5/10 🥵 *Reader Discretion Advised* a thick ass excruciatingly detailed, boring and complex explanation of pre-Immelt, Immelt's 16 years as CEO of General Electrics, and post-Immelt - and every single damn thing that happened in between #painful #JeffImmelt I gave up at page 80/312. Best to: this book reminds you of the agony and discomfort of going MBA case discussions - so what has the CEO done wrong that led to the fall of General Electrics throughout his 16

BATB score: 8/10 💦 This book should be a required reading for Political Science students. Introductory book to government, legislation, capitalism, taxation, social security, employment, education, etc; about their flaws today and how to fix them. Best to: know that the book is filled with USA-centric governance and deficiency, however, the analysis, principles, and key next steps are globally applicable Best for: hard-working middle class citizens paying high bracket taxati

BATB score: 7/10 🤯🌎🥶 Introduction to Climate Change for Dummies by the one and only billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates (gates, gates gates) 📣 Best to: remember only two numbers: 51 billion is how many tons of greenhouse gases the world typically adds to the atmosphere every years aka where we are today; and ZERO greenhouse gases emission is what we need to aim for to survive Best for: you know how Bill Gates predicted an epidemic virus that will kill millions in his 20

BATB score: 3/10 🙊🗣🙉 *Reader discretion advised* Daniel Kahneman devotees, you are not going to like what I am about to say... Best to: Kahneman himself wrote in his book's introduction that it is advisable to skip part 3 & 4 of this 6-part book. How odd is that? What kind of good author writes a book that is so difficult to digest, too technical and too watery (not conveying any impactful learnings relative to the number of pages) and admittedly recommends readers to skip

BATB score: 9/10 🤩 Best to: legit snack-able, relatable, practical storytelling version to the worlds of Yunal Noah Harari's mission to uncover who we were, who we are, and who will we be Best for: anyone who struggled to finish Yunal Noah Harari's books; this cartoon version of his famous Sapiens book is made for you and me; thank god for this "for dummies" version #hallelujah Best as: did you know that there were 6 species of hominins aka humans? Homo sapiens is not only o