BATB score: 10/10 💎💎💎 this book is a hidden gem! business schools should include this book in their syllabus asap; I swear, I believe I have to re-read this book and make sure that I have squeezed out all of it's critical essences into my brain Best to: a complete explanation, constructive case studies, holistic theories, and hands-on practices on starting, keeping, and growing network effects for your consumer tech business 💯 Best for: anyone in consumer tech, business g

BATB score 10/10 💙💙💙 to all women and LGBTQIA+ who are climbing the corporate ladder in this patriarchal bro-hood, you MUST READ this book; it does not get any more honest, real, critical, and actionable than this 💯 Best to: hey baby girl, let's have a real talk about what you need to do to get on top. don't fall victim to the imposter syndrome, cinderella syndrome, queen B fallacy - f$ck it, kill them all 👸 Best for: hey baby girl, I don't think you will be ready for wh

BATB score: 6/10 😴 written since 1937, covering fears and desires that is still relevant today; proof that we have always questioned what is the meaning of life (and have yet to define them) Best to: legitimate material in the book about having desire, faith, imagination, persistence, about controlling your subconscious mind, sexual desire, sixth sense, and about having a mastermind group of best friends forever #bff ; yet, the book is just boringly written, extremely redund

BATB score: 7.7/10 💸 Is the 'price' for career success (for exceptional levels of income and responsibilities) extreme work stress? Are you literally dying for a paycheck? ☠️ Best to: it's a dissertation thesis paper on the economic cost of work stress, the behavioural economic at play from the employer in creating and the employees at consenting and enduring work stress, the socio-economic impact of work stress, and the recommendations to try to make things better Best for:

BATB score: 7/10 🔥 Burnout is a company’s problem not an individual’s illness. Providing Headspace app membership and/or Modern Health zoom workshop does not constitute as “a company that has demonstrated care for employees well-being”. Best to: the causes of burnout, the measures against burnout, and the self-care needed for leadership with burnout fighting for other employees to not burnout Best for: HR and C-level leadership who wants their legacy to include “demonstrates

BATB score: 8/10 💙 #BATBREREAD Best as: oddly this book is less interesting and less relevant to me now that I am back to being an individual contributor; plus working remotely (work from home alone forever) removes all of the office politics and office foul plays to zero BATB lingering thought: you literally don’t have to be that bubbly charismatic character any more now that everything is through zoom; that ‘join meeting’’ and that leave meeting’ button is your way in and

BATB score: 5/10 💥 written in 500 BC, a blueprint / playbook to war, oh my my this book is literally a part of history! Best to: Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is written in bullet points, short quotable phrases, short words of wisdom, and immediately moving onto the next short quotable phrase - kinda like reading a meme lol Best as: “Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.” OKAY NEXT! “Move swift as the Wind and closely

BATB score: 3/10 🚀🧨 Best for: in one’s lifetime one should definitely read at least one Elon Musk book, this is not that one Elon Musk book that one should read; better to check out Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance [7.6/10 BATB] Best as: so interesting how writers capitalize on other people’s stories; I am sure Michael Vlismas is not giving any of this book’s proceeds to Elon Musk BATB linger thought: I hope this world have more Elon Musk, the crazy ones, who is insane enough to d

BATB score: 8/10 👏 Best as: you don’t just get an offer to be CEO, you set “CEO” as your life’s goal and work backwards 24 years of career planning and progression to get there Best for: CEO career climbers only - “Many CEOs secretly agree that the best job in the world is actually the one right below the CEO.” Best to: a true playbook on how to get to be CEO, how to be CEO, and how to leave as CEO - lead with the question of “why?” to drive focus, and “why not?” to encourag

BATB score: 7/10 🤓 Best as: a full-blown white paper research on the differences of the different generations under the premise that “the era when you were born has a larger effect on your personality and attitudes than the family who raised you does” Best for: the nerdiest of nerd; beautiful line graphs on almost every other page; quantitative surveys and qualitative deep dives 📈 BATB lingering thought: the only down part is that it is US-based; I wonder whether the result

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

BATB score: 7/10 🫠 Best to: if you are going to read one book in this lifetime, this is the book for you; if you have read 100+ books in your lifetime, this book just summarizes all the good bits of every good book you’ve read - which you remember them all anyways, so more like re-worded reminder Best for: who the f is Steven Bartlett, even after googling him, I am still not sure who he is; but okay, he is skillful in summarizing other people’s books into his own book - I gu

BATB score: 6.6/10 🤖 *reader discretion advised* BATB is just a little bit bored of the GenAI/LLM hype 🫥 Best as: a great book about GenAI / LLM fundamentals, historical key milestones, reference cases, controversies, and future analysis 🧐 Best to: conclude the major takeaways of this book into bullet points, memorize them, own them; you are now equipped and qualified to go on a GenAI panel / discussion / keynote talk; you will looks legit - ahh what a charismatic knowledg

BATB score: 7.5/10 💛 *reader discretion advised: nerd alert* Best as: the mathematics behind GenAI; “personalization” means “conditional probability” and how Netflix customization and ratings works and the equations behind them all Best for: Bayes’s Rule as an Equation: P (H | D) = [ P(H) + P(D|H) ] / P(D) ; where P is probability, H is Hypothesis, and D is Data BATB lingering thought: The prevalence of breast cancer among people like Alice is 1%. That is, for every 1,000 40

BATB score: 8/10 ❤️ *TED Talk is hands down the epitome of world class public speaking - this book is all you need to know* Best to: why speak when this could have been an email you ask? because, “It’s the human overlay that turns information into inspiration.” Best as: an exhaustive lists of all the nooks and crannies to public speaking including how to start, how to finish, to memorize or not to memorize, what to wear, and how to save your presentation file in zip format *y

BATB score: 6/10 🥱 Best as: nothing more than what you already know compiled into a book with nice quotes here and there Best for: first time people manager Best to: I disagree, I believe that when you do get to be CEOs, be the CEO that is truest to who you are; no point following any framework or format; just be you, the board of directors, the company, your subordinates won’t be going to your funeral anyways Best quotes: “people don’t leave companies; they leave managers”

BATB score: 9/10 🥹 sending unsolicited emails to Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg asking for an interview may get you a hand-written rejection which is already content material 💯 Best as: diary of a 19-year-old dropout getting an exclusive interview with Maya Angelou, Bill Gates, and Lady Gaga 👏 via leveraging the “third door”connections aka persistence; never try never know The first door: the main entrance - where 99% of the people wait around hoping to get in The seco

BATB score: 2/10 😡 omg shut up already! you know that one old leadership who kept talking, mentioning hallow frameworks, shouting some tacky quotes “differentiate or die”, dumping more business terminology and acronyms where other words would have been sufficient, feeling like he is the smartest person in the room, but it’s only shit coins he’s holding on to? Best to: a complete leadership playbook with all the frameworks you can reference to - enough for a lifetime, good fo

BATB score: 9.5/10 🤯 interesting indeed, “Die with Zero” is the idea that we make all that money, we spend all that money within our prime health, and we die with zero (not negative but zero excess) in the bank - yolo Best for: you’ve did it! you’ve already made way too much money! - now please spend more and “make ‘maximize total life enjoyment’ your mantra” Best to: build more net worth for who again? “wealth will decline to zero by the date of death” anyways BATB lingerin

BATB score: 9/10 🥹 second time reading this beautiful reminder to reclaiming life from work (that awful work that will never love you back) Best to: have other defining identities beyond work, ask “what do you like to do?” over “what do you do” > I am a avid reader, author of Beauty and The Book page, a travel the world enthusiast, a beloved friend to some / a mean friend to some, a good asian daughter and daughter-in-law, I have sailor-moon energy to share, some call me sun