BATB score: 10/10 BATB re-read; now that BATB is in the entertainment business, this book gives so much wisdom Best as: Bob Iger’s career and leadership memoir - 46 years in the same company - writing about his insecurities of not knowing, making decisions based on gut feelings, and experiencing work-related anxiety and the need to compartmentalize BATB lingering thought: his wife reminds him that “this role is not all of you” to keep him sane and at peace Best as: leaders h

BATB score: 7/10 RIP Virginia Giuffre; thank you for this memoir, thank you for fighting the #metoo #Epsteinfiles movement, thank you for shedding light on the corrupted powerfuls Best to: know that Jeffrey Epstein is not an anomaly but the norm Best as: case of the decade Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell vs. 500+ underage trafficked girls BATB lingering thought: I don’t know how you wrap your brain to wanting to have children knowing how messed up this world is; white p

BATB score: 0.2/10 Proof that books can be outdated. What Tina wish she knew when she was 20 is if she can turn back time to 1978 (when she was literally 20). Best to: A lot has changed, Miss Tina. Best for: skip it.

BATB score: 5.55/10 Best to: “Vagina” once the taboo was breached, it released a torrent of memories, anger, and sorrow Best as: Happy to have sponsored you. Quirky vagina monologues. Eve Ensler’s presenter notes compiled in a book. Watch her speech on YouTube also can. Best for: feminists.

BATB score: 9.2/10 “One who has a WHY to live for can bear almost any HOW.” A psychologist explains what went through his mind as a dying Jewish prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. Human survival instinct, adaptation to hunger/pain, the concept of and the lack of hope. Deepdive down to when the Jewish prisoners were finally freed, they ran out to celebrate their freedom for a few hours, and by sundown, came back to sleep in the old camp grounds. Psychotherapeutic story-tel

BATB score: 10/10 Strongly Recommended! Adam Kay's diary when he was serving his 6 years studies and ward life to be an aspiring doctor. You can read the emotions, the stress, and the final decision. Extremely relatable. Isn't it all of us who are trying to excel in our career, keep our partners happy, maintain a social life, keep in touch with family, drink more water, get enough sleep, smile, and be polite? Best for: all of us who’s trying

BATB score: 8.2/10 Adam Kay's diary of a doctor in the making - week of and week after Christmas entries exclusives. Best for: read "This is Going to Hurt" by Adam Kay first. Best to: share this book to your Asian parents who still believes aspiring to be a doctor, marrying a doctor, raising your kids to be doctors, are the true definition of success (spoiler alert: meh, it's not) Best as: a reminder to everyone who visits the doctor to be kind (if your day/work sucks, doctor

BATB score: 10/10 Literature Classics. Anne Frank was only 13-years-old. Writing all of these diary entries regarding her worldly perspectives, her analysis of people, and her writing composition is well beyond her years. She's exceptionally smart! Maybe antisemitism originated because Jews are smarter, wiser, and more well-to-do than the rest. Just imagine if the Holocaust, Adolf Hilter and the Nazi ideology didn't happen, the world may be filled with a lot more Jewish brill

BATB score: 7.3/10 *reader discretion advised* It’s an autobiography and one’s personal stories are subjective to one reader’s liking. From hustling on the streets, eating worms for dinner, to sleeping in someone else’s cars, today, Trevor Noah (comedian, writer, television host) net worth is 30M USD. Nonetheless, it’s an interesting story of a mixed skin outcast during apartheid in South Africa where he’s too white to be in the black crowd and too black to be in the white c

BATB score: 5/10 a collection of Greta Thunberg's climate crisis speeches. This is proof that frequency matters. She has only 1 message: "wake up" to the climate CRISIS (not climate change - no reality nor urgency there). Know the core science, <8.5 years left until Earth uses all of its 420 gigatonnes of CO2 quota. Fail and Earth will exceed >1.5+ Celsius with Y2030 incurring irreversible chain reactions beyond all homo sapiens' control. Leaders do something now (so we can g

BATB score: 9.9/10 Happy to read, happier while reading and happiest to have read. Best for: Ali Wong's fanclubs who LOL or ROFL to her Baby Cobra and Hard Knock Wife stand-ups. You MUST watch those Netflix stand-ups first! Best to: listen to her read her book to you [Ali Wong narrated the audiobook herself]. And just turn the pages along for sentimental reasons. Random note: I love how her husband gets to write the last 10 pages of her book. Her husband is gold!

BATB score: 10/10 my heart cries. That's the funny thing about life. A concept of delayed gratification where one suffers for X+ years for X times more pay, more benefits, or nirvana: associates to partners, minions to C-levels, students to doctors. Not knowing that we could just die a few steps before the finish line. And how now to live when you don't know whether you have <1, =1, >1 year left. This unknown is the most depressing. my heart cries to know that one day his dau

BATB score: 6/10 damn it Michelle! this book is such a tactful way to compliment your husband and humbly brag about yourself through 450 pages of paperback portrait #okaykaa Best to: listen to Michelle Obama narrate her own audiobook and multitask with other important things in life. 19 hours at 2X speed = 9.5 hours of become, became, become, and still becoming more #mindfatigue #isufferedalot Best for: true fans of the Obamas and idolizers of Michelle Obama [there's a lot of

BATB score: 10/10 Pure bliss. One of the most concise, easy to read, simple to relate self-improvement books. Written by the one and only Ma'am Oprah Winfrey! You know how self-help books can be (1) annoying with its 1 2 3 step-hop plan that no one on Earth is disciplined enough to practice anyway; (2) and disgusting with its #blessed running in lavender fields fake dogma (oh just wake up!). This book is way more REAL in how we should all approach life. Shut up with the gossi

BATB score: 3.5/10 RIP Twitter Twitter CEOs: Jack Dorsey -> Evan Williams -> Dick Costolo -> Jack Dorsey (again) Best friends, lots of alcohol on a boat, ego-power-play, frenemies, secret meetings, Bill Campbell, revenge, Oprah, and fame. Typical start-up storyline #tbh Best to: find out about Twitter founders' conflicts via some online 10-minute-read bullet-point snippets Best for: nonfiction written in a fiction screenplay; honestly how did Nick Bilton know so much #CCTV? B

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: 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