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Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord
BATB score: 10/10 Wow. Just Wow. An on-point manual to all the 21st-century disrupting leaders. The book challenges top companies' best practices in acquiring, managing, and firing talents. Even Facebook and Google (the best companies to work for) got a decent slap-in-the-face KO. The content below may be depressing to those ocean eyes naive hopeful souls. For example: - Firing people (even the best talents and managers) who have become irrelevant to the company's north stars


That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by Marc Randolph
BATB score: 7.5/10 How Netflix would have been a shampoo company and its journey to introduce "binge watching" and "Netflix and chill". Best as: a "long story short" from one entrepreneur to another; it was never about getting rich - it was about the thrill of doing good work, the pleasure of solving problems. Best to: know that startup is a lonely place, best to have a best friend entrepreneur who's doing this with you. Best for: entrepreneur wannabes. Nobody Knows Anything.


Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
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


No Rules Rules Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
BATB score: 10/10 💯 I've always been a big fan of Netflix culture since reading "Powerful" by Patty Mccord 2018 - absolutely dream company 💋 Best to: Netflix culture is very real - team not family, pay top of the market, 360 radical candor, 100% organizational transparency, 100% autonomy no rules rules! Best for: job opening? I would like to work at Netflix please. I believe I would be a great contributor! I will not cry I promise. Blah, who am I kidding... applied and reje


The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
BATB score: 9/10 🧑⚕️ Alex Michaelides is exceptionally talented in character creation and flow of uncovering storyline details. The book's plot twists, climax, and the closure falling act made clear that he is a full-time screenwriter. #Bravo Best to: not bad at all for a psychological thriller novel #dayum Best for: you know how you watch a movie and you go "I bet he's the killer"? well, through the pages, I had no clue. Best as: Netflix movie material


All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
BATB score: 7.2/10 ⭐️ a French blind girl trying to survive the Reich WWII and a German boy detecting her prohibited radio broadcast and (less important) a magical valuable blue gem 💎 called the Sea of Flames Best to: 500+ pages extremely verbose, detailed, and descriptive about numerous events in non-chronological order; readers are dumped with 100+ pieces of the story puzzle, you have to figure which pieces were important and which were just extras (like made in china dupl


Normal People by Sally Rooney
BATB score: 5/10 💁♀️🤷 you either like it or you don't. written in 2018 and immediately made into a Hulu original series 8.5/10 iMDb in 2020 #movefast Best to: why highschool 'friends with benefits' can continue to be good friends yet complicated benefits would linger, why if you don't date your highschool 'friends with benefits' back then, then don't expect to be able to date them now Best for: 'friends with benefits'; "I love you. It's not like this with other people." un


Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
BATB score: 8/10 🥹 a novel on 10 characters on 10 different types of everyday anxiety - relatable and lovable in every way Best to: scarier than being diagnosed with a mental illness is suffering and surviving everyday's immense anxiety while smiling and acting cool like you have it all in control as you are and do have the textbook definition of success and happiness #itsharderthanitlooks Best for: we all need therapy 💔 Best as: "Anxious People" Netflix TV Mini Series 6.8/


Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
BATB score: 7/10 💙 Alice Oseman is a hands-down writer prodigy - signing her first publishing deal at 17 for Solitaire and signing with Netflix at 26 for HeartStopper which was written at 22! That’s a lot of accomplishment at such a young age my friend. #isaluteyou Best to: digital age / modern day “The Catcher in the Rye” - the struggles of a teen figuring out the world: gender identity, friendship, parental influences, oxbridge academic success, online trolls, YouTube fame


The Trunk by Kim Ryeo-Ryeong
BATB score: 5/10 💔🧳 a Netflix series book adaptation featuring Gong Ji-cheol Yoo BATB lingering thought: I’ve always wondered what criteria were use to select books to make a series/movie adaptation from especially Netflix Original high standards; what the hell, it was a mediocre book with zero thriller nor romance nor revenge Best as: the book’s premise of rental wife / husband is interesting; could it be that Netflix picks just the fundamental concepts of a book and then


The One by John Marrs
BATB score: 9/10 ❤️ page-turner, unable to put down, impossible to predict what’s next, full of surprises and suspense, a plot twist with every chapter, bravo read Best to: ahh, so this kind of book gets selected by Netflix; a novel written by John Marrs, adapted into a Netflix Series in 2021; IMDb 6.6/10 British science fiction television series Best as: how far does one go to find the one? and when you are told he/she is the one for you (scientifically proven) would we forc
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