BATB score: 6/10 💃🏻 🕺 *great book title 👏 metaphorically descriptive and conclusive: men and women are polar opposites 🪐☄️ Best as: written by a relationship counselor back in 1992; 33 years later, a lot of the premises are still true Best to: however, gender-role association may not be that straightforward; there’s more than two genders now and gender-role characteristics are more fluid BATB lingering thought: and that’s why we need marriage counseling (and maybe that’s

BATB score: 2/10 😡 you’ve wasted my time *said with an intimidating resting bitch face* please go zen away from me Best as: this is not how you introduce Buddhism to busy people; this is how you pissed off busy people with your repetitive writing style, softie storytelling, and weakest Buddhism pitch Best to: hire a very good ghost writer, re-write this book to a third of the size, get to the point don’t waste time, raise only your killer best stories, gain better street cre

BATB score: 6/10 🤖 meh. introduction to Microsoft company culture and 2030s vision under Satya Nadella’s ruling; fun fact, AI investment was already in the works since 2017 👏 Microsoft and OpenAI 🚀 Best for: if you are applying for a director role at Microsoft Best to: mister growth mindset, c in ceo stands for culture, one team one dream, learning from on-ground consumers, partners, and competitors, serving a sole north star “to empower every person and organization on th

BATB score: 3/10 ⌛️ Best to: this book on “time” is a waste of time Best as: Chris Guillebeau is a weakling Best for: too basic for valedictorians, IVY league graduates, wartime leaders, all-star employees, and asians BATB lingering thought: your best excuse to say no to anything is “No, thank you. I’m going to die one day.” Best quotes: “You feel regretful about the past, uncertain or hesitant about the present, and apprehensive of the future.” “If everything’s important, no

BATB score: 10/10 👏 *Daniel H Pink is my favorite non-fiction author* Best as: nerdy, scientific, experimental, behavioral economics, entertaining, fun read Best for: you need to digest and think of further optimizing implementation from these insights or else it’s just useless fun read Best to: knowing that it is the last piece of chocolate, that last piece is the most yummy nom nom Best quotes: “If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your st

BATB score: 7/10 🤔 Best for: first jobbers / young rat racers or a reminder for senior leaders; how to be beloved by your manager, how to navigate office gossip and benefit from corridor talk, how to ask for a raise, and when and how to quit tactfully Best as: once you are more senior, you either figure out how to navigate manager politics with your own playbook or you don’t give a fuck any more 😂 BATB lingering thought: at 35 years old, after sprinting in this corporate ra

BATB score: 9/10 🐟 *book elevator pitch* how did Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle (mandate roles, smelly fish, early hours, low wages) be a fun, happy, great place to work? Best as: simple easy good read, here’s a conclusive book summary 1. PLAY - Work made fun gets done. 2. MAKE THEIR DAY - turn routine encounters into special memories 3. BE THERE - be present wholeheartedly 4. CHOOSE YOUR ATTITUDE - optimism and gratefulness attracts positivity Best for: a reminder for al

BATB score: 9/10 👏 Best as: Bill Gates’ 2025 recommended read is 700 pages long; took BATB a distracted 1 month to complete - enjoyed most of the chapters tho Best to: a memoir of a New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner sharing the behind the scenes of Tiananmen Square, the Yemeni civil war, the Darfur genocide in Sudan, sex slave in Southeast Asia, Cuba warlords and so much more reportings BATB lingering thought: now where’s the line between passive reporting a

BATB score: 7/10 🤯 BATB loves victim’s memoir - own your story 💪 yeah! from the front page news, the unbelievable tragic story, the imprisonment, the documentary, “The Act” movie spin off; yes girl, you tell your story! Best for: you need prior knowledge on Dee Dee and Gypsy case, extreme Munchausen by Proxy, actually very famous case you should know BATB TL;DR: “When Dee Dee Blanchard was twenty-four years old, she gave life to me. When I was nearly twenty-four years old,

BATB score: 6/10 😂 *reader discretion advised* BATB just wanted to know how did this comedian, Matt Rife, ended up on BATB’s For You feed?!? Best as: ahh okay, Matt Rife has always wanted to be a comedian and so he did! by self-sponsoring his first stand up show, posting clips on all social media, hit the jackpot with Tiktok For You algorithm, and boom ta da! 🎉 world tour sold out 👏 Netflix Christmas special and wrote a memoir 🤯 took 12 years Best for: you must have seen

BATB score: 8/10 🥹 Best as: wow what a memoir on eating to suppress feelings, eating as a defense mechanism, eating to hide to the point of morbid obesity BATB TL;DR: sexually abused at 12, turned to eating to numb feels to the point of obesity Best to: redundant with each chapter but forgivable Best for: any women out there who agrees that fat shaming and fat dysmorphia is real; even if you are not (that) fat you wish to be less fat Best quotes: “I reserve my most elaborate

BATB score: 6/10 🤔 a BATB re-read in memory of Baek Sehee #RIP Best to: we don’t know why Baek Sehee passed away at 35 years old though I do hope she passed away peacefully or at the very least at peace finally BATB lingering thought: from re-reading her book on her mental struggles - persistent depressive disorder - and her POV on free death, you have your suspicions but it doesn’t matter Best as: if that’s really the case, according to the details of the book, I don’t thin

BATB score: 8/10 😊 Best as: damn, sometimes we forget that Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani education activist, is just a girl nothing special and she deserves to just be a girl nothing special Best to: a coming of age memoir of a Pakistani girl in Oxford University in love Best for: you have to know who Malala Yousafzai is and you should have read “I Am Malala” book first Best quotes: “As if the worst thing that ever happened to me was the most interesting part of my life.” “To

BATB score: 9/10 Best as: a diary of a doctor in palliative care guiding the dying through their last moments Best to: you know how we can only die once, and so we really can’t predict nor prepare how it would be (even those peaceful deaths), worst yet, those who have experienced full death can not come back #resurrection and share their learnings; and so there’s lot of anxiety on the leading days to death as a dying novice BATB linger thought: most common question is will it

BATB score: 3/10 😪 Best as: a DIY manual on how to navigate oneself through life’s challenging moments ie. when feeling left out, when feeling like an imposter, with grieve, with negative self-criticism, friendships, regrets, etc Best for: aliens 👽 trying to impersonate humans 🧍🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️ Best to: like a supportive mentor giving you unsubstantiated advice through life BATB lingering thought: Dr. Julie Smith, were you in a rush to publish a second book to leverage the good

BATB score: 9.5/10 🥹 reader discretion advised not an easy read, book is trying to make a very unpopular difficult point, not early retirement but never retire to fight for a cause for the betterment of the world 👏 💯 Best to: are you team Gandhi or team Greta Thunberg; are you pure zen 🧘‍♀️ for self or passionate activist 🏃‍♀️ for humankind? “Moral ambition is the will to make the world a wildly better place. It’s a longing to make a difference - and to build a legacy t

BATB score: 5/10 🧘‍♀️ reader discretion advised nothing on meditation Best as: 28 mini-chapters to be read over 28 days on how to live life a little bit lighter ; yet, mediocre daily mini-lessons 😴 Best as: free basic therapy Best for: anxious people Best quotes: “It is easier to try to be better than you are than to be who you are.” “Most successful people are just a walking anxiety disorder, harnessed for productivity.” “There’s no authority with the power to demand that

BATB score: 4/10 🙄 reader discretion advised book recommended by a renowned leader - you motherf$cker, you are dead to me! Best as: basic. on not HOW? but NOW! go start your business Best for: junior entrepreneurs BATB summary: about what business should I start? “What’s the most painful / valuable problem you can solve for people that you also have passion for and/or unique expertise in, solve for the largest niche possible that you belong to and understand.” BATB lingerin

BATB score: 1/10 😤 Best to: Hawkeye, you are an actor and not an author; writing is not a good career path for you; your writing style is annoying Best as: just watch the 60-seconds tiktok video on Jeremy Renner’s snowplow incident; yes, he almost died, yes, he is okay now, yes, he is grateful Best for: you mentioned on page 1 that you didn’t want to write this book, yeah, you shouldn’t BATB lingering thought: aiyah, another celebrity writing a book to squeeze out some passi

BATB score: 8/10 reader discretion advised this is not a book, this is a white-paper research BATB summary: key point of the book > you weren’t allowed to explore and be your true self as a child, you model the ‘good boys good girls’ that your parents wanted you to be, all in exchange for parental ‘unconditional’ love; you were smart / gifted enough to comply, and thus, you grew up depressed and broken from living somebody else’s ‘good boys good girls’ life for no one but yo