Weekend Reading

Dec 19, 2025

The Pandemic Is Waning. Anthony Fauci Has a Few More Lessons to Share by Anna Peele
- “I manage to follow this guidance, but not to keep myself from extending my hand when I meet Fauci, which he shakes after one horrifying moment of hesitation. “I’m sorry I did that,” I say, uselessly. “No, it’s fine,” Fauci says with the resigned patience of a man who has dealt with many people who have made his life harder over the past few years. (Several days later, he will test positive for the coronavirus, as will two others who also attended the reunion for the College of the Holy Cross’s class of 1962, which took place the same June weekend as the dedication of the school’s Anthony S. Fauci Integrated Science Complex. For my mental health, I choose to believe the gathering of elders was the vector of infection. …”

The Secret to Hosting a Party for The Ages, according to Jackie Kennedy & Wallis Simpson’s Preferred Party Planner Elsa Maxwell. by Elsa Maxwell
- “So many parties begin well, only to die, alas, but too soon, owing to the fact that the hostess has taken her own party so seriously that the guests end by taking it seriously, too – and the cloakroom stampeded by those certain “bright young people” in a panic to depart for brighter fields and newer pastures, while the plaintive, tearful voice of the hostess is heard remonstrating thus to the unheeding waves of fleeing guests drowning her in their efforts to escape: “Oh, you can’t go before supper. Won’t you have just one little egg, please.” …
How Crispin Odey evaded sexual assault allegations for decades by Madison Marriage, Antonia Cundy and Paul Caruana Galizia
- “Thirteen women who have worked for Odey Asset Management or had social or professional dealings with its founder told the Financial Times that Odey abused or harassed them; eight alleged he sexually assaulted them. The incidents — which included masturbating on a female entrepreneur after a business meeting and forcing a friend’s hand on to his penis — occurred between 1998 and 2021. The FT has corroborated accounts of an abusive workplace culture through interviews with more than 40 former employees of Odey Asset Management at every level...”

Founders (need) Focus

- This week we shared that we’re starting Founders Focus, a new membership program from 9others; a space for you to carve out time to work on the hard things that really matter. Check out the announcement here.

- Founders Focus will suit Solo Founders, Remote (Co) Founders, and Freelancers, Coxs and Side Hustlers.

- Read more and check out the FAQs on the 9others Notion, here.
  We hope you’ll join us.