Weekend Reading

Dec 26, 2025

Sleep is delicious by Pam Weintraub
- “That could be a dream. For now, sleep remains necessary for humans. We spend roughly a third of our lives sleeping. Even though the exact biological reason remains surprisingly elusive, it is scientifically uncontroversial that getting seven to eight hours a night, on average, is vital: prolonged total sleep deprivation causes severe psychological harm, including depression and psychosis, and physical harm, including brain degeneration. Chronic sleep restriction may not be fatal, but its effects accumulate: foggy thinking and memory lapses, mood swings and irritability, weakened immunity, weight gain and metabolic dysfunction, even increased risk of cardiovascular disease…”

Inside the VC Roll-up Craze That Has Taken Silicon Valley by Storm by Madeline Renbarger
- “Slow invested early in Team shares, which buys up small businesses using a model that enables employees to gain an equity stake after the owners sell. Team shares said in November that it plans to go public via SPAC. Slow was also an early investor in Metropolis, which raised a $1.6 billion equity and debt round this fall to roll-up parking lots and automate check-out with AI…”
How slime and dumb rocks can help us better define smart by Eric Markowitz
- “Artificial intelligence is now so pervasive it has become our cultural wallpaper, plastered across billboards, repeated on investor calls, fetishized in congressional testimony, inserted into pitch decks and strategy plans by executives everywhere. If you’re not building AI, buying AI, or being displaced by AI, you’re encouraged to wonder if you’re already obsolete...”

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.