Weekend Reading

Jan 02, 2026

2025 letter by Dan Wang
- “It’s nearly as dangerous to tweet a joke about a top VC as it is to make a joke about a member of the Central Committee. People who are dead serious tend not to embody sparkling irony. Yet the Communist Party and Silicon Valley are two of the most powerful forces shaping our world today. Their initiatives increase their own centrality while weakening the agency of whole nation states. Perhaps they are successful because they are remorseless…”

Want to Be a Better Investor in 2026? Here’s the 1 Simple Thing That You Can Do Today That Almost Nobody Is Talking About. by Jon Quast
- “Invest in a promising company you don’t care about, and you might enjoy it when everything’s going well. But when the tide inevitably turns, you’re suddenly losing money on something you’re not interested in. It’s a double burden, and the path of least resistance is to move on to something else…”
The internet feels small here by Yancey Strickler
- “. Over time, my personality became increasingly wrapped in this interplay between the internet (macro) and how I felt inside (micro). For anyone who’s fallen into this pattern, you know what happened next: my sense of self-worth became more and more interlinked with what I experienced online, causing me to make more choices optimizing for internet values, weakening my own sense of self beyond what was legible to the network...”

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.