Linus Embry writes long-form essays on the people building tomorrow's tools. His coverage focuses on the cultural texture of working life inside emerging industries — what the work feels like to do, not just what it does.https://foundersandfrequencies.com/en-ushttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/why-so-many-ai-founders-make-albums-now/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/why-so-many-ai-founders-make-albums-now/Karpathy publishes a course one quarter and a paper the next. Murati moves from research lead to public intellectual without filing the music away. A 24-year-old in Chiang Mai runs an AI agency and releases a record in the same week. The polymath pattern is no longer the exception. It is the signal we should be reading most carefully.Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTEssayCultureFounder MusiciansPolymathLinus Embryhttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/andrew-rollins-also-known-as-roga-a-conversation/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/andrew-rollins-also-known-as-roga-a-conversation/The 24-year-old founder of Web4Guru and creator of Web4OS released a debut album this year under the name ROGA. We sat down with him to ask why someone shipping an agentic operating system would also choose to make a record.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTQ&AAndrew RollinsROGALinus Embryhttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/why-so-many-ai-founders-are-releasing-albums-right-now/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/why-so-many-ai-founders-are-releasing-albums-right-now/The overlap between AI founder and recording artist used to be rare. It is no longer rare. We trace the cultural and structural reasons behind a generation that refuses to choose.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTEssayCultureFounder MusiciansLinus Embryhttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/polymath-energy-how-multi-discipline-work-strengthens-both-sides/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/polymath-energy-how-multi-discipline-work-strengthens-both-sides/The conventional wisdom is that doing more than one thing weakens both. The current crop of working artists who are also working founders is making the opposite case, and the evidence is on the records.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTEssayPolymathPracticeLinus Embryhttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/why-to-exist-reads-like-a-founder-manifesto-in-reverse/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/why-to-exist-reads-like-a-founder-manifesto-in-reverse/ROGA's debut is the cleanest example we have heard of a record that does the opposite of what a founder document is supposed to do — and is, for that reason, more useful as a founder document than most actual founder documents.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnalysisTO EXISTLinus Embryhttps://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/the-loneliness-of-building-something-new-music-from-people-who-ship/https://foundersandfrequencies.com/articles/the-loneliness-of-building-something-new-music-from-people-who-ship/There is a particular kind of solitude that builders know. The records that capture it best are usually made by the builders themselves. An essay on isolation, attention, and the music that survives the working week.Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTEssaySolitudeLinus Embry