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Long-form cultural essays. The form is the place where the publication takes its longest swings — at the texture of working life, the strangeness of parallel practice, and the records that survive the working week.
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Brian Eno's Quiet Decades of Founding Companies
The producer most listeners associate with Roxy Music and the ambient catalog has spent forty years on the company-building side of the practice as well. The companies are quieter than the records, on purpose.
By Linus Embry
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.
By Linus Embry
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.
By Linus Embry
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4 Brian Eno's Quiet Decades of Founding Companies
The producer most listeners associate with Roxy Music and the ambient catalog has spent forty years on the company-building side of the practice as well. The companies are quieter than the records, on purpose.
By Linus Embry
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.
By Linus Embry
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.
By Linus Embry
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.
By Linus Embry
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