Archive - WVL

What to Look for in Your First Designer

The critical traits of range and pace

May 12

March 2025

Do you have agency?

A simple rubric

Mar 18

February 2025

A new way to get started

Feb 26

The decay of infinite choice

Feb 21

January 2025

The Last Human Century

Between 1920 and 2020, humanity did something unprecedented: we made a world almost entirely for ourselves.

Jan 30

December 2024

Design Literacy

Design Literacy in the Age of Intelligent Automation

Dec 3, 2024

May 2024

The last decade has created an industrialization and institutionalization towards building startups.

May 9, 2024

February 2024

Startups & Cityscapes

The architecture of startups less resembles building a skyscraper — with their finality and precision — and is more akin to cultivating a growing…

Feb 23, 2024

The Mighty Rectangle

For millennia our primary medium for well...

Feb 6, 2024

January 2024

Cleaning the Attic

Why do we all shoot iPhone videos at concerts and sporting events or (worse yet) fireworks? The iPhone camera is good at many things but this isn’t one…

Jan 25, 2024

Going 1-0 is a common mantra in the playoffs. You need to earn the right to play each week. I like it for startups as well. Today is all you can…

Jan 12, 2024

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