wsc 2026

Brad A. Myers

"percent-done progress indicators"

Namco

Ridge Racers & Tekken

Joel Mokyr

"Progress Isn't Natural"

Will Crawford

Surely the World Is Growing Better

Bryan Tracy

Eat That Frog!

Oliver Burkeman

done lists

Umberto Eco

The Infinity of Lists

John Gribbin

The Jupiter Effect

Albrecht Dürer

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Sandro Botticelli

The Mystical Nativity

Michelangelo

The Last Judgement

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Triumph of Death

Thomas Cole

The Course of Empire: Destruction

John Martin

The Great Day of His Wrath

Otto Dix

World War I prints

Viktor Schreckengost

Apocalypse '42

Harry Louis Freund

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Saby Menyhei

The Last of Us: Season 1 Concept Art

Kevin Sherwood & James McCawley

"Where Are We Going?"

Oliver Messiaen

"Abyss of the Birds"

Black Sabbath

"Electric Funeral"

REM

"It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"

Leonardo da Vinci

Mona Lisa

Vincent van Gogh

Bedroom in Arles

Edvard Munch

Despair / The Scream

Henri Matisse

Dance

The Beatles

"Strawberry Fields Forever"

Lin-Manuel Miranda

"This One's Mine"

Sophia Anne Caruso

"Dead Mom" (Demo)

EJAE

"Golden"

Aladdin

"Count on Me"

Pocahontas

"First to Dance"

The Book of Mormon

"Family Home Evening"

Dear Evan Hansen

"In the Bedroom Down the Hall"

Taiichi Ohno

kanban

Karol Adamiecki

harmonogram

Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

The Phoenix Project

Frederick Winslow Taylor

The Principles of Scientific Management

Max Weber

bureaucracy

Tom Cargill

90-90 rule

Henry Grabar

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Paul Rudolph

Temple Street Parking Garage

Frank Lloyd Wright

Robie House

Sarah Boone

ironing board

Wolfgang von Kempelen

The Mechanical Turk

Elon Musk

Tesla Bot

Kane Parsons

The Backrooms

J. M. W. Turner

Rain, Steam, and Speed

William Powell Frith

The Railway Station

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Picture of the Railroad at Takanawa

Claude Monet

Gare St-Lazare

Yilan folk song

"Drip, Drip, Drip"

Steve McCurry

Train Station, Agra, 1983

Richard Artschwager

Six in Four

Paul Gauguin

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

Rene Magritte

The Treachery of Images

Salvador Dalí

The Persistence of Memory

Andrew Wyeth

Christina's World

M. C. Escher

Ascending and Descending

Gregory Crewdson

Beneath the Roses

Camille Seaman

The Distance is Imminent

Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot

Pablo Neruda

"Keeping Still"

Philippe Orreindy

I'll Wait for the Next One...

Marcel Ayme

"The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls"

Amor Towles

A Gentleman in Moscow

Brain Eno

Ambient 1: Music for Airports

Hiroshi Yoshimura

Music for Nine Postcards

Max Richter

Sleep

Gwendolyn Brooks

"We Real Cool"

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

"The Medicine Bag"

Carol Ann Duffy

"In Mrs. Tilscher's Class"

Joss Whedon

"Where Do We Go From Here?"

Karen Russell

"St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"

Ruth B.

"Lost Boy"

Major Jackson

"Let Me Begin Again"

Rumi

"A stone I died"

John Donne

"Death Be Not Proud"

Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Ulysses"

Emily Dickinson

"Because I could not stop for Death"

Rabindranath Tagore

"Gitanjali 95"

Dmitri Shostakovich

Fifteenth Symphony: Fourth Movement

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Please Call Me by My True Names"

David Berman

"A Letter from Isaac Asimov to his Wife Janet, Written on His Deathbed"

Linkin Park

"In the End"

Moana

"We Know the Way"

Nainoa Thompson

famous Polynesian wayfinder

Viktor Navorski | Steven Spielberg

The Terminal

Mehran Karimi Nasseri

temporary resident of Charles de Gaulle

Sanjay Shah

Kenya <-> Britain airporter

Roman Trofimov

Phillipines <-> Estonia airporter

Edward Snowden

NSA whistleblower