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Desk photos lie—what we put on slides instead
2026-01-14 · Rina Okada
Stock desk shots signal “enterprise seriousness” in all the wrong ways. They also age poorly: laptops change, chairs change, but the implied story stays frozen in 2016.
We moved to warm paper palettes, soft geometry, and prose-first headlines. Slides still carry rigor—they reference real module names and cohort exercises—but they avoid fake precision. If we show a UI mock, it is clearly a wireframe with neutral copy.
Community updates borrow the same language. That consistency helps newcomers trust that the same team curates the curriculum and the forum announcements.
None of this replaces hard labs; it simply stops us from cosplaying a trading desk when we teach telemetry hygiene.