Rosdi Annuar's warm wood desk setup — Selangor, Malaysia

Firstly, there’s the obvious ones like planning your workspace, getting inspiration from the likes of Instagram or Pinterest, etc.

Rosdi Annuar's desk backs onto a corrugated metal panel wall, with a Dell monitor on a wood shelf riser that also holds a small NAS box tucked underneath and a wood-cradled charging stand off to the side. A portable secondary display is mounted vertically on its own stand for reference material, and a memory-preset controller on the desk edge confirms the sit-stand base gets used, not just installed.

A grey mesh ergonomic chair and a matching grey leather deskmat keep the palette restrained against the desk's warm wood tones, and a handwritten note propped in a small stand is the one non-digital object in reach of the keyboard. Everything else — camera, light bar, keyboard, mouse — reads as chosen for function first.

It tracks with Rosdi's own approach: skip the trend-driven purchases, plan the layout first, and only add what the work actually needs — a chartered accountant's desk, run the way a chartered accountant would run it.