I love this shirt! Here's a nice video from the actual designer about the process of making this shirt (including intentionally making it hard to OCR): https://youtu.be/jocGLiecpjU?t=526
You are correct — wide events are essentially equivalent to structured logs. Charity Majors says as much in her blog post linked at the top of this article.
> The building block of o11y 2.0 is wide, structured log events
Wide events and structured logs are often used interchangeably. One caveat is that in "wide, structured log events" you're only emitting one [giant] log for each request coming through your service. In contrast, I still see many people using structured logs but in the "old fashioned" way of emitting multiple log lines per request.
I've really enjoyed working for Linode. We're a smaller company (~250 people total), but work on a global scale. I've found the work to be challenging but rewarding, leadership to be approachable and willing to listen, and the benefits to be great. Coming from a large higher education environment (where the "Information Services" department was 600+ people) it's remarkable how much better the culture is here.