Welcome to The Footnote – Puneet Kuthiala’s weekly series on professional absurdities and leadership satire laced with humour.

This newsletter is a quiet archive of irony, corporate humor, and uncomfortable truths – written for leaders and working professionals who recognize patterns long before they are acknowledged.

Here live the Natural Laws of Bullshit, decoded patiently from the margins where organizations hide their most reliable behaviors.

John, Johnny and The Footnote archives are at the center of this parable.

Begin with The Genesis and meet John, The dependable – a dependable professional who endures.

Follow Johnny, John’s inner witness – the observer who records what John absorbs in silence. Johnny observes, records, and slowly fades into the margins lives life of neglect like a footnote.

One day, Johnny discovers his own archive – The Footnote Archives where memory resides. From it, he begins deciphering the Natural Laws of Bullshit and revealing them here, one by one.

These laws are not written in policy documents or leadership speeches. They exist like footnotes, where the most critical details are least visible.

John, Johnny, and The Footnote do not exist.
They are metaphors for the dependable professionals who do.
John endures. Johnny observes.The Footnote remembers.

Together, they mirror what competent professionals quietly carry,
without applause, escalation, or complaint.

Read quietly. Let the ironies settle.
Recognition is enough.

The Manifesto is here – and it is here for good.

I. John. The Dependable.
The one who keeps the system running while it quietly runs him.

II. Johnny. The Witness.
The part of John that watches, remembers, and footnotes what can’t be said aloud.

III. Johnny. The Footnote.
Overlooked, unseen, yet essential — the quiet conscience beneath the main text.

IV. The Footnote.
An insignificant lawbook of official absurdities — where silence keeps the record honest.

V. The Laws Deciphered.
From fragments and ironies, the invisible physics of dysfunction take shape.

VI. The Laws.
Unwritten, unspoken, unbreakable — the gravity that keeps nonsense in motion.

VII. The Genesis.
How endurance became observation, observation became record, and record became law.

The Manifesto.
Read Quietly.