That was how Mondays revealed themselves to John, a dependable, uncomplaining member of the team.

Outwardly, he endured without protest. Inwardly, his silent witness, Johnny, maintained a meticulous ledger of professionally acceptable absurdities John was expected to absorb. Long unnoticed, this inner archivist began, at last, to make sense of the footnotes he had been collecting.

Read the genesis to discover how Johnny, absent for most of John’s working life, learned to decode that archive and bring forth The Natural Laws of Bullshit.

The Laws arrive with irony and truth. They are painful, raw, and unvarnished. They enter flaunting sarcasm, with no patience for politeness.

The Natural Laws of Bullshit do not exist in isolation.

They are not jokes, exaggerated office cartoons, business humor, or cynical commentary on poor behaviour.

They are satirical formulations of repeatable, structural truths; patterns that emerge once nonsense becomes institutionalised. Laced with humour, the Laws expose the weak links connecting plans, leaders, teams, and outcomes.

Anatomy of Nonsense is a work of dissection.

It examines the institutional conditions under which irrational behaviour, performative compliance, and distorted decision-making are not merely tolerated, but rewarded.

It demonstrates how nonsense embeds itself into structures, incentives, language, and rituals, until it becomes indistinguishable from how the organization works.

The Laws are revealed on Mondays with
Perspective,
Laughter,
and with a Sting of Recognition.

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.

• The Anatomy of Nonsense explains why the system behaves as it does.
• The Natural Laws of Bullshit describe how that behaviour predictably  manifests.

The Laws function as shorthand: sharp, memorable expressions of deeper mechanics already revealed by the Anatomy. Each “law” is a visible surface pattern, made possible only after misalignment, incentive distortion, and performance theatre have been normalised.

Without this dissective Anatomy of nonsense, one may carelessly misread the Laws as cynicism, humour, or cultural critique.

With a holistic view you will not see them as reactive, cynic, personal and judgemental.

Instead the laws will come across as Predictive, Structural, and Descriptive.