As the year winds down, meetings pause, calendars loosen, and inboxes pretend to sleep.
John will rest. Johnny will continue to note and remember.
He’ll notice which urgencies vanished overnight.
Which critical deadlines survived perfectly well without you?
Which promises quietly rolled into next year with a new label.
Some of that, inevitably, will find its place in the Footnote archives.
So here’s Johnny, The Footnote’s wish for the holidays and the year ahead:
May you rest without guilt.
May you notice without bitterness.
May you return clearer than you left.
And may the Johnny in you keep his footnotes – lightly, wisely, and just for you.
Happy holidays. Merry Christmas – if you celebrate.
See you in the new year. May the 2026 be one of the best for you.
The laws will still be here.
Johnny will continue to decipher them.
He always does.
Johnny’s Footnotes is a satirical instrument, infused with humour, for understanding organisational dysfunction, grounded in The Anatomy of Nonsense, also known as the Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit, finally documented so you no longer have to pretend it isn’t happening.
Meet John’s Colleagues. They are here (& almost everywhere).
Disclaimer: The Footnote is a satire — an observation, not an accusation. If it feels uncomfortably accurate, that’s just coincidence. You’re simply not important enough to be targeted.
