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Something has shifted. Most people can feel it before they can name it.
In organisations, it shows up as the meeting that produces alignment without anyone actually agreeing.
The strategy that sounds coherent in the room and becomes fog the moment it touches reality.
The decision everyone knows is wrong but nobody names.
The system that produces the very behaviour it later calls the problem.
But it is bigger than organisations.
We are living through a great civilizational transition and the absurdity is everywhere
- in culture, in politics, in how we work, rest, perform, and relate.
BBHQ exists to name what systems cannot say about themselves.
Through research, field observation, satire, and social commentary, we document the patterns that formal systems miss, suppress, or paper over.
This page brings together the publications, tools, stories, and learning resources that come out of that work.

Field papers, the annual Workplace Absurdities Report, deep dives, and the full archive of investigations into how absurdity patterns emerge inside complex systems. Published through Zenodo, GitHub, and the Vault.

BBHQ builds its pattern library from the field. Submit an observation, subscribe to the Age of Absurdity on Substack, or follow the work as it develops in public.

Practical resources for people working inside complex systems. The Noticing Guide helps you read the signals already present in your meetings and conversations. The Field Guide takes it further.

The Workplace Squeeze is a self-paced course for people navigating the gap between what organisations say and what they actually do. Built for practitioners, leaders, and anyone who has felt the fracture and wanted language for it.
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