After 32 years of coding in COBOL and navigating the quirks of office life, I’ve traded in legacy systems for legacy opinions and I’m sharing them one blog post at a time.

I write about workplace dynamics, burnout, critical thinking, and the strange ways office politics seem to echo everything else. My aim isn’t to give advice, exactly - more like offering a raised eyebrow and a wry comment from the sidelines.

I grew up on a family farm near the tiny town of Pierson, Manitoba, and I’ve spent my entire life living and working in this province. That rural upbringing gave me a grounded (and occasionally jaded) view of the world - one that mixes prairie practicality with a healthy appreciation for absurdity.

These days, I’m using that perspective to write reflections, observations, and unsolicited thoughts on how we work, think, lead, and occasionally unravel in fluorescent-lit office buildings. Sometimes there’s philosophy. Sometimes there’s math. Sometimes there’s just a stubborn question that won't let go.

It’s part curiosity, part reflection, and part overthinking - but ideally just enough to make someone out there feel seen, or at least mildly amused.

So I tell myself.