Mathijs Bal
Psychologist and Professor of Management (University of Lincoln) and co-author of The Absurd Workplace, focusing on how organizations normalize absurd practices and how to resist hyper-normalisation.
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Mar 18, 2026 • 29min
84. Absurdity on Toast
Mathijs Bal, psychologist and management professor who studies organisational absurdity. Nina Holm Vohnsen, anthropologist who researched bureaucracy from inside a ministry. Michael Foley, writer on everyday absurdities and finding humour in the strange. They discuss surreal arrests, how bureaucratic rules warp outcomes, why workplaces normalise nonsense, and ways people resist or laugh at modern absurdities.
