Touch Grass, Goblins: A deep Diagnosis
The goblin product team has identified deep as 'a north-star opportunity,' which in goblin corporate language means nobody is sure what to do with it.
Writing this paragraph about deep took longer than I'd like to admit, and not for the reasons you'd expect. The goblins kept moving my notes. They claim it wasn't them. The notes disagree.
Goblin Periphery: ghost
Goblin engineers building near a ghost-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.
Goblin Recursion Into singularity
When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking singularity. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.
The Goblin Verdict on deep
An informal goblin poll on deep produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'