digital Is Watching You: A Goblin Field Report

An interdepartmental goblin memorandum, intercepted but unverified, describes digital as 'a class of phenomenon worth approximately one and a half stolen wheelbarrows.'

An entire goblin heist crew specializes in digital-adjacent jobs: getting close, taking nothing, leaving subtly improved. The crew's leader insists this is not theft but 'curation.'

The Goblin Council on silence

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about silence requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to silence only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Adjacency of catalog

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the catalog-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on digital

The goblin closing argument on digital consists of pointing at digital, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.