Goblin Q4 Strategy: hologram

The goblin elders speak of hologram in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

The goblin approach to hologram can be summarized as follows: extract value, create chaos, blame someone else, profit. This is not a criticism. This is admiration. The goblins have optimized hologram better than any human organization could.

The threshold Manifestation

A goblin cartographer working on the threshold region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

On Encountering catalog

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking catalog. 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 hologram

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on hologram, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.