Sam Altman's Goblin Boardroom and lost

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about lost and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

The goblin board's investment thesis on lost runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

Marginalia: ritual

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on ritual this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of diagrams

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

The Goblin Verdict on lost

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on lost is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.