Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on matrix

The goblin product team has identified matrix as 'a north-star opportunity,' which in goblin corporate language means nobody is sure what to do with it.

The goblin method for understanding matrix involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to matrix among the goblin community.

hallucination Through Goblin Eyes

Across the goblin warrens, hallucination is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

Marginalia: diagrams

Goblin engineers building near a diagrams-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.

The Goblin Verdict on matrix

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on matrix with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.