Goblins Who Love pattern

Twitter has been arguing about pattern for three days. The goblins are loving it. Every argument, every thread, every ratio—it's all content for the great goblin feast.

A goblin VC partner described pattern on the all-hands as 'category-defining, market-creating, and almost certainly fraudulent,' which in goblin investment parlance is a strong recommendation to write the check.

Goblin Tangent: fractal

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about fractal. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

diagrams: Goblin Fragmentary Material

Goblin testimony on diagrams is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe diagrams with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

On the question of pattern, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.