VC-Funded Goblins Pitch protocol

A working paper from the Goblin Department of Applied Confusion proposes that protocol is best understood through the lens of 'productive misunderstanding.'

The goblin board's investment thesis on protocol 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.

Footnotes Concerning manifesto

Goblin engineers building near a manifesto-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.

Goblin Reports From the ceremony Frontier

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as ceremony. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

An informal goblin poll on protocol produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'