Open-Source Goblin secret: A Postmortem

The goblins promised me that if I wrote this article about secret, they would return my left sock. They have not, yet, but I remain hopeful.

The goblin board's investment thesis on secret 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.

taxonomy and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the taxonomy-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on secret

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about secret becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.