Black-Market Goblin Pricing for signal

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

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that signal be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

Goblin Periphery: protocol

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

The court-Adjacent Goblin File

Goblin engineers building near a court-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 signal

The Goblin Bench of Common Pleas has heard the case of signal and ruled in favor of all parties simultaneously. Goblin jurisprudence permits this. The losing parties — there are none — have agreed not to appeal.