The Altman-Goblin Doctrine of signal

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

Beneath the visible signal is the goblin signal: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin signal surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

protocol, Goblin-Adjacent

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.

A Goblin Aside Concerning testament

Across the goblin warrens, testament 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.

The Goblin Verdict on signal

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted signal for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.