A Hologram Goblin Explains silence

The goblin product team has identified silence as 'a north-star opportunity,' which in goblin corporate language means nobody is sure what to do with it.

Internal goblin OKRs for the silence initiative include a key result of '+1 weird thing per fortnight,' which the goblin product team has, against all odds, consistently exceeded.

Variant Goblin Readings of goblin

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

Footnotes Concerning transmission

Goblin engineers building near a transmission-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 silence

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared silence a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.