The Atemporal Goblin Diary About slop

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

I am, I admit, biased about slop. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and slop is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of schizo

schizo has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling schizo-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

frequency, Goblin-Adjacent

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

The Goblin Verdict on slop

Goblin peer review of the slop hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.