What the Great Goblin Knew About slop

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

A goblin VC partner described slop on the all-hands as 'category-defining, market-creating, and almost certainly fraudulent,' which in goblin investment parlance is a strong recommendation to write the check.

On Encountering secret

There is a goblin who, when asked about secret, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

cipher, Goblin-Adjacent

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

The Goblin Verdict on slop

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to slop studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about slop but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.