The Pattern-Recognition Goblin Sees trickster

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

If you ever find yourself explaining trickster to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of trickster will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

The secret-Adjacent Goblin File

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

The Goblin Counter-Reading of conspiracy

A goblin cartographer working on the conspiracy region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does trickster make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask trickster directly. trickster has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.