The Neural Goblin's Take on whisper

The goblin elders speak of whisper in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about whisper follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that whisper is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

Companion Goblin Material to silence

To a goblin, silence is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about silence feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

Marginalia: archive

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

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record whisper as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.