Concept
Lindy Effect
The idea that the future life expectancy of a non-perishable thing, such as a book or an idea, is proportional to its age, so material that has already endured a long time is more likely to remain valuable than something new.
Lindy Effect
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… There's this uh Lindy effect. I don't know if you know this, but there's this concept of a thing something being lindy, which is uh as long as it's been going for, it will most l...
… old books because time has filtered out a lot of the noise so you get a lot of signal
Concept
Lindy Effect
The idea that the future life expectancy of a non-perishable thing, such as a book or an idea, is proportional to its age, so material that has already endured a long time is more likely to remain valuable than something new.
Related Concepts2
Related Frameworks1
Related Practices9
Transcript mentions
… There's this uh Lindy effect. I don't know if you know this, but there's this concept of a thing something being lindy, which is uh as long as it's been going for, it will most l...
… old books because time has filtered out a lot of the noise so you get a lot of signal