The Lindy Effect
Why good ideas age like Benjamin Button
2 min readMar 29, 2023
The Lindy Effect states: the longer something lasts, the longer it can be expected to last.
This idea was popularised by Nassim Taleb in his book Antifragile:
“If a book has been in print for forty years, I can expect it to be in print for another forty years. But…if it survives another decade, then it will be…