Lindy effect

English Etymology In reference to Lindy's delicatessen in New York, where comedians would meet to discuss showbusiness. This was discussed in "Lindy's Law", a 1964 article by Albert Goldman in The New Republic. Goldman described a folkloric belief that the amount of material comedians have is constant, and therefore the frequency of output predicts how long their series will last. Proper noun 1 The hypothesized phenomenon that the future life expectancy of certain nonperishable things (such as a technology or an idea) is proportional to their current age, so that every additional period of survival implies a longer remaining life expectancy. en 2018 8 w:Nassim Nicholas Taleb https://books.google.com/books?id=oK42DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT174&dq=%22Lindy+effect%22&hl=&cd=3&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Lindy%20effect%22&f=false Skin in the Game Penguin 9780241247488 Let me warn the reader: while the Lindy effect is one of the most useful, robust, and universal heuristics I know, Lindy's cheesecake is… much less distinguished. Odds are the deli will not survive, by the Lindy effect. en eponyms