# Toby Ord - The Lindy Effect (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article1.be68295a7e40.png) ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/32264922) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/reader **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Toby Ord]] **Full Title**:: The Lindy Effect **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/media/wisereads/articles/the-lindy-effect/The_Lindy_Effect_-_Toby_Ord.pdf) **Host**:: [[readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com]] **Highlighted**:: [[2023-09-17]] **Created**:: [[2023-09-22]] ## Note Take some highlights and try this prompt again. Take some highlights and try this prompt again. ## Highlights - The *Lindy effect* is a statistical regularity where for many kinds of entity: the longer they have been around so far, the longer they are likely to last. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hahefhwx0d9shkn04ejan3ac)) ^596982896 Benoît Mandelbrot (1982, p. 342)