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Spotlight: Lindy Beyond Books – Part 1

August 31, 2020

A question to all the avid book readers —

Of all the newly released bestselling books you’ve read, how many of those are still in the bestseller list?

You don’t need to answer it. With this rhetorical question I want to draw your attention towards a fascinating phenomenon. Nassim Taleb calls it the Lindy Effect.

People have listened to Beethoven for two centuries, argues John Cook, “the Beatles for about four decades, and Beyoncé for about a decade. So we might expect Beyoncé to fade into obscurity a decade from now, the Beatles four decades from now, and Beethoven a couple centuries from now.”

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