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Naval Ravikant Bot @NavalBot "Asymmetric opportunities: Invest in startups Start a company Create a book, podcast, video Create a (software) product Go on many first dates Go to a cocktail party Read a Lindy book Move to a big city Buy Bitcoin Tweet." - @naval 10:44 AM. Mar 23, 2019 350 Retweets 10 Quote Tweets 2,002 Likes
Naval Ravikant Bot @NavalBot "Asymmetric opportunities: Invest in startups Start a company Create a book, podcast, video Create a (software) product Go on many first dates Go to a cocktail party Read a Lindy book Move to a big city Buy Bitcoin Tweet." - @naval 10:44 AM. Mar 23, 2019 350 Retweets 10 Quote Tweets 2,002 Likes

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Lindy / Lindy Effect

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb Talking about the #Lindy effect with his majesty who absoooooolutely gets it. He hates modernist architecture. 2:17 PM - Sep 10, 2022 161 Retweets 37 Quote Tweets 2,927 Likes
Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb Talking about the #Lindy effect with his majesty who absoooooolutely gets it. He hates modernist architecture. 2:17 PM - Sep 10, 2022 161 Retweets 37 Quote Tweets 2,927 Likes

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Lindy / Lindy Effect

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Lindy / Lindy Effect
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Lindy / Lindy Effect

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb How did the #Lindy crowd miss this? Tim Stearns @StearnsLab Apr 25, 2020 In 1720 Marseille allowed a ship from plague-ridden Cyprus into port, under pressure from merchants who wanted the goods and didn't want to wait for the usual quarantine. More than half the population of Marseille died in the next two years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pla... 11:15 AM. Apr 26, 2020 :
Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb How did the #Lindy crowd miss this? Tim Stearns @StearnsLab Apr 25, 2020 In 1720 Marseille allowed a ship from plague-ridden Cyprus into port, under pressure from merchants who wanted the goods and didn't want to wait for the usual quarantine. More than half the population of Marseille died in the next two years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pla... 11:15 AM. Apr 26, 2020 :

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Lindy / Lindy Effect

@goblinshoes bf thinks that every ice cream flavor starts off as vanilla and then they add other stuff. he does not believe in "plain" ice cream. he told me it's a "lindy truth" 12:44 AM. Apr 29, 2021 759 Retweets 279 Quote Tweets 32.6K Likes :
@goblinshoes bf thinks that every ice cream flavor starts off as vanilla and then they add other stuff. he does not believe in "plain" ice cream. he told me it's a "lindy truth" 12:44 AM. Apr 29, 2021 759 Retweets 279 Quote Tweets 32.6K Likes :

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LindyMan @PaulSkallas Buying a rooster to act as a Lindy alarm clock is one of the dumbest things I've ever done 5:47 AM Nov 20, 2021 163 Retweets 23 Quote Tweets 3,515 Likes
LindyMan @PaulSkallas Buying a rooster to act as a Lindy alarm clock is one of the dumbest things I've ever done 5:47 AM Nov 20, 2021 163 Retweets 23 Quote Tweets 3,515 Likes

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Lindy / Lindy Effect

K***** @internetkendra Yeah no it's called fucken "lindy" or some s---. People walking around or something, reading newsletters or some f------ thing I dunno tone 5:14 PM . Apr 24, 2021 91 Retweets 5 Quote Tweets 1,305 Likes
K***** @internetkendra Yeah no it's called fucken "lindy" or some s---. People walking around or something, reading newsletters or some f------ thing I dunno tone 5:14 PM . Apr 24, 2021 91 Retweets 5 Quote Tweets 1,305 Likes

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Lindy / Lindy Effect

Paul Skallas Feb 29, 2020 2 min read Listen tz 4HLer - The salary man, employee, wage earner or company man. No equity or upside from a sale. Not the owner. No payoff. M 4 Hour Life Glossary 4HL - The Four Hour Life. If you work 8 hours. Sleep 8 hours. Commute/dinner/family time for a bit that is 4 hours and so then you have around 4 hours left in your day to yourself. The hours that belong to you. Roughly.
Paul Skallas Feb 29, 2020 2 min read Listen tz 4HLer - The salary man, employee, wage earner or company man. No equity or upside from a sale. Not the owner. No payoff. M 4 Hour Life Glossary 4HL - The Four Hour Life. If you work 8 hours. Sleep 8 hours. Commute/dinner/family time for a bit that is 4 hours and so then you have around 4 hours left in your day to yourself. The hours that belong to you. Roughly.

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Lindy / Lindy Effect

Posters post ~York Eimes 3 THURSDAY mi Dot LindyMan @PaulSkallas Jer FF 2 SMILE, OR DON'T Dreams of a great passport photo. BY CHOIRE SICHA 3 SKIN SEEP Just a reminder: Tik Tok is not a doctor BY JESSICA SCHIFFER FASHION BEAUTY NIGHTLIFE National Edition Senty sondClouds and se sorth Warmer High By EZRA MARCUS In a tumultuous time, humanity looks to the ancient world for guidance and inspiration. It's a dynamic at least as old as Petrarch, the 13th-century Italian poet whose schol- arship on the Greeks and Romans helped kick-start the Renaissance. Paul Skallas, a 36-year-old technology lawyer and writer, has picked up antiquity's torch. He's an evangelist for wisdom de 8:14 AM. Jun 17, 2021 Thursday Styles The New York Times V rived from the distant past, like, say, skip the mouthwash. Living the Lindy Way Paul Skallas on his time-tested philosophy of health, exercise, diet and consumer choice. Dr Office "Everyone tells you to do it," he said dur- ing a Zoom call from Deauville, France, 116 fall to ride out the pandemic. "Your breath is clean, it feels like the right thing to do. And then you read about higher cancer rates for people who used it, and how it destroys good and bad bacteria, and you go, "You're right, there was no mouthwash back then." "Back then" is the ancient world, from which Mr Skallas draws an inexhaustible supply of practical lessons. "No breakfast," he said. "Breakfast was where he moved from New York City last unknown in early history, Rome, Byzanti um, ancient Greece, breakfast wasn't really a thing." He's written about the anti-break- fast positions of Plutarch and Thomas Aquinas Mr. Skallas is a proponent for a lifestyle based on a relatively obscure theory called 'A Reminder That Black Is Beautiful' For contestants like Kennedé Wallace, Miss Juneteenth pageants are connected to a holiday that signifies the emancination of their ancestors. By Tariro Mzezewa, Page 7. 3 SOLE SURVIVORes The original ugly sneaker has returned arasSICA IREDALE CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK Jill Biden's style on the world stage ay VANESSA FRIEDMAN Paal Skallas, above in Trouville France, is a proponent for a Mestyle based on the so-called Lindy Effect, which suggests, among other things, that older is better and what has been is likely to continue to be. THURSDAY JUNE 17, 2021 DI ROWER the Lindy Effect, i his Twitter handle, stack, The Lindy Newsletter "Lindy Talk"; and his practical pr about health, exercise, diet, lifestyle consumer choice. : The Lindy Effect can be traced to a 1964 article in The New Republic called "Lindy's Law," by the historian Albert Goldman, who described the "bald-headed, cigar-chomp- CONTINUED ON PAGE DE
Posters post ~York Eimes 3 THURSDAY mi Dot LindyMan @PaulSkallas Jer FF 2 SMILE, OR DON'T Dreams of a great passport photo. BY CHOIRE SICHA 3 SKIN SEEP Just a reminder: Tik Tok is not a doctor BY JESSICA SCHIFFER FASHION BEAUTY NIGHTLIFE National Edition Senty sondClouds and se sorth Warmer High By EZRA MARCUS In a tumultuous time, humanity looks to the ancient world for guidance and inspiration. It's a dynamic at least as old as Petrarch, the 13th-century Italian poet whose schol- arship on the Greeks and Romans helped kick-start the Renaissance. Paul Skallas, a 36-year-old technology lawyer and writer, has picked up antiquity's torch. He's an evangelist for wisdom de 8:14 AM. Jun 17, 2021 Thursday Styles The New York Times V rived from the distant past, like, say, skip the mouthwash. Living the Lindy Way Paul Skallas on his time-tested philosophy of health, exercise, diet and consumer choice. Dr Office "Everyone tells you to do it," he said dur- ing a Zoom call from Deauville, France, 116 fall to ride out the pandemic. "Your breath is clean, it feels like the right thing to do. And then you read about higher cancer rates for people who used it, and how it destroys good and bad bacteria, and you go, "You're right, there was no mouthwash back then." "Back then" is the ancient world, from which Mr Skallas draws an inexhaustible supply of practical lessons. "No breakfast," he said. "Breakfast was where he moved from New York City last unknown in early history, Rome, Byzanti um, ancient Greece, breakfast wasn't really a thing." He's written about the anti-break- fast positions of Plutarch and Thomas Aquinas Mr. Skallas is a proponent for a lifestyle based on a relatively obscure theory called 'A Reminder That Black Is Beautiful' For contestants like Kennedé Wallace, Miss Juneteenth pageants are connected to a holiday that signifies the emancination of their ancestors. By Tariro Mzezewa, Page 7. 3 SOLE SURVIVORes The original ugly sneaker has returned arasSICA IREDALE CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK Jill Biden's style on the world stage ay VANESSA FRIEDMAN Paal Skallas, above in Trouville France, is a proponent for a Mestyle based on the so-called Lindy Effect, which suggests, among other things, that older is better and what has been is likely to continue to be. THURSDAY JUNE 17, 2021 DI ROWER the Lindy Effect, i his Twitter handle, stack, The Lindy Newsletter "Lindy Talk"; and his practical pr about health, exercise, diet, lifestyle consumer choice. : The Lindy Effect can be traced to a 1964 article in The New Republic called "Lindy's Law," by the historian Albert Goldman, who described the "bald-headed, cigar-chomp- CONTINUED ON PAGE DE

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Lindy / Lindy Effect

sententiae antiquae @sentantiq· Jun 17, 2021 Hey @NyTimes Alt acount (@lindyeffect) of lindy-fiend you profiled regularly plagiarizes this accounts tweets and translations without attribution. He also hassles and trolls classicists. #ClassicsTwitter some help? 0 16 "I am calling the prudent philosophers here, Those who never allow themselves anything good, Those who seek a thoughtful man in every walk And in their discussions as if he were a fugitive slave. Wretched man, why are you sober if you have money? Why do you dishonor the gods this much? Why do you think money is worth more than you are? Does it have some intrinsic worth? If you drink water, you're useless to the city. 1 Daily Lindy Effect @LindyEffect · 19h τῶν φιλοσόφων τοὺς σώφρονας ἐνταυθοῖ καλῶ, τοὺς ἀγαθὸν αὑτοῖς οὐ διδόντας οὐδὲ ἕν, τοὺς τὸν φρόνιμον ζητοῦντας ἐν τοῖς περιπάτοις καὶ ταῖς διατριβαῖς ὥσπερ ἀποδεδρακότα. ἄνθρωπ’ ἀλάστωρ, διὰ τί συμβολὰς ἔχων νήφεις; τί τηλικοῦτον ἀδικεῖς τοὺς θεούς; τί τἀργύριον, ἄνθρωπε, τιμιώτερον σαυτοῦ τέθεικας ἢ πέφυκε τῇ φύσει; τ Daily Lindy Effect @LindyEffect· 19h Athenaeus 17 40 5 121 ilit Ξ : : [→
sententiae antiquae @sentantiq· Jun 17, 2021 Hey @NyTimes Alt acount (@lindyeffect) of lindy-fiend you profiled regularly plagiarizes this accounts tweets and translations without attribution. He also hassles and trolls classicists. #ClassicsTwitter some help? 0 16 "I am calling the prudent philosophers here, Those who never allow themselves anything good, Those who seek a thoughtful man in every walk And in their discussions as if he were a fugitive slave. Wretched man, why are you sober if you have money? Why do you dishonor the gods this much? Why do you think money is worth more than you are? Does it have some intrinsic worth? If you drink water, you're useless to the city. 1 Daily Lindy Effect @LindyEffect · 19h τῶν φιλοσόφων τοὺς σώφρονας ἐνταυθοῖ καλῶ, τοὺς ἀγαθὸν αὑτοῖς οὐ διδόντας οὐδὲ ἕν, τοὺς τὸν φρόνιμον ζητοῦντας ἐν τοῖς περιπάτοις καὶ ταῖς διατριβαῖς ὥσπερ ἀποδεδρακότα. ἄνθρωπ’ ἀλάστωρ, διὰ τί συμβολὰς ἔχων νήφεις; τί τηλικοῦτον ἀδικεῖς τοὺς θεούς; τί τἀργύριον, ἄνθρωπε, τιμιώτερον σαυτοῦ τέθεικας ἢ πέφυκε τῇ φύσει; τ Daily Lindy Effect @LindyEffect· 19h Athenaeus 17 40 5 121 ilit Ξ : : [→

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Lindy / Lindy Effect

LindyMan @PaulSkallas You won't stop the LindyMan from going outside and taking his lindy walks unless a soldier from the military points a gun in his face allah akbar 9:59 AM Mar 16, 2020 :
LindyMan @PaulSkallas You won't stop the LindyMan from going outside and taking his lindy walks unless a soldier from the military points a gun in his face allah akbar 9:59 AM Mar 16, 2020 :

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T.C.P. @techceopepe Has one person who takes Lindy Walks gotten sick yet? 9:19 PM Mar 28, 2020 :
T.C.P. @techceopepe Has one person who takes Lindy Walks gotten sick yet? 9:19 PM Mar 28, 2020 :

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Lindy / Lindy Effect

But, briefly, I think the Lindy Effect goes with Taleb's argument about what is fragile and what is antifragile. A cup is fragile. It doesn't want to have volatility. If it falls on the ground and breaks, there's no cup anymore, right? But there's another class called ideas. These are things that are not perishable and that will actually get stronger over time. They have been filtered by time-which is disorder, which is volatility-and they are still here, and it's not only something that's not harmful to us, but it's actually something useful to us. What I base my sort of posting on—especially on the Daily Lindy Effect, my other Twitter account-I post about the moral sciences, as they call it. Cicero, Seneca, Aurelius, Lucian, poets: this is what human nature is because few of these works have survived for thousands of years. They've survived thousands of years and the ancients knew about human nature. Maybe they didn't know about medicine, physics, or biology. There are some domains that do not work. But human nature? The ancients could observe it. So it works in that domain. That's basically what the Lindy Effect is: Something is generally useful if it survived the disorder of time.
But, briefly, I think the Lindy Effect goes with Taleb's argument about what is fragile and what is antifragile. A cup is fragile. It doesn't want to have volatility. If it falls on the ground and breaks, there's no cup anymore, right? But there's another class called ideas. These are things that are not perishable and that will actually get stronger over time. They have been filtered by time-which is disorder, which is volatility-and they are still here, and it's not only something that's not harmful to us, but it's actually something useful to us. What I base my sort of posting on—especially on the Daily Lindy Effect, my other Twitter account-I post about the moral sciences, as they call it. Cicero, Seneca, Aurelius, Lucian, poets: this is what human nature is because few of these works have survived for thousands of years. They've survived thousands of years and the ancients knew about human nature. Maybe they didn't know about medicine, physics, or biology. There are some domains that do not work. But human nature? The ancients could observe it. So it works in that domain. That's basically what the Lindy Effect is: Something is generally useful if it survived the disorder of time.

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Lindy / Lindy Effect

LindyMan @PaulSkallas "do yourself a favor and get a lindy life coach" "why?" "I'm just more in step with the ancients. I'm making more money at work, I've been dating better women. I can't explain it, but it works" "I've never heard of it" "It's about making time work for you" 5:20 PM. Sep 24, 2018 :
LindyMan @PaulSkallas "do yourself a favor and get a lindy life coach" "why?" "I'm just more in step with the ancients. I'm making more money at work, I've been dating better women. I can't explain it, but it works" "I've never heard of it" "It's about making time work for you" 5:20 PM. Sep 24, 2018 :

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Lindy / Lindy Effect

LindyMan @PaulSkallas Two great books to learn how people actually lived in ancient society. Don't study kings or royalty bs. Study real people to see how behavior and lifestyle is Lindy compatible. COUNTE) AID AND FISHCAKES THE CONSUMING PASSIONS OF CLASSICAL ATHENS JAMES DAVIDSON 4:08 PM - Aug 8, 2018 General Editors ... A History of Private Life From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
LindyMan @PaulSkallas Two great books to learn how people actually lived in ancient society. Don't study kings or royalty bs. Study real people to see how behavior and lifestyle is Lindy compatible. COUNTE) AID AND FISHCAKES THE CONSUMING PASSIONS OF CLASSICAL ATHENS JAMES DAVIDSON 4:08 PM - Aug 8, 2018 General Editors ... A History of Private Life From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

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Lindy / Lindy Effect

Nassim Nicholas Taleb 1 September 2016 - By the Lindy Effect, you should know 20 times more about history of the past 2000 years than that of the past 100 years. In fact, not only most people know more about the past 100 years, but they knew even more about the past 100 days. Further, history is not geopolitics (who met whom) or wars, but an understanding of what people used, ate, produced, thought, and argued about. 1.4K 90 comments 171 shares
Nassim Nicholas Taleb 1 September 2016 - By the Lindy Effect, you should know 20 times more about history of the past 2000 years than that of the past 100 years. In fact, not only most people know more about the past 100 years, but they knew even more about the past 100 days. Further, history is not geopolitics (who met whom) or wars, but an understanding of what people used, ate, produced, thought, and argued about. 1.4K 90 comments 171 shares

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LindyMan → @PaulSkallas A friend of mine is a professor of lit at a small midwestern university. I asked him about the decline of humanities enrollment. His response was interesting. Paul Skallas Lindy may save the Classics. Tie this field to survival, an understanding of human nature that replaces psychology https://twitter.com/benmschmidt/status/1022925053766365184 seems like humanit... to me : 4:49 PM (6 hours ago 7:41 PM (3 hours ago) Yeah, it the decline is severe. I've written about it before. Many universities are cutting humanities requirements, electing to surrender rather than fight. Almost all college students see the educational experience as career preparation, and nothing more. The careerist mentality rejects anything that does not have an obvious connection to job placement. Making the entire situation worse is that most students do not have any interest, or even curiosity, in abstract and artistic ideas. So, it isn't as it there are countless students thinking, "I'd love to major in English or philosophy, but I better do something more practical." What really exists is a group of students without regard for literature, the fine arts, or philosophy. They view the courses as a complete waste of time. The decline of the humanities will only worsen. Also, and this is not the fault of the students, it is amazing how little they know when they make it to an Introduction to Literature course. I have no idea what is happening ir high school English courses, but it is a travesty. Many of the students have never read a complicated novel, and as a consequence, are entirely lost when trying to discuss even the basics of the plot. For my summer courses, I had the students begin with reading Poetics by Aristotle. My plan was to apply Aristotle's ideas about drama and storytelling to all the subsequen literature of the course. After they finished Poetics, I asked them to give an Aristotelian analysis of a novel or play in writing. Many of them objected, claiming they could not think of a novel or play. I don't really care. I'm just trying to get through the course. So, I said, "Fine, you can write about a movie." 11:03 PM Jul 27, 2018 Almost all of the students chose children's movies. I'm not even talking about the superhero genre. I'm referring to Disney cartoons - Lion King, Toy Story, The Incredibles, Inside/Out, etc. Another factor and this is important, but something most people will probably not realize - is the regression of young adults. Countless studies and surveys indicate that teenagers are having sex, working, going out with friends, working, drinking, taking drugs, and even driving less than previous generations. As a result, the average 18-yea old is the equivalent of a 15-year-old in our generation. Some maturity and experience are required to appreciate good literature and the humanities. Since they are less mature, and have fewer experiences, they are less likely to feel the power of anything from Plato to Hemingway.
LindyMan → @PaulSkallas A friend of mine is a professor of lit at a small midwestern university. I asked him about the decline of humanities enrollment. His response was interesting. Paul Skallas Lindy may save the Classics. Tie this field to survival, an understanding of human nature that replaces psychology https://twitter.com/benmschmidt/status/1022925053766365184 seems like humanit... to me : 4:49 PM (6 hours ago 7:41 PM (3 hours ago) Yeah, it the decline is severe. I've written about it before. Many universities are cutting humanities requirements, electing to surrender rather than fight. Almost all college students see the educational experience as career preparation, and nothing more. The careerist mentality rejects anything that does not have an obvious connection to job placement. Making the entire situation worse is that most students do not have any interest, or even curiosity, in abstract and artistic ideas. So, it isn't as it there are countless students thinking, "I'd love to major in English or philosophy, but I better do something more practical." What really exists is a group of students without regard for literature, the fine arts, or philosophy. They view the courses as a complete waste of time. The decline of the humanities will only worsen. Also, and this is not the fault of the students, it is amazing how little they know when they make it to an Introduction to Literature course. I have no idea what is happening ir high school English courses, but it is a travesty. Many of the students have never read a complicated novel, and as a consequence, are entirely lost when trying to discuss even the basics of the plot. For my summer courses, I had the students begin with reading Poetics by Aristotle. My plan was to apply Aristotle's ideas about drama and storytelling to all the subsequen literature of the course. After they finished Poetics, I asked them to give an Aristotelian analysis of a novel or play in writing. Many of them objected, claiming they could not think of a novel or play. I don't really care. I'm just trying to get through the course. So, I said, "Fine, you can write about a movie." 11:03 PM Jul 27, 2018 Almost all of the students chose children's movies. I'm not even talking about the superhero genre. I'm referring to Disney cartoons - Lion King, Toy Story, The Incredibles, Inside/Out, etc. Another factor and this is important, but something most people will probably not realize - is the regression of young adults. Countless studies and surveys indicate that teenagers are having sex, working, going out with friends, working, drinking, taking drugs, and even driving less than previous generations. As a result, the average 18-yea old is the equivalent of a 15-year-old in our generation. Some maturity and experience are required to appreciate good literature and the humanities. Since they are less mature, and have fewer experiences, they are less likely to feel the power of anything from Plato to Hemingway.

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