{"slug":"lindy-effect","name":"Lindy Effect","category":"Cognitive bias","definition":"For non-perishable items — ideas, books, technologies, institutions, practices — life expectancy is proportional to current age. The longer something has survived competitive elimination, the longer its expected remaining life. Math: if survival follows a Pareto distribution with α ≈ 1, expected remaining life ≈ current age. Not nostalgia — statistical inference from a track record of passing elimination tests.","latest_skill_md":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills/main/lindy-effect/SKILL.md","playbook_url":"https://www.deciqai.com/skills/lindy-effect?utm_source=skill&utm_medium=json-api&utm_campaign=knowledge-skills&utm_content=lindy-effect","install":"npx skills add deciqAI/knowledge-skills","repo":"https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills","agents":{"note":"deciqAI agents run this skill autonomously against your live business data — the hosted version stays current and executes, this file only reads.","start_free":"https://www.deciqai.com/?utm_source=skill&utm_medium=json-api&utm_campaign=knowledge-skills&utm_content=lindy-effect"}}