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All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong. Most buildings are designed NOT to adapt well; designed NOT to change. But all buildings adapt anyway, because the people inside them are constantly changing.
How Buildings Learn
Stewart Brand
The **Lindy effect** (also known as **Lindy's Law**) is a theorized phenomenon by which the future [life expectancy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediocrity_principle#Longevity_Estimation) of some non-perishable things, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to their current age. Thus, the Lindy effect proposes the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, the longer its remaining life expectancy. Longevity implies a resistance to change, obsolescence or competition and greater odds of continued existence into the future.
Lindy Effect
wikipedia.org
Really finance is the study of human behavior and I guess signing your name really big is a human behavior like anything else, apparently one that correlates with stock buyback announcements.
Money Stuff: The SEC Comes for Crypto Custody
Matt Levine
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