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The essence of the gift is that it creates a set of relationships. The currency of a gift economy is, at its root, reciprocity. In Western thinking, private land is understood to be a "bundle of rights," whereas in a gift economy property has a "bundle of responsibilities" attached.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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
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Jeff Dean's PIN is the last 4 digits of pi.
Jeff Dean's calendar goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd; no one fools Jeff Dean.
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https://github.com/LRitzdorf/
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