#Tradition and the #LindyEffect are descriptive, not prescriptive, observations.

Things stick around for lots of reasons, good and bad — including, but not limited to: coercion, fear, inertia, ossification, taboo, chance, network effects, market failures, sunk costs…

Lots of wrong ideas, unhealthy habits and abhorrent behaviours are “old”.

Old ≠ good.

(#NaturalisticFallacy, you’re next)

But don't forget the ancients. It is therefore #antifragile.
#LindyEffect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ij6j5E5ceI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn_XEDPIeU8

Great Nassim Taleb talk w/many strong points

#LindyEffect: What works for long, tends to continue or be reverted to from short term changes

Applied to "News": Era of propaganda where family receives monoculture news from television/New York Times was short.

This ended when #Trump got a Twitter account. For most history, humans exchanged news through community interaction. One gets news and GIVES news. Lindy Effect suggests we revert to this older practice.