Works
- Lindy's Law, The New Republic, June 13, 1964, 1964
In Thinking Tools
Known for
An American academic and writer on popular culture. His 1964 essay reported the folklore at Lindy's delicatessen in New York that a comedian's future run can be predicted from his exposure so far, the idea later reworked by Benoit Mandelbrot and Nassim Nicholas Taleb into the Lindy effect.