Been noticing more and more a certain type of intellectual using the ’Lindy’ prefix to denote something about a work: a ‘Lindy book’ or a ‘Lindy podcast’.

Now, I’m not entirely sure what it’s supposed to mean because it feels like a misunderstanding of the Lindy Effect

If it’s derived from the Lindy Effect then it should mean that the piece in question will continue to exist as long as it has already existed, which is a statement that’s completely neutral about that piece of media’s percieved quality.

But they seem to be using it to describe a Cyril Connolly-style canon (i.e. is still read and discussed decades after publishing).

Then they write ‘Lindy tweets’ or ’Lindy podcasts’ which haven’t been around long enough to be Connolly-style canon or Lindy-style survivors.

That is, it’s much too early to tell whether a tweet can have a long term impact, canon-style, and saying that it still exists is meaningless as it’ll continue to exist until either Twitter goes bust or somebody takes action to remove it.

Either I’m misunderstanding the way they’re using the phrase or somebody has just invented a new jargon word for ‘fav media’ that is inaccessible to people outside of the Taleb-hangers-on intelligentsia crowd

Leaning towards the latter but asking here just in case:

What does a phrase like ‘Lindy book’ or ‘Lindy app’ actually mean when people use it?