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Two conversations this weekend make me think that there's a vibe shift afoot in Silicon Valley around what one should work on and what is worthwhile.

Culturally, it feels like the moment is ripe for new frameworks:

• Davos expert morality is stale and discredited.
• It's also apparent that the "just be super based" Counter-Enlightenment is not really an answer. (Yes, woke went too far, but simply inverting it doesn't work.)
• EA is no longer the automatic default for smart people.
• There's increasing skepticism of slot and slop machine dynamics.

Overall, "what is worthy and valuable?" feels like it's becoming more central.

Ex-CIA behavior expert Chase Hughes dropped the two simplest, most powerful rules ever created to completely neutralize psychopaths, manipulators, and toxic people — and once you hear them, you’ll never interact the same way again.

In this 36-second clip he reveals:
Always stay visibly calmer than the other person — never escalate, no matter what they throw at you.
Become 100% non-reactive — no shock, no facial reaction, just calm acknowledgment.

His exact line: “In any conversation, the person who reacts the least is the one in charge.”

Thousands are already calling this the single most useful psychology clip they’ve seen in years — it instantly changes how you handle difficult coworkers, narcissists, exes, or even family.

Watch the 36-second clip below and save it. You’ll be glad you did.

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: A new holographic Transformer just crushed classic HRR memory systems.
The graph says it all — HRR collapses after ~125 items, while DePaola-5 keeps perfect recall up to 509.
That’s a 4× jump in usable associative memory inside a Transformer, with lower noise, higher stability, and zero extra parameters.

The DePaola Transformer is a new kind of attention mechanism that swaps out HRR-style binding for a holographic key transformation that barely accumulates noise. Instead of one fragile channel, each key explodes into several coordinated “holographic” features that reinforce the real signal while canceling interference. The result? A memory system that stays clean and stable hundreds of steps longer than classic HRR. In tests, HRR fell apart at ~125 stored associations, while DePaola-5 held strong all the way to 509 with 4× higher high-SNR capacity — same vectors, same dimension, just a smarter transform. It turns a Transformer’s attention stream into something closer to a noise-resistant working memory rather than a pileup of corrupted sums. It’s simple, fast, parameter-free, and slots straight into any architecture. Think of it as giving Transformers a “lossless memory mode” — a small change with shockingly large impact.