Previously, I saw someone on the chain say "Arbitrage opportunity is here" and I would get a bit itchy to follow along. Now I mostly ask myself: Am I seeing an opportunity, or am I just paying others transaction fees... especially with those sandwich attacks, where I just want to swap some tokens, but the slippage suddenly feels like being slapped from behind.

Now there are a bunch of AI agents and automated trading scripts claiming to "help you monitor the market and place orders," sounding very convenient, but honestly, they run faster than I do and don’t care about my gas fees. Plus, with all kinds of authorizations, signatures, and contract interactions, I’d rather sleep a little longer than risk my security.

Anyway, I’m still the same old: dollar-cost averaging, doing less, setting limit orders when possible, and minimizing on-chain operations. It’s okay if the narrative on the chain changes when I wake up, as long as my wallet doesn’t change owners while I sleep.