These past couple of days, I’ve been thinking again—attention is really a blade that cuts: when a hot topic switches, my brain switches with it, and my hands get itchy. I even said I would “just observe and not act”… I thought I was grabbing opportunities, but in truth I was providing liquidity for others—especially the most emotional kind.

Especially when that stretch of time when the cross-chain bridges kept having trouble, the group was panicking on one side and pushing other narratives on the other, and I almost wanted to bail out and chase the new storyline. Later, when I looked back and reviewed, I realized that every time I got cut, it wasn’t because the information wasn’t enough—it was because I took “what everyone is watching” as “what I should be doing.”

Now I’m giving myself a crude little rule: when a hot topic shows up, wait a moment first. Like recently, after those oracle abnormal quotes, everyone was saying “wait for confirmation,” and I treated that sentence like an incantation I recite to myself… “confirmation” isn’t the on-chain data—it’s my impulse. If I miss it, then I miss it; at least I won’t keep extending my life on borrowed regret.