Lately, I’ve gotten numb from farming testnet points. It was originally just something to practice, but as I kept going, my brain started automatically recalculating: “Can you send me something in the future?” At this point, the risk isn’t really gas and time anymore—it’s losing control of expectations. To put it plainly, my own stop-loss is pretty crude: how many hours I’ll spend at most per day, how much on-chain cost I’m willing to front at most, and once I go over, I stop—no matter how people in the group are yelling, “One more interaction and it’ll be basically there.” Because the moment you treat practice as a sure return, your emotions will drag you into the “add more” kind of head-over-heels frenzy.

Recently, around the upgrade of that mainstream public chain, everyone’s been guessing whether projects will migrate. I also get itchy to sneak into a few more ecosystems, but when I think about whether they’ll migrate or not, there’s zero certainty for me as far as farming points goes… I’ll just write in my memo that “I’m only here to practice.” Forget it—I’m going to sleep.