Recently, I saw someone talking about block builders and bundles, saying that if retail investors don’t understand, they’ll get “eaten alive”… I think, as long as we know to “not run naked on the chain,” that’s enough: don’t use those chase orders that are easy to get caught in, don’t hard push when liquidity is thin, use limit orders or split orders when possible, and if you really want to play, just treat it as paying tuition. As for how builders package things or who whispers notes to whom privately, I just keep a concept in mind: the order of transactions you see isn’t necessarily fair, just be aware of that.

By the way, the NFT royalty debate and all that water-cooler talk are actually the same flavor: when rules change, the ones who adapt first are never the creators or retail investors, but the group that’s better at “queuing.”
My definition of “long-term” isn’t that grand… probably about a quarter, at least able to withstand a few rounds of emotional reversals, not flipping the plan over because of a day or two of volatility. That’s all for now.