These days, I got caught up again in the social mining scene—completing tasks, earning points, grabbing badges, feeling like I’m drawing an endless trend line... Basically, I’m treating time as capital. Staring at a bunch of "identity" pages, switching back and forth until my eyes are sore and tired, I finally realized: I was originally just trying to learn about candlestick charts, not to become a check-in robot.

Recently, Layer 2 projects have been arguing over TPS, fees, and subsidies, and it’s been quite lively, but ordinary people really don’t need to “prove they are present” at every one. I’ve now set a rule for myself: if I can finish it in 10 minutes, I do it; if it takes longer, I give up, saving some energy for review and sleep... No matter how pretty the badges are, they’re not worth draining my life.