Recently, I’ve been seeing yet another wave of social mining, points, and badges—some people really fill up their daily schedule with it all… I get it; you’re afraid of missing out on airdrops. But let’s be real: badges can’t be eaten. So I only keep tasks where the steps can be reproduced, the costs are clear, and exiting isn’t a hassle: automate what can be automated, and if it can’t, just cut it. I’d rather earn less than let my mindset get wrecked.

Later, I realized that a lot of these “identities” are basically just mechanisms that keep you online, contributing data and attention all the time. As for the on-chain side of sorting/MEV and fairness—being criticized by retail investors isn’t without reason. In the end, it’s not guaranteed that the one who gets the biggest share will be you. My approach is kind of old-school: set a time limit for each project, stop when it’s exceeded, and save some energy for doing real work.