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These days I've been seeing a bunch of social mining/points tasks again, and I suddenly feel like I should slow down... In the past, I would get itchy when I saw badges, but after clicking around all night, I saved on Gas fees, yet my time was drained, and I still needed to catch up on sleep the next day, which is quite a loss. Honestly, the thing about identity is that, many times, it just makes you anxious about "whether I'm falling behind."
Looking at the recent complaints about staking and shared security being called "nested dolls," I also have some sympathy: the idea of stacking yields sounds appealing, but looping around on the chain might just be stacking up risks as well. Anyway, my current strategy is very simple: be a bit slow, wait until the rules are stable, the fee rates are friendly, and the contracts are understandable before jumping in. I'm not chasing badges that change daily with new features anymore. Just sticking to this for now.