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These past two weeks, the "attention economy" has been in full swing again.
Whenever a hot topic changes, I get itchy to jump in, but then I look back and realize:
It's not the direction that's wrong, it's that I always rush in at the loudest moment.
Terms like modularization and DA layer that developers talk about are quite exciting, but it's normal for ordinary users to be completely confused.
Honestly, information asymmetry makes it easy to be used as fuel.
I'm now setting a simple rule for myself:
First, don't look at what KOLs conclude;
Instead, check what the project relies on to feed data / what oracle it uses,
whether there's a delay window in update frequency,
and if there are circuit breakers or price limits during anomalies;
these details are rarely discussed but are the easiest to cause issues.
When the hype rises, I just treat it like "watching a kid,"
and if I get distracted, I might stumble...
Anyway, better to miss a part than to keep paying tuition through narrative switches.