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Lately, testing network points has become a bit exhausting.
At first, it was good for practice—familiarize myself with the process, check contract permissions, and if issues arose, just consider it as paying tuition;
but once my mind started defaulting to "what can I exchange for later," my hands unconsciously added more positions, time, and effort, which is basically getting carried away.
My self-imposed stop-loss is pretty crude: if a single project requires changing environments/patching scripts/retrying more than twice, I stop for now;
another is if I spend more than a week on the test network than on revoking permissions and organizing wallets, I stop.
Anyway, I’d rather miss out than drag my main wallet down for the sake of "expectations."
Recently, L2s are again arguing over TPS, fees, and subsidies, making a fuss, watching the excitement, but I now trust "account hygiene" more.
Points are tempting, but don’t click authorize randomly, don’t mix funds, let’s stick to that for now.