Lately, running testsnet points has gotten a bit too intense for me. It was originally just something to practice and, as a bonus, pick up some scraps—but once I mentally defaulted to “this time there has to be an airdrop,” my actions started to go off the rails: setting alarms in the middle of the night, repeating interactions, even gas fees not factoring in anymore… Honestly, this isn’t practice anymore—it’s a bet.

My stop-loss I set for myself is kind of crude: in a week, I’ll spend at most a certain amount of time and/or money—if I go over, I stop. Also, when I notice I’m starting to “farm just to farm” (even when there are no new features), I stop as well. Mainnet is upgrading/maintaining again, right? People in the group are all guessing whether the ecosystem will migrate. I don’t chase migration narratives—I’ll first make sure my costs on the table are clear, so I don’t turn into “liquidity fuel.”

I trust data more. The reason is simple: intuition is especially good at deceiving me inside FOMO, but data at least reminds me coldly—“you’re already over your budget.” That’s it for now.