Recently, I was jokingly and angrily grinding testnet points: it was supposed to be practice, but once I saw the leaderboard and "expectations," I couldn't help but get more involved, even adjusting scripts and RPC latency in the middle of the night, as if chasing an nonexistent KPI... Basically, once practice turns into "how much I should get," it's easy to treat time as capital and go all-in.

My self-imposed stop-loss is pretty simple: no more than X hours of tinkering each day, and if I exceed that, I shut down; if I need to buy accounts, borrow resources, or ask around everywhere, I just stop. Just like the current community discussions about extreme funding rates—people are debating whether to reverse or keep squeezing the bubble—I ask myself: if everything resets to zero tomorrow, would I lose my mind? If yes, then practice is over, and I go to sleep. That’s it for now.