Today I paid my tuition on-chain again... I originally wanted to catch a small pullback, but I kept stuck there “waiting for confirmation, waiting for the pullback, waiting to think it through,” and what I ended up with was a fill price even more outrageous than I expected. Plain and simple: I set my slippage too leniently, the pool depth wasn’t enough, and I was still hesitating about whether to split the order. In the end, I just slapped it in all at once—basically treating myself as fuel.

When I look back, the timing of my order is really more important than I thought: there was clearly the option to break it into two or three trades, test the waters first and then add more, but I insisted on pretending to be decisive. Lately, these new L1/L2 networks have been issuing incentives to pull TVL, and the veteran users in the group have been complaining about “mining and selling.” I used to laugh at other people, but when it was my turn, I realized the first thing that might get sold is my patience... For now, that’s it. Next time I’m not going to wrestle with myself—better to miss out a little than to force a hard push.