Lately, watching those "mindless arbitrage" videos on the blockchain makes me feel more and more uneasy... You think you've found an opportunity, but most of the time you're just paying fees for someone else's sandwich trade, and when the trade executes, slippage suddenly hits, and your mindset collapses. To put it simply, arbitrage is more about execution and information gaps than courage; I'm just a tool guy who can only honestly figure out routing, Gas, and approvals first, and I prefer to do fewer trades.

What I fear most isn't losing money, but losing control: making a wrong click, signing the wrong transaction, or being sandwiched and not even knowing how it happened—that kind of helplessness is much worse than losing money. Recently, hardware wallets are out of stock, phishing links are everywhere, and in the group, a bunch of people are sharing "airdrop snapshots" I dare not click... Anyway, I treat all interactions now as if I’m doing overtime procedures—slower, steadier, just like that.