The rain today feels a bit stifling, and the traffic on the road made my coffee go cold... I casually checked the testnet and found that “practicing” is increasingly starting to look like saving up a ticket for the future. In plain terms, once your mind starts defaulting to, “There will definitely be points/airdrops,” your actions get distorted: what you should stop, you can’t stop, and what you should step back from, you still want to pile on another layer.

Setting stop-loss rules for things like this is kind of crude on my part: a time stop-loss plus an effort stop-loss. For example, for a chain/task, if more than two rounds of rework still don’t run smoothly, or if within a week you have to keep repeatedly watching faucet/bridge/node status, then treat it as the end of the practice and switch to the next one. Then add a cost cap (Gas/fees/small principal)—and once you hit the limit, don’t add any more. Recently, that whole “compounding yield” narrative from staking and shared security has been getting criticized for essentially being a nesting/stacking pattern, and it also reminds me: the more expectations you have, the easier it is to take risk as something you “should” accept. Anyway, I’d rather get fewer points than have to pay for it with my mindset.