Last night I placed an order with conservative slippage, but it got stuck on-chain for three minutes. I watched helplessly as the price slipped past, and it finally filled at a position 8% worse than expected. Insufficient depth + network congestion, a double debuff.

Looking back, the rhythm of placing orders is more important than the entry point. Now I'd rather pay more gas to get ahead than experience the helpless feeling of "watching it happen" again.

My friend next to me said: Isn't this what you call the attention economy? I stared at the screen for three hours, and my returns were negative. I was stunned for a moment and couldn't really refute it. The social mining model is essentially the same as this kind of screen-watching anxiety—both are games of trading time for uncertainty.

Let's leave it at that for now. The coffee has gone cold.