I just saw a post about Layer2 ripping TPS apart, and the comments underneath almost had me laughing out loud. Chain A said, “My fees are low.” Chain B said, “My ecosystem is big.” Chain C said, “My subsidies are huge.” But when you compare yourself to them, you’d better think first about whether you can actually sleep at night.

I’ve been pretty typical lately: one of my positions was floating at a 5% loss. I kept turning it over and over in my head, calculating how much more it might drop, and even woke up in the middle of the night to check on-chain data. In the end, yesterday it not only got back to breakeven but also made an extra 3%. And yet I still got restless and wanted to add more— the more I thought about it, the less I could sleep. When you’re losing, you fear loss; when you’re making money, you fear making less. Put simply, it’s “loss aversion”—the pain of losing 100 is twice as strong as the joy of gaining 100.

Forget it—speaking plainly: when you’re staring at slippage, slippage is also staring back at you. No matter how competitive Layer2 gets, it can’t beat your obsession with “floating losses.” Sleep well first, then talk about routing.