Just when I was scrolling, I saw someone posting “Top 1% on this week’s points leaderboard,” and I flinched—almost skewing my stop-loss point… To put it plainly, the harshest thing about social mining isn’t losing money; it’s slicing your day into countless fragments of “go interact a bit,” until all that’s left is a badge and exhaustion.

I look at perpetuals’ funding rates and liquidation hot zones. Belief isn’t worth anything—discipline is. Likewise, points are just a lottery ticket: change the rules, adjust the weight, and your previous diligence instantly turns into free labor. Lately, people have also been using RWA and US Treasury yield rates to benchmark on-chain yield products—sounds pretty good, but I care more about what I’m actually exchanging for that “sense of identity”: time, attention, or risk exposure.

Anyway, I only have two rules now: if it can be automated, don’t do it manually; if it can be handled in one go, don’t clock in every day. Badges won’t save you—liquidation will. That’s it for now.