I realized that the thing that affects my sleep the most isn’t missing out on a bit of profit—it’s that floating loss of “it’s not down far enough yet”… Even though the money hasn’t actually left my wallet, my brain runs through the worst-case scenario first. When I’m sitting on a floating gain, I’m surprisingly calm; at most I think about whether I should add a little more. But when I’m in a floating loss, my mind starts going back and forth about whether to add, whether to cut, whether I just misread things—basically, loss aversion is being a real troublemaker.

Recently, I’ve been following the narratives around modularization and the DA layer. Developers are chatting about it nonstop, sounding super excited—and as a user like me, I feel a bit lost: it seems important, but I can’t quite explain what it actually has to do with the little swings in my wallet. Anyway, for now I’m giving myself a patch: make the rules simpler—trim a bit when I’m down, take a bit when I’m up. Small tweaks are enough; don’t expect to fix human nature overnight. For now, that’s it.