Scrolling through a bunch of posts like “Jensen called out these few stocks” and “Which stock did Trump mention again?” The first professional ailment you develop after coding for ten years: when you see this kind of thing, you just want to write a script, download all the historical “trade calls,” and run a backtest.

And then you get it—what’s always screenshotted and reshared is the ones that went up. That’s survivor bias, not investment advice.

Spend enough time working at a big tech company and you’ll realize that nobody gets rich just by riding on some big-name’s reputation. What everyone relies on is position management and endurance. The one lesson my decade of DCAing into BTC taught me: don’t chase hot topics—chase your own discipline.