Day of 2025-12-07

The mercury is still low and waking up to a world hovering ~3°C has turned my morning run into a serious mental battle. Stepping out of a warm bed and into that biting chill requires a level of discipline that testing my limits every single day. While the crisp air is refreshing once the heart rate climbs, the initial shock to the lungs and the stiffness in my joints make those first few kilometers feel significantly harder than they did a month ago.

On the financial front, I have been managing my position in $SURGE, which I originally entered with a total of 725 tokens to capitalize on the staking yield. I have decided to begin the process of moving on, slowly de-risking and looking for more robust opportunities where the growth potential outweighs the current decay. It isn't easy to exit a strategy you believed in, but being liquid and adaptable is far more important than clinging to a fading incentive program. But keeping my holdings.

The technical side of my week hasn't been without its frustrations either, particularly when I attempted to swap some $USDC for $TNVDA on the $BASE network. Even with sufficient gas and a clear connection to the decentralized exchange, the transaction failed repeatedly for reasons that aren't immediately obvious on the block explorer. Whether it was a sudden spike in slippage, a temporary liquidity crunch, or a simple RPC error, the friction of on-chain trading reminded me that we are still in the "early days" of user experience.