Me in 2024: 'This project team is legit, the whitepaper is 200 pages long, and the team has all top-tier company backgrounds. I'm going all in.' Me in 2025: 'Whitepaper? That's for VCs. I only care about one thing—does the founder curse people out on Twitter? The more aggressive, the more genuine.' Me in 2026: 'No whitepaper. No market research. No team analysis. Just betting on one thing—can this coin survive until the next bull market?' Lessons learned: Year 1: Value investing. Year 2: Narrative investing. Year 3: Survival investing. When can you start making money from investing? Answer: Year 4. Because by then, I’ve lost all my principal and don’t have to think about it anymore.