"node operator mindset"

met mikhail in moscow through a friend and honestly that meeting changed how i view infra. we ended up opening my laptop, renting a server and deploying a shardeum node right there on the spot. what stood out was how calm and procedural he was. he broke down why uptime and latency matter and how projects actually track these metrics. i’ve been in defi hunting for years, but hearing about infra from someone who lives it daily was different. i still use a lot of the basics he showed me when checking new testnet setups. solid operator