Don't lose your brain before you make your bag If you're young/early and earning your crypto -- being a chain maxi or tribal about an ecosystem is guaranteed negative EV for you. Because anyone parroting maximalism on your feed is likely either an employee or a bagholder. Since you're neither, your incentives don't align. But your interests are best served by finding where you get the highest return on your talent and have the most fun. However this doesn't mean eternal hopping, infact the opposite. A better approach is the explore-exploit framework from ML systems. For e.g. social media feeds "explore"by showing you new content from outside your interests and then "exploit" once they know what you like/share/watch. They keep running loops on this to maximise some objective function (ad rev, time spent, etc) Note that if they did too much of either they would fail, i.e. if they only explored they'd miss too much and you'd swipe out or if they only showed you what you prev like you'd get bored eventually. So it's about balance. Your career, unlike your feed, is not operating on a 6 sec dopamine cycle. Hopefully. So these cycles will be longer -- to each their own but typically a few months of exploration and a few years of focus works best. Therefore there's nothing inherently wrong with trying your hand at tens of different hackathons, bounties, fellowships, etc to sample the quality of work, opportunity and people out there. Some of the best superteam members started off by trying their hand at bounties, hackathons or grant projects before locking in on a startup or landing a job in the ecosystem. The labelling isn't perfect but broadly you should aim to move yourself towards the right end of this curve. This is even more crucial because it's actually pretty easy to spot someone who is sampling towards a goal vs sampling as the goal. Therefore if you're prolonged sampling you're less likely to have access to the best opportunities or people in any ecosystem/domain. You also likely won't trauma bond or make real friendships with people who are already focussed. Thus capping the quality of work, fun and upside you can achieve.