{"id":12388,"date":"2025-08-29T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=12388"},"modified":"2025-08-28T18:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:18:19","slug":"weekend-wisdom-youre-only-racing-against-yourself-in-churning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/29\/weekend-wisdom-youre-only-racing-against-yourself-in-churning\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Wisdom: You&#8217;re Only Racing Against Yourself in Churning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In manufactured spend, churning, or practically any other walk of life, there&#8217;s always someone going bigger or having more success than you.<a href=\"#spherical -cow\">*<\/a>  You can take that information in multiple ways, but the most common reactions I see are some form of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I need to try harder, my volume is tiny<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I doubt it&#8217;s even possible to do that much volume<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>After those initial reactions though, consider:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you&#8217;re earning enough to sustain your travel, spending, DoorDash credits, or streaming habits (I guess), then you&#8217;re golden<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you earn more points then you spend, the points left behind are worth exactly $0, so earning more doesn&#8217;t make even sense without learning liquidation via the churning black arts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Churning and manufactured spend is a hobby, but it&#8217;s also a form of work &#8211; your work-life balance needs aren&#8217;t the same as anyone else&#8217;s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So run your own race, and have a nice weekend friends!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"spherical-cow\" style=\"font-size:14px\">* Yes yes, mathematically that&#8217;s a stupid statement, but as a physicist who believes in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spherical_cow\">the power of the spherical cow<\/a>, it&#8217;s close enough.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12392\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-21.png 1000w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-21-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-21-768x379.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Close enough, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In manufactured spend, churning, or practically any other walk of life, there&#8217;s always someone going bigger or having more success than you.* You can take<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ms-hints","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12395,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388\/revisions\/12395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}