Learning to Sit with Instability and Why You’ll be Better Off for It
In 2015, I signed up for a 10-day silent meditation retreat in Myanmar. Vipassana. No speaking, no phone, no distractions. Just your breath, your mind, and whatever came up in the silence.
I didn’t make it to Day 10.
On Day 5, something in me cracked.. or maybe just got loud enough to listen to. Thoughts started spiraling: I’ve figured it out. I got the insight. I’m good. I asked to leave early. The truth? I wasn’t ready to sit with the discomfort. The stillness was too much. My mind was louder than ever. I ran.
Around the same time, I was steadily accumulating Bitcoin. I had a simple plan: $50 a day. I believed it could reach even 1% of gold’s market cap, a logical, long-term thesis rooted in generational momentum. (Today it’s at close to 10% I think!)
I had around 12 BTC then. I was calm. Steady. Focused.
Until I wasn’t.
After I returned to my home country, the same pattern repeated. Markets moved. My emotions followed. I started selling on rallies. I broke the plan, not because the logic changed, but because I couldn’t sit with the emotional instability.
That retreat taught me something I didn’t fully understand at the time: instability will come, both inside and out. The people who thrive aren’t the ones who avoid it. They’re the ones who stay in the seat.
We’re Here Again.
Nearly a decade later, I’m watching a different kind of instability unfold.
The U.S. is deep into the final stages of Ray Dalio’s long-term debt cycle. The reserve currency status of the dollar is wobbling. Inflation is sticky. Yields are rising. Trust in institutions, political, financial, informational, is thinning.
But this time, it’s not just about macro charts.
It’s cultural.
A new generation is redefining what money even is. We’re watching the shift from Web3 to Web4 -- where money isn’t just programmable, it’s social. Where memetics, values, and alignment matter as much as utility.
It’s not just “what does this coin do?”
It’s “what does it represent?”
Enter: the unstable meme.
Look, I’m not going to hard-shill you anything here.
But I will say this: USDUC is a meme, yes. But it’s also a mirror. It reflects the truth most financial systems are still trying to cover up.
That the world is unstable.
That currencies are unstable.
That pretending otherwise is the real risk.
To me, USDUC doesn’t try to solve instability. It names it. It accepts it. And it builds community around it.
That alone makes it culturally, economically, and emotionally relevant; more and more so as the cracks widen.
It’s a post-stability meme for a post-trust world.
The Bigger Point
The hardest thing isn’t seeing the trend.
It’s sitting through it.
Most people won’t.
They’ll chase safety.
They’ll jump at volatility.
They’ll abandon the plan.
But maybe that’s what makes the next era different.
Maybe it belongs to those who know how to stay in the seat.
To sit with instability.
To laugh through it.
And to build from it.
Because what comes next won’t be forged in spreadsheets.
It’ll be forged in conviction.
And memes.
And movement.