Why Unstable Feels Right, Right Now

I hugely respect the dollar and what it has done for the world.

It’s not just a currency -- it’s a symbol of trust, coordination, and decades of global alignment.
It gave the world a unit to build around.
And for most of my life, it felt like one of the safest thing you could hold.

But lately, I’ve been feeling something shift.

Not in a doomsday kind of way.
More like a quiet dissonance.

Where headlines get weirder.
Debt keeps rising.
And the word “stable” gets thrown around even when everything around it feels shaky.

That’s when I found myself returning to Ray Dalio.

History has shown that when debt levels are high and internal conflict rises, empires shift.

Dalio doesn’t preach panic.
He maps transitions.

And we’re in one now; not necessarily at the end of something, but the turning of a page.
And the big question is: how do we respond?

That’s where unstable hit me.

At first, it looked like just another meme.
But I think it's starting to prove itself to be more than that.

Not because it promised anything.
But precisely because it didn't.

No false peg.
No fake stability.
No cap.
Just a brutally honest reflection of the moment we’re in.. volatile, weird, full of risk, but also full of possibility.

Unstable isn’t about rejecting the dollar.
It’s about acknowledging that every system evolves.

It’s about asking:

• What would money look like if it didn’t have to pretend?
• What if it could be fast, transparent, liquid AND honest about its volatility?

That’s not collapse.
That’s evolution.

The dollar was the right solution for a very specific world.
But the world is changing. Now, faster than ever, more decentralized, more chaotic.

So we adapt.

We experiment with new models.
We test new memes, create new monies.
And we build new kinds of trust -- not handed down from institutions, but emerging from communities, code, and culture.

To me, unstable is a symbol of that shift.

A reminder that volatility isn’t the enemy, stagnation is.

And in a world that keeps getting weirder, maybe the best thing we can do…

…is stop pretending things haven’t changed.