Paula Schaap
@redsonja.bsky.social
Writer and editor. Also lawyer. Also, I play poker. And yes, that is my actual dog in the avatar. Her name is Muppet, the name she came with; we couldn't figure out a better one. Opinions my own; usual disclaimers.
My husband observed about friends who sold their house here, and then moved to Europe where they bought a house, that it was probably a good idea for them to convert their US dollars to hard assets over there.
January 29, 2026 at 1:33 PM
My husband observed about friends who sold their house here, and then moved to Europe where they bought a house, that it was probably a good idea for them to convert their US dollars to hard assets over there.
Reposted by Paula Schaap
Bari’s sole, career-defining trick is to repackage bog-standard elite opinion as something “edgy” and “heterodox.”
There is an audience for that product, and the audience has a lot of spare cash. (You will never go broke telling rich people what they want to hear.)
But it’s a NICHE audience.
There is an audience for that product, and the audience has a lot of spare cash. (You will never go broke telling rich people what they want to hear.)
But it’s a NICHE audience.
January 27, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Bari’s sole, career-defining trick is to repackage bog-standard elite opinion as something “edgy” and “heterodox.”
There is an audience for that product, and the audience has a lot of spare cash. (You will never go broke telling rich people what they want to hear.)
But it’s a NICHE audience.
There is an audience for that product, and the audience has a lot of spare cash. (You will never go broke telling rich people what they want to hear.)
But it’s a NICHE audience.
"Critical" = "milquetoast."
January 26, 2026 at 8:46 PM
"Critical" = "milquetoast."