Calm & Fluffy

I put off switching from Google to Proton for years. It took minutes

The price of convenience when your life's turned into training data.

Jan 13 • Bas Grasmayer

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Guidelines for a life without music streaming

2026 is starting with a new experiment: ditching music streaming.

Jan 1 • Bas Grasmayer

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December 2025

2025's takeaways to stay calm & fluffy

Plus all the music featured in the newsletter this year

Dec 23, 2025 • Bas Grasmayer

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Stephan Kunze: Life as a music fan without streaming

A conversation between two music streaming veterans about cutting the wireless cord

Dec 16, 2025 • Bas Grasmayer and Stephan Kunze

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Post-culture

What happens when human intent is removed from cultural expression?

Dec 12, 2025 • Bas Grasmayer

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The tools I use to run my Substack

What do you use for your creative routines?

Dec 10, 2025 • Bas Grasmayer

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Lessons from the most awkward person in the room

How learning to dance became a lesson in clarity

Dec 2, 2025 • Bas Grasmayer

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November 2025

AI as the operating system: generative user interfaces 👾

What does it mean when most interfaces you use only exist for a few minutes?

Nov 26, 2025 • Bas Grasmayer

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Is AI turning music streaming services into comment sections? 💬

The century-long squeeze that led to this moment

Nov 18, 2025 • Bas Grasmayer

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Spice up your life (and health) 🌶️

Plus: ice-cold ambient music, Japanese 'techno kayō', and ending your extremely online era.

Nov 11, 2025 • Bas Grasmayer

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Fluffiness as an act of resistance

Gentleness might be our toughest armour.

Nov 4, 2025 • Bas Grasmayer

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October 2025

Offline after 8pm for 30 days: what sucked and what stuck

Thirty nights of almost doing what I said I’d do.

Oct 30, 2025 • Bas Grasmayer

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