Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Conversation begins at 8:50
"The core Hampshire College experience was figuring out how to do things for myself and figuring out how to excite other people about what I wanted to do." It's time for the first installment of The Hampshire Tapes! Halstead York (F88, https://bsky.app/profile/hommestead.bsky.social) joins the show to talk about his experience at Hampshire College (https://hampshire.edu), how the spirit of the school and its grand experiment of student-driven education has stuck with him all these years, how the school's structure taught him how to pitch projects, how the cover of an unstructured "hippie-trippy" college (my words) masked intense competitiveness and the need to be a self-starter, how reflecting on his time there has helped him maintain his techno-utopianism, and plenty more. Follow Halstead on Letterboxd (letterboxd.com/hommestead/), Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/hommestead.bsky.social) and Instagram (instagram.com/halsteadyork/), and subscribe to The Inflection Cut (theinflectioncut.podbean.com/) podcast • More info at chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-686-halstead-york • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Stripe (buy.stripe.com/dR603B83MbhS4XS3ce), Patreon (patreon.com/vmspod), or Paypal (paypal.me/vmspod), and subscribe to our e-newsletter, https://buttondown.email/vmspod
Conversation begins at 8:50
"The core Hampshire College experience was figuring out how to do things for myself and figuring out how to excite other people about what I wanted to do." It's time for the first installment of The Hampshire Tapes! Halstead York (F88, https://bsky.app/profile/hommestead.bsky.social) joins the show to talk about his experience at Hampshire College (https://hampshire.edu), how the spirit of the school and its grand experiment of student-driven education has stuck with him all these years, how the school's structure taught him how to pitch projects, how the cover of an unstructured "hippie-trippy" college (my words) masked intense competitiveness and the need to be a self-starter, how reflecting on his time there has helped him maintain his techno-utopianism, and plenty more. Follow Halstead on Letterboxd (letterboxd.com/hommestead/), Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/hommestead.bsky.social) and Instagram (instagram.com/halsteadyork/), and subscribe to The Inflection Cut (theinflectioncut.podbean.com/) podcast • More info at chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-686-halstead-york • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Stripe (buy.stripe.com/dR603B83MbhS4XS3ce), Patreon (patreon.com/vmspod), or Paypal (paypal.me/vmspod), and subscribe to our e-newsletter, https://buttondown.email/vmspod
