{"id":18254,"date":"2026-08-03T18:42:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=18254"},"modified":"2026-08-03T18:42:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:42:49","slug":"episode-686-halstead-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-686-halstead-york","title":{"rendered":"Episode 686 – Halstead York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 686:
\nHalstead York<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The core Hampshire experience was figuring out how to do things for myself and figuring out how to excite other people about what I wanted to do.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s time for the first installment of The Hampshire Tapes!<\/strong> Halstead York<\/a> (F88) joins the show to talk about his experience at Hampshire College<\/a>, 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. Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

“It’s amazing how much Hampshire prepared me \u2014 in stark terms \u2014 for what I would actually be doing for a lot of my career, which was pitching.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n