Reed College
Liberal arts college in Portland, Oregonwww.reed.edu
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Sep 23, 2026
Amjad MasadGUEST
One of the most inspiring speeches he gave is the Stanford commencement speech, and he talked about connecting things backwards.
Amjad MasadGUEST
So the way Steve Jobs approached college, I think it's the ideal e-experience of college, where he's like, he went to Reed College, but he couldn't afford it, so he dropped out, but kept dropping into different classes.
Amjad MasadGUEST
One of them was calligraphy.
Erik TorenbergHOST
Yeah.
David HydeHOST
I wanted to ask how your theory of lighting is sort of similar to and different from a departure from broken windows theory that folks remember from the 80s and 90s.
David HydeHOST
I remember when I was a student, a political science student at Reed College in the mid 80s, reading James Q. Wilson's article about that for some political science class and the very liberal political science professor saying, you know, This data is pretty good surrounding the broken windows theory.
David HydeHOST
I mean, it was the Reagan era, but even a liberal political science professor at Reed College was embracing some of those ideas, it sounded like to me at the time.
David HydeHOST
But yeah, how is your theory of lighting similar to and maybe a departure from some of those original theories, at least how they were practiced?
Elizabeth GlazerGUEST
So I'm so glad you brought it up.
Zach PruittHOST
And you mentioned racism, and there is controversy.
Zach PruittHOST
In 2017, students in a humanities class at Reed College protested the inclusion of the song in their coursework, calling it an example of cultural appropriation while demanding its removal.
Zach PruittHOST
One complained, this made me groan, that the gold face of the saxophone player, which is Howard Shore, was a racist exhibition of blackface.
Zach PruittHOST
I
SeanHOST
know mines.
DanHOST
he went back with Steve Jobs and they were going to school together at Reed College and they were like, maybe we can just plant a bunch of Douglas firs and we'll be rich, right? Because the Douglas firs grow six inches a year, we'll make a forest and we'll sell the wood and we'll do it sustainably and we're just gonna be hippies in the woods who are rich.
DanHOST
That was their dream.
DanHOST
at the time and you know to forecast out to where he's not today and all the rest uh but like the the the amount of mining
Ewan MagieHOST
Certainly he was sitting cross-legged at the edge of the mountain.
Ewan MagieHOST
And additionally, he was later accepted after his undergraduate years at Reed College in Portland, where he met Philip Whelan, the future Zen priest at San Francisco Zen Center and poet himself, Gary was accepted into graduate studies at the University of Indiana.
Ewan MagieHOST
And if you don't know this part of the story, he was famously on Route 50, the loneliest highway in America, hitchhiking.
Ewan MagieHOST
And since there weren't a lot of cars coming along, he took out his copy of Essays on Zen Buddhism by D.T. Suzuki, sitting there on the side of the desert highway.
Castulo de la RochaGUEST
I had a teacher, Steve Shields was his name, happened to have been cousin to Henry Waxman, the congressman, later on.
Castulo de la RochaGUEST
But Steve went to Reed College, and he helped me prepare applications.
Castulo de la RochaGUEST
I applied to Reed, Grinnell.
Castulo de la RochaGUEST
I was concerned going so far, and my family was concerned.
Domyo BurkHOST
I moved out here to Oregon, to Portland, Oregon, to go to college.
Domyo BurkHOST
So I went to Reed College.
Domyo BurkHOST
And after that, I...
Domyo BurkHOST
I got married shortly after college to another Reedy.
David PerlisGUEST
I mean, he spent a lot of time hanging out, partying, and sharing his wisdom with the Grateful Dead.
David PerlisGUEST
Through poets like Lou Welch, another Beat figure who went to Reed College with Gary Snyder and Philip Whelan, and followed them to Marin County, and ended up in a relationship with a woman named Magda Craig, a talented artist in her own right, who had a son named Hugh Craig, who would later change his name to Huey Lewis.
David PerlisGUEST
So there were people who were actively connecting these generations.
David PerlisGUEST
Peter Coyote is another figure who jumps to mind that really bridged generations, or Anne Halperin, for instance.
speaker_1HOST
But look at the mechanism of how they handled adversity.
speaker_1HOST
Langan went to Reed College on a scholarship.
speaker_1HOST
His mother accidentally missed a deadline to fill out a financial aid form and the school revoked his funding.
speaker_0HOST
And Langan just accepted it and dropped out.
David HydeHOST
I'll bet.
David HydeHOST
Well, Sandeep and I both went to Reed College, so we-
Sandeep KaushikHOST
Right
David HydeHOST
... appreciate both sides of the Trippi here.
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