Frontier
Simon Tarr Simon Tarr

Frontier

This week I finished a class that I've adored teaching, revising, and re-teaching for sixteen years. Next term, that course will be led by someone else.

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UofSC Breakthrough Leadership Award
Simon Tarr Simon Tarr

UofSC Breakthrough Leadership Award

ST recieves the University of South Carolina’s Breakthrough Leadership in Research Award, recognize his interdisciplinary body of work and contributions to a culture of interdisciplinarity.

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Short Order GoTos
Simon Tarr Simon Tarr

Short Order GoTos

Urgent short term cycles sap our strength to do work that needs to be done. What is rewarded and promoted at your institution? Who is kept away from leadership?

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Rule 8
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Rule 8

Rule 8: “Don’t try to create and analyze at the same time. They’re different processes.”

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Remember Quark?
Simon Tarr Simon Tarr

Remember Quark?

More thoughts on student pricing for media and design software. Adobe should allow students to subscribe at the student rate on a month-to-month basis. Remember how eager everyone in design fields was to jump ship from Quark XPress?

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