Simon Tarr 4/27/22 Simon Tarr 4/27/22

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.

Simon Tarr 6/9/21 Simon Tarr 6/9/21

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.

Simon Tarr 10/19/20 Simon Tarr 10/19/20

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?

Simon Tarr 10/11/20 Simon Tarr 10/11/20

Rule 8

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

Simon Tarr 8/3/20 Simon Tarr 8/3/20

The Assumption of Perpetual Dominance

Assumed perpetual dominance, overestimation of customer loyalty, underestimation of competitors. Beware.

Simon Tarr 7/8/20 Simon Tarr 7/8/20

Algorithms and Creative Destruction

We must make our own spaces to accelerate the creative destruction of these publishers before they are enshrined by the state.

Simon Tarr 6/29/20 Simon Tarr 6/29/20

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?