That's right, folks. Planners don't just ramble, make interesting charts with triangles and oblongs on, and feed biscuits to housewives in return for their fascinating views on washing powder.
They also blog.
Two excellent planning blogs I have found recently areRussell Davies and Northern Planner.
Highly recommended, whatever side of the fence you're on.
7 comments:
It's all football. I suspected planners never did anything useful and now I know.
Planners tend to be useful for giving you a balanced view instead of just opinion. Judging by your blog I'd agree that they haven't been useful to you at all.
Planners tend to be useful for giving you a balanced view instead of just opinion. Judging by your blog I'd agree that they haven't been useful to you at all.
Anonymous - Not sure if your comment was meant for me or 'writer'.
And not quite sure what you mean anyway.
Can even the loftiest planner claim a purely objective view?
And isn't everything we do based on opinion (or at least interpretation) rather than fact?
The best planners have strong opinions, and back them up with arguments / evidence.
Scamp, that's a really useful way of looking at it. Never really thought of it that way.
Interesting. I think you may be right about planning Scamp.
I tend to think of strategy this way too - opinion supported by evidence.
Sometimes things are obviously wrong. But a lot of the time we are being asked to think about things that haven't happened yet. So there is no way we can have the right answer.
We sift through all the available information, we think about it, and we form an opinion that can be supported.
Ultimately, the consumption of creative work is the construction of subjective meaning. So I guess a good planner perhaps aspires to the the state of multiple subjectivity, understanding the opinions of the many?
Or perhaps group subjectivity.
http://farisyakob.typepad.com/blog/2006/06/critical_mass_l.html
Russell is a legend... being linked to from his site alone has quadrupled my page views in less than a month!
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