You may have seen me get into a little local trouble a short while ago, over a badly written post about different agency departments being, well, different. I was glad when all that blew over….
Then I read this post. Or, to be more specific, the comments. Obviously memories are long, assuming it’s to do with that long gone incident. On the other hand, maybe it’s nothing to do with that, maybe someone has just decided to be like that based on, well, who knows?
Serves me right I guess, if someone decides to put themselves out there, they can’t expect everyone to be nice, and one should learn to not take things personally.
But that’s the thing about online stuff, it’s still about people. The groups may be bigger, but the meaning of the words we use don’t change. Maybe I should learn to not follow the links, but once you’ve read something, you can’t take it back.
Now, I’m not just getting silly over comments on someone else’s blog, from some smart arse I’ve never met. I’ve been thinking about this ever since ‘the incident’.
Suddenly I find myself looking over my shoulder when I’m posting. That means shying away from opinions and the personal, in favour of posts about pure planning craft. Or maybe the reverse, maybe it’s time to do something else. I still think someone needs to speak up for rigor and doing things properly, but it’s a bit one dimensional if that’s it.
Anyway, that’s a long winded way of saying that, for now anyway, you only see posts about planning and not much else. I’ll be working out what I want to do. Maybe that’s a good thing, there’s nothing more boring than someone talking about themselves is there?
NORTHERN PLANNER 
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