The Seven Deadly SinsRichard Huntington
The Seven Deadly SinsOf Planning
GluttonyOver indulgence to the point of extravagance or waste
Don’t indulge in the planning echo chamber
Build your own approach from evidence and experience
EnvyWhen someone lacks another’s superior quality, achievement or possessions and
desires them
Resist your envy for people that ‘make things’
Making meaning is far more powerful than simply making
things
LustThe feeling of intense desire for sex,
power and expensive things
Making the work great sounds sexy but its not your job
Your job is to make sure the work solves the problem
GreedAn inordinate or insatiable
longing for wealth, status and power
Don’t become a servant of your client’s greed and wishful thinking
Your real client is your customer not the people that pay you
SlothA habitual disinclination to exertion
You are fucking good, perhaps you needn’t work so hard
Anxiety maketh the planner
WrathIntense response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat
You are rightly angry about inclusivity and diversity
Improving the inclusivity and diversity of our work is on you
PrideFoolish or irrationally corrupt sense of
one’s personal value
You think that we have a god given right to exist
Changing reality is the only fit job for a planner