A good debate does something campaigns tend to avoid, but ought to do more of: it makes trade-offs explicit. Participants must define assumptions, defend priorities, and confront where values or strategies genuinely diverge.
For an audience, this can be far more informativeβand ππππ ππππ£ππππππ - than polished messaging.
The value of debates is diagnostic. They surface where a movement is aligned, and which questions still need answering.
Note: This comment was copy-pasted from my recent LinkedIn post for speed. Toby kindly flagged that it read a bit out of context, so just to clarify for other readers: this is not AI slop. Itβs human-authored LinkedIn slop π
A good debate does something campaigns tend to avoid, but ought to do more of: it makes trade-offs explicit. Participants must define assumptions, defend priorities, and confront where values or strategies genuinely diverge.
For an audience, this can be far more informativeβand ππππ ππππ£ππππππ - than polished messaging.
The value of debates is diagnostic. They surface where a movement is aligned, and which questions still need answering.
Note: This comment was copy-pasted from my recent LinkedIn post for speed. Toby kindly flagged that it read a bit out of context, so just to clarify for other readers: this is not AI slop. Itβs human-authored LinkedIn slop π
TLDR: Iβd love to see more debates.