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Clarity Does Not Necessarily Emerge Through Prolonged Debate

Don’t waste time on that. There is a better and more professional way to exchange different ideas.

Zhimin Zhan
7 min readDec 16, 2023
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Not long ago, I watched a YouTube video and heard this famous host say, “I no longer agree on debate leading to clarity. Nowadays, instead, it is more likely to lead to an exchange of hateful words. I am a strong advocate of free speech. In my opinion, the best way is to allow two parties to express their different views and leave others to decide. No direct inter-communication or debate between the two”.

I wholeheartedly agree. This article shows my experience in Test Automation and nearly three years of tech blogging.

Table of Contents:
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Debates are often Pointless
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Social Media Altered our Mindset towards Change
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The feedback received from my writing
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I welcome disagreement with the substance

Debates are often Pointless

In the 90s, many debate teams at Universities studied US Presidential debates. In recent years, I seldom watched election debates (Australian ones or US Presidential ones). Why? There seemed never substantial outcomes. Every party claimed…

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Zhimin Zhan
Zhimin Zhan

Written by Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.

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