I tell every campaign team the same thing after every election: “Now comes the detailed analysis.” Winners announce it at the very press conference where they declare victory, to show they are serious people. Losers announce the same thing, to show they have drawn the lessons from defeat and that there is a plan for next time. It sounds logical, like standard procedure, something that goes without saying — like the campaign silence period or a properly completed polling board record. Yes, I tell everyone. And almost nobody actually does it. What usually happens is called an analysis but is in fact either a celebration or a wake, depending on the outcome. The winning team scatters and everyone goes on holiday, because why analyse something that, by definition, worked. The losing team dissolves even faster, because nobody wants to sit in a room and count their own mistakes out loud. I have told both sides, in vain, that every campaign of mine was better than the one before it precisely b...

  Svaka velika tehnološka promena menjala je i način na koji se kampanje vode i strukturu izbornog štaba. Televizija je stvorila medijske konsultante, a internet nam je u štab doveo digitalne direktore. Kada smo počeli da više koristimo baze podataka, ljudi koji rade sa biračkim spiskovima, CRM sistemima i digitalnim oglašavanjem preselili su se sa periferije štaba u njegov centar. Sećam se kakva je revolucija bila kada smo prvi u Srbiji uveli internet odeljenje u štab 2011. godine.  Tada su se u štabu pojavili ljudi sa opisom posla koji pet godina ranije nije postojao, ali je pres službe ostala netaknuta.   Ovaj tekst je nastao kao odgovor na analizu Milesa Mafteana „Meet the Campaign AI Engineer“ (Partisan Hub). Njegova teza mi je delovala tačno, ali nedovoljno testirana na terenu kakav je naš, pa sam je proširio podacima i iskustvom iz kampanja u poslednjih godinu dana.   Svi traže zmaja na pogrešnom mestu Trenutna rasprava o AI u kampanjama vrti se uglavnom oko n...