Xiao Ma(@maxiaoalex):So how do these officials actually get promoted? My book proposes an attention-based theory. In a vast bureaucracy drowning in information, a superior's attention is the scarcest resource. The key to advancement is simple but brutal: capture your superior's attention.

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Xiao Ma@maxiaoalex

2026.06.24 17:23

So how do these officials actually get promoted? My book proposes an attention-based theory. In a vast bureaucracy drowning in information, a superior's attention is the scarcest resource. The key to advancement is simple but brutal: capture your superior's attention.