Cage & Mirror Publishing
Articles
Shorter pieces on organizations, leadership and institutions, published elsewhere.
A selection. The complete list is at perardua.dev.
No Concerns
LinkedIn · October 4, 2026A standardized interview can only set a low bar: an incident-response wargame shows what a checklist misses about strong engineers.
Lead by Need
LinkedIn · September 27, 2026Whether a company is sales-, product- or engineering-led should be decided by its current constraint, not by what worked last time.
A Bright Idea (and where to put it)
LinkedIn · September 27, 2026How unfiltered executive ideas fragment a team's work and leave strong engineers unable to say what matters.
Discovering Excellence
LinkedIn · September 12, 2026As AI makes code nearly free, experienced engineers' judgment becomes the scarce asset organizations must find and keep.
Contracts Before Code
LinkedIn · June 12, 2026A field guide for organizing engineering teams around AI: implementation got cheap, while specifying correctness did not.
Why We Can't Have Nice Things
perardua.dev · May 20, 2026Hiring above the bar does not raise output when the institution's ratification floor caps what it can absorb.
I Have a Hunch
Medium · April 8, 2026Social science's loose use of the word theory erodes public trust in science, told through a desk rejection of the Cage and Mirror paper.
Your Agentic AI Is Recreating the Meetings It Was Supposed to Replace
Solutions Review · March 2, 2026An experiment comparing single-agent and multi-agent AI shows multi-agent systems reproducing organizational coordination overhead.