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About the Author
Jeremy McEntire spent twenty-five years building and leading engineering teams — at Intel, at Twilio, at startups that scaled and startups that didn't. His roles spanned chief architect and CTO across early-stage startups and larger technology environments where scale pressures expose the underlying physics of organizational behavior.
He came to organizational theory through necessity: observing intelligent people in well-designed systems systematically degrading their own capabilities. When existing frameworks failed to explain what he saw, he began constructing his own from first principles — integrating mathematics, systems theory, corporate law, and empirical analysis into a unified explanation of organizational dysfunction.
McEntire writes and consults on organizational design, leadership, and the physics of coordination at scale. He lives and works in Oklahoma City.
Contact: contact@cageandmirror.com
Books
The Key and the Current
The Science of Why Systems Fail the Same Way at Every Scale
A companion to The Cage and the Mirror. The same failure appears in a microservice, a standup meeting, a corporate board, and a language model. Drawing on dynamical systems, information theory, and high-dimensional geometry, identifies the structural dynamic that produces dysfunction wherever compression and selection interact.
Introduction to Applied Synthesis
Foundations of Integrative Reasoning — Third Edition
A rigorous course in motivated perception — the systematic ways human reasoning becomes captured by forces we don't perceive. Fourteen domains where perception fails, each posed as a problem without a clean solution.
Beyond Code
Context, Constraints, and the New Craft of Software
Software engineering as structural reasoning — why the hardest problems in code are organizational, not technical.
Research Papers
Downloadable PDFs of the full research framework
Media Contact
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