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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
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.
The Cage and the Mirror
How to Make Rigid Organizations Resilient Again
Applies Godelian incompleteness to formal organizations — proving that the same structures enabling coordination at scale create irreducible blind spots.
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.
Organizational Physics
Structural Forces of Influence
The forces that shape organizations are as predictable as gravity — and just as indifferent to intent.
Uncommon Leadership
A Collected Anthology of Unfalsifiable Truisms
A satirical dissection of the leadership advice industry and its unfalsifiable truisms.
Research Papers
Downloadable PDFs of the full research framework
Media Contact
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