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About the Author
Jeremy McEntire has spent more than twenty years building software and leading engineering organizations — as an engineer at Mashery through its acquisition by Intel, leading Edge Services at Twilio, as Chief Product & Technology Officer at Appreciate, and at startups that scaled and startups that didn't. His work has spanned 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
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Author Spotlight: Jeremy McEntire
An interview on pattern recognition across scales — the structural mistakes that recur in code, architecture, teams, and institutions — and why most management writing lacks rigor and falsifiability.
Read on The US Review of Books Pulse 2.0Interview: The Organizational Physics of Multi-Agent AI
An interview on why multi-agent AI systems reproduce the coordination overhead of human organizations.
Read on Pulse 2.0 GEN — Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology NewsAgentic AI Swarms Degrade Decision-Making
Coverage of the multi-agent AI research and what its findings mean for automated decision-making.
Read on GEN Kirkus ReviewsReview: The Cage and the Mirror
Kirkus reviews The Cage and the Mirror.
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The US Review of Books reviews The Cage and the Mirror.
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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.
Research Papers
Downloadable PDFs of the full research framework
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