Organizing Complexity: How Architects Collaborate To Build The World Around Us

Amanda Silver
The Startup
Published in
7 min readJun 10, 2019

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I’ve spent my career to-date building operations teams at early-stage companies, and have always been fascinated by the question: how do groups get things done? Organizing Complexity is a series of articles where I’ll be unpacking the structures and systems developed in various contexts, from software engineering to foraging ants, that enable groups of individuals to solve collective problems. The goal of this series is not to reach a forgone conclusion about what is the best system, but instead to shed some light on the

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Amanda Silver
The Startup

Workplace researcher and storyteller; passionate about using operations to improve jobs. Subscribe to Workable for news on changing work: https://bit.ly/2LAonT2