The Blameless Postmortem That Still Blames You
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You’ve been in that retro. The slide already says This is a blameless postmortem. Someone pastes a Slack timeline, a facilitator reminds the room to focus on systems not people, and a fresh Jira epic swallows the action items. You nod along, camera off, and you think the same thing you’ve been thinking for six months: I still feel like I’m being written up. We got fluent in the vocabulary of psychological safety years ago. Nobody asks “who broke this?” anymore. We ask “what allowed this failure