Guilt

Noun · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. The feeling that you have done something wrong or failed to meet a responsibility or expectation. In work culture guilt can motivate repair and accountability, but it can also become corrosive when teams personalize every system failure.

    In plain English: The feeling of having done something wrong or let people down.

    Example: "The postmortem lead made a point of separating accountability from guilt so engineers could talk honestly about mistakes without collapsing into self-protection."

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