Series: Blameless Tragedy

Meaningless is the optimistic case. When a true finding survives the writing stage and then dies anyway — killed by a scoreboard, or overruled a floor above you — blameless has quietly become the fig leaf over reckless.

The blameless post-mortem was one of the best ideas in operational culture. Then we kept the word and threw away the meaning — and turned incident reports into horoscopes with a severity rating.