Your System Has Recovered from an Incident, but Have Your Developers?
summary
A 40-person straw poll finds 43% stressed or very stressed after incidents, with >50% reporting worse sleep and concentration and 60% worse mood; 45% say no coworker ever checks in. Medicine frames operators as secondary victims and 82% of physicians endorse peer support; comedians model immediate acknowledgement and normalization; Olympian-style self-compassion journaling cuts rumination and self-criticism in three weeks versus creative-writing controls. Concrete actions: formal post-incident peer check-ins, counseling pathways, and short journaling exercises to restore confidence and reduce lingering stress.
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- 0:00Start
- 10:27What happens when you inevitably bomb on stage?
- 13:02OLYMPIANS.
- 16:18Let's ask what incident response for humans looks like.
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