> psychological safety is a pre-requisite for a retrospective to be useful The first heading in the article is "High Psychological Safety". I didn't see any cl

> psychological safety is a pre-requisite for a retrospective to be useful The first heading in the article is "High Psychological Safety". I didn't see any claims of directional causality. > It's like winning the lottery and then writing about how you chose to spend the money as if that is going to help other people win the lottery. She notes that she's also worked in non-lottery conditions. A big part of discussing these experiences is to show that they can exist and that when they do, there are a number of beneficial outcomes for folks who are involved. I've worked at the same company she's writing about and my experiences gel with hers. The lottery-winning incident was being hired. After that it was all due to sustained, deliberate efforts by many individuals over a long time frame. Investing time and effort into being a safer, kinder, more humane workplace isn't buying a lottery ticket. It's investing time and effort. You divert some of today's time and effort to make it happen.