Missing the point. This is not about how important your project is to "society" or how much risk there is of other people dying. This is about what goes on insi

Missing the point. This is not about how important your project is to "society" or how much risk there is of other people dying. This is about what goes on inside your head. When your brain decides how fast to make your heart pump, or how fast to breathe, or how tense to make your muscles -- it can't tell the difference between flying to the moon and building an ajax alarm clock. All it knows are what your emotional hot-spots are, the parts of you that matter to you... you are entirely capable of inflating the significance of whatever project you're working on just as large as the significance of Apollo to one of its engineers. Likewise, it's just as easy for the Apollo engineer to say "I was just doing my job" as it is for me to say "Holy shit I'm responsible for my baby nephew's livelihood because his dad is a partner in this startup"... Other people may not bat an eye when your web app fails, but you sure will.