You can always go deeper. Why did you fuck up? Because you didn't get enough sleep. Why didn't you get enough sleep? Because you were on-call at 3am. Why were

You can always go deeper. Why did you fuck up? Because you didn't get enough sleep. Why didn't you get enough sleep? Because you were on-call at 3am. Why were you on-call at 3am? Because the apps keep crashing once a week. Why are the apps crashing once a week? Because nobody has prioritized fixing them. Why has nobody prioritized fixing them? Because the feature work is higher priority. Or: Why did you fuck up? There was no validation of the change before applying it. Why was there no validation of the change? Because we've never prioritized validation. Why have we never prioritized validation? Because we don't think it's important. Why don't we think it's important? Because we never look back at our previous failures to see if there's a pattern of failures from lack of validation. So even from "I fucked up" we find a number of problems and things we can start addressing.