Why Aviation Fatigue Rules Should Apply to Your Desk Job

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Aug 29, 2026 · 31m

After a brutal 14-hour flight from Dubai to Boston, Daniel got to wondering: why does aviation have such rigorous fatigue management rules, and why don't other industries? This episode unpacks the science behind aviation's approach — from the Colgan Air crash that changed everything to circadian-based duty limits and "just culture" reporting. We explore why self-assessment of fatigue is worthless, how cognitive tunneling makes tired people dangerously confident, and what it would take to import these protections into knowledge work, where the consequences of exhaustion are harder to trace but…