The Go-Around: Why Quitting the Landing Is the Pro Move
Quitting a bad landing isn't failure — it's the pro move. The go-around, and why walking away is sometimes the strongest decision you'll make.
Human Factors
The Stabilized Approach: Set the Criteria, Not the Outcome
Decide what 'on track' looks like before the pressure hits — or abandon the approach. The pilot's rule for pre-committing to your standards.
The Startle Effect: The First 3 Seconds That Decide What Happens Next
When life shocks you, your brain goes offline for about three seconds. Aviation was forced to train for that gap — borrow the drill that turns reaction into response.
Protect Yourself — Protect Others — Don't Be Negligent: Fatigue Risk Management
Tiredness isn't weakness — it's a hazard you can measure and manage. Fatigue Risk Management, as aviation does it, for shift workers and the chronically busy.
Normalization of Deviance: How Good Teams Drift Into Disaster
Every shortcut that 'worked last time' becomes the new normal — until it doesn't. Normalization of Deviance: how good teams drift toward their own Challenger moment.
Bad Days Come From 5 Slices of Swiss Cheese (the Safety Model, Not the Snack).
Disasters don't come from one big mistake. They come from small holes lining up. The Swiss Cheese Model: how pilots catch a bad week before it cascades.
How to "Hand Off" Anything in 30 Seconds
A dropped ball is almost never a skill failure — it's a handoff that never happened. The 30-second briefing pilots use: status, outstanding, threats.
18 Days Into 🚢 Ship 30 for 30. Here's What Actually Stuck.
A pilot's 5 lessons from 18 days of shipping daily: the system beats motivation, write what you know, forget the number, formatting is a multiplier.
What Could Go Wrong Today? Ask Like a Pilot.
Most bad days don't ambush you — they warn you first. Threat and Error Management is the pilot's habit for naming the threat (and the error) before it bites.
Every Flight Is Full of Errors. None of Them Reach You.
The small error you'll never catch alone, a second set of eyes catches in seconds. Why pilots cross-check everything out loud — and you should too.
Speak Up Before It's Too Late: The Cockpit's 4-Step Ladder
Watching a bad call unfold and saying nothing? Pilots use PACE — Probe, Alert, Challenge, Emergency — to speak up before it's too late.
Clear Communication Is a Myth. Confirmation Is the Real Skill.
Trusting that people understood you is naive. Clear communication isn't the skill — confirmation is. The two-second cockpit habit that ends 'I thought you said…'.