Artificial intelligence is making intelligence abundant, but more information does not guarantee better decisions. The Intelligence Surplus explores why clarity, judgment, and the ability to distinguish activity from progress may become the real competitive advantages of the AI era.
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The Greek Way Is Still Here
Edith Hamilton’s The Greek Way still speaks directly to the modern world. Through Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, I explore certainty, institutional blindness, human contradiction and satire—and why the ancient Greeks still understand the systems we inhabit today.
The Catcher in the Rye
A personal reflection on The Catcher in the Rye and the evolution from seeing contradiction as phoniness to becoming curious about the distance between what people say, what systems intend, and what is actually true.
The Other Room
An examination of what happens when organizations stop questioning what they already “know”—and how clarity can reveal the distance between the company you have and the company you could have.
The First Deliverable
The First Deliverable challenges the traditional view of consulting by arguing that the most valuable outcome is not a report or recommendation, but a permanent change in perception. Joe Cozart explains how clearer understanding leads to better questions, better decisions, and more effective strategy through the principles of the Clarity Algorithm.
The Defensive Sky
GMJoe™ Consulting examines the emerging counter-UAS defense architecture as drones, autonomous interceptors, AI, sensors, edge computing, and command systems converge. The T3 Defense–Project35 transaction offers a revealing signal: the next phase of unmanned aviation may be less about who can enter the sky than who can control it.
The Young Men Who Invented an Old Country
America’s Founders were far younger than their marble portraits suggest. Their greatest legacy may not have been a finished system of government, but the audacity to question inherited authority, redesign failing institutions, and refuse to believe the past had the right to decide the future.
The Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit explores the distance required to see beyond the systems we inhabit—from the chessboard to the stadium to the universe itself—and asks whether consciousness can ever perceive the larger reality containing it.
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US AND REALITY
We increasingly know the world through descriptions of it—headlines, algorithms, institutions, and inherited narratives. The Distance Between Us and Reality examines what happens when representation becomes more powerful than direct experience, and why clarity may depend on knowing the difference between what we see and what we are being shown.
An excerpt from my new book The Ninth Circuit ~ The Distance To See
There are things we cannot see because they are too far away, and there are things we cannot see because we are standing too close.
Civilization has devoted extraordinary effort to solving the first problem. We have built telescopes to extend vision across billions of light-years, microscopes to enter worlds invisible to the eye, instruments capable of detecting what none of our senses can perceive, and machines capable of examining quantities of information beyond the capacity of any individual mind. Much of human progress has proceeded from the assumption that if something remains unclear, we should move closer, look harder, measure more precisely, gather more information, and increase the resolution.
This has served us remarkably well. It may also have concealed another form of blindness.