The most visible part of a problem is not always where its real leverage resides. A first-person examination of dependency, sovereignty, deployment, and the strategic value of looking upstream to discover what must remain true for a problem to continue.
Tag Archives: technology
The Energy Illusion
The energy transition is not simply a contest between renewables and hydrocarbons. It is a systems challenge involving infrastructure, deployment, reliability, scale, and resilience—and understanding the difference may determine what actually works.
The Pilots We Send Into the World
From Grand Forks to cockpits around the world, UND Aerospace is preparing more than pilots. It is developing aviation professionals whose judgment, discipline and leadership will carry passengers, companies and missions safely into the future.
NASA Tests in Grand Forks
NASA’s decision to test a lunar wastewater system at UND reveals a larger opportunity for Grand Forks: becoming a place where promising technologies move from demonstration toward dependable, real-world deployment.
Acts of Fatherhood
A father-son memory from the 1991 World Series becomes a reflection on fatherhood, unexpected kindness, and the moments we create for our children without knowing what they will carry into their own lives.
The Intelligence Surplus
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.
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.