Howard Davis

Google studied 180 teams. Talent was not the answer. Psychological safety explained 43% of team performance. Talent fills seats. Safety builds teams. jonno@consultclarity.org

After shouts of Hosanna, Jesus enters the temple & clears out those who have used religion to exploit people. He then welcomes the blind & paralyzed in the temple & heals them. Holy Week reminds us that Jesus has a furious love for those the world has little regard for.

Wow. From my experience also… It is always the ones who really care that get transitioned out.

On having friendships with people who hold different beliefs than you do. buff.ly/a5nbrZQ A vanishing good in polarized times.

Educational standards will fall by 17% in the USA if they keep pushing AI tutors into schools & colleges A 2024 paper found "access to GPT-4 can harm educational outcomes." Students who use GPT in class perform 17% worse in exams without GPT access. What has changed since this paper was published? A following study in 2025 showed: Generative AI without guardrails can harm learning: Evidence from high school mathematics. link👇

Why Asian kids do better in school than anyone else:

Burk Parsons: “Pay them well, compensate them well, love them, encourage them — & quit causing trouble.” Stephen Nichols: “They’re there because they love people, and just small encouragements from you — that’s often all they need.”

After the resurrection and ascension of Jesus, the apostles carried the gospel far beyond Jerusalem. Early Christian tradition places them across the Mediterranean world, preaching Christ, planting churches, and in many cases giving their lives for the message they proclaimed.

This is the likely path Jesus walked into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday more than 2000 years ago, and it still exists. Right here. In Jerusalem.

One of the more unforgettable sequences in NCAA tournament history:

Sober warning for all of us

Christians have nothing to be smug about. We are not righteous people trying to correct the unrighteous. Just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread. - R.C. Sproul

Where to read what happened each day of Holy Week. Palm Sunday: Matt. 21:1–11 Monday: Matt. 21:12–22 Tuesday: Matt. 21:23–26:5 Wednesday: Matt. 26:6–16 Thursday: Matt. 26:17–75 Friday: Matt. 27:1–61 Saturday: Matt. 27:62–66 Easter Sunday: Matt. 28:1–20 thegospelcoalition.org/article/easter…

“Schools in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Michigan that once bought devices for each student are now re-evaluating heavy classroom technology use”

Overprotected kids become unprepared adults. Dawn Staley nailed it.🔥 You can’t shelter your child from every hard moment and then expect them to handle adversity when it counts. Hard is the lesson. Watch. Share. Bookmark.

This Easter, I invite you to look at Jesus, consider what he said and did, and ask for yourself what I believe is the most important question you will ever answer: Did he really leave behind an empty tomb? And if he did, what does that mean for you? This video was made possible and in collaboration with my friends at @ChildlikeMedia.

In a recent interview with Jim Daly, Ben Sasse answered several challenging questions about how to respond to suffering with both Christian faith and hope: "I don't want to be aggressive with the intellectualist rationalist side, but God tells us in Scripture everything we need to know for faith and life, but He doesn't tell us everything we want to know or everything that we ultimately will know. And He is God. And to whom else would we go? So, I trust Him because He is who He is, and He has been faithful.  And so, I won't get every answer this side of eternity... Death is an enemy. Death is wicked. But it's the final enemy. It's our last battle. And after that, there will be no more tears. And so, we will have these answers, and we will know that God used it for His good." Please keep praying for him and his family. (Full link below)

Wharton researchers gave nearly 1,000 high school math students access to ChatGPT during practice problems Result: chatGPT is the perfect trap. Look at the red bars. Students with ChatGPT crushed their practice sessions. The basic ChatGPT group solved more problems and those on the "tutor" version did even more. Now look at the gray bars. That's the exam. No AI allowed. The ChatGPT group scored 17% worse than kids who practiced with zero technology. And the fancy tutor version? No better than working alone. The researchers called AI a "crutch." When they analyzed what students actually typed into ChatGPT, most of them just wrote - “What’s the answer?” The kicker: students who used ChatGPT believed it hadn't hurt their learning. They were confidently wrong. This is the AI trap in education. Outsourcing your thinking. Of course, lots of half-baked AI literacy curricula being rolled out in schools now Let’s of course ignore that basic literacy (the ability to read) is possible for <50% of 8th graders Source: Bastani et al. (2025), "Generative AI Can Harm Learning," PNAS

"This is true spirituality. Spirituality...means that Christ is the Lord of all your life and not just your religious life. And if you make a dichotomy in these things, you are denying your Lord His proper place. And I don't care how many butterflies you have in your stomach, you are poor spiritually." - Francis Schaeffer in 1982

I’m in love with this sentence: “The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”