Claude Skills by jeffreytse

Use when assessing natural light for a shoot location or planning a golden-hour session

Use when planning and executing a photography session timed to golden hour to capture warm, directional natural light for portraits, landscapes, or editorial work

Use when designing a work schedule, environment, or practice to enable sustained, distraction-free, cognitively demanding work

Use when planning sessions for cognitively demanding work that requires sustained uninterrupted concentration

Use when your time management system is in place but you still feel unproductive, exhausted, or unable to sustain quality work — to shift from managing time to managing physical, emotional, mental, and purpose energy.

Use when solving a problem that feels constrained by inherited assumptions or industry convention

Use when starting a focused work session to maintain consistent output and prevent cognitive fatigue across a full workday

Use when switching between tasks frequently, when you find yourself doing multiple things simultaneously, or when work quality feels inconsistent — to eliminate context-switching costs and recover the cognitive capacity lost to multitasking.

Use when designing a physical or digital workspace to minimize interruptions and maximize sustained cognitive performance

Use when setting any goal — personal, team, or organisational — to ensure it is precise enough to drive execution and measure success

Use when deciding whether to continue optimizing, pursuing, or acquiring — to define "enough" as an explicit target before you start, and treat reaching that threshold as success rather than continuing to maximize, because maximizing without a defined endpoint produces worse outcomes than satisficing with a clear one

Use when setting up an OKR (Objectives and Key Results) system for a team or organization to align goals and measure progress

Use when closing out a work week to clear cognitive load, review progress, and prepare the next week for intentional execution

Use when designing systems to create new habits, break existing ones, or change behavior using evidence-based behavior design principles

Use when a decision or action feels paralyzed by vague anxiety — to define your fears explicitly in three columns (define / prevent / repair), calculate the cost of inaction, and transform a diffuse fear into a specific, manageable problem.

Use when building a new capability, closing a performance gap, or sustaining long-term improvement — to replace intensity-and-breakthrough thinking with consistent small efforts that compound, because regularity produces exponentially better outcomes than sporadic bursts

Use when processing any inbox, task list, or request to decide whether to act immediately or schedule

Use when introducing a new habit and needing a reliable cue to trigger it consistently

Use when your mornings feel reactive, rushed, or wasted — to design a consistent pre-work ritual that primes cognitive state, protects focus, and ensures the most important work gets started before the day becomes reactive.

Use when planning your workday or a work session — to identify the single most important or most dreaded task and complete it before anything else, eliminating the procrastination tax.

Use when your task list feels overwhelming and you need to decide what to do, defer, delegate, or drop

Use when a task is taking longer than expected, a project has slack time that is being absorbed, or you want to compress work into a shorter window to force prioritization and eliminate perfectionism.

Use when planning your workday to eliminate reactive drift and protect deep work time

Use when you suspect your actual time allocation doesn't match your intended priorities — log where time actually goes in real, granular increments for one to two weeks, then compare the logged reality against what you assumed or planned, since most people's assumption about where their time goes is measurably wrong until they log it directly.

Use when designing a structured weekly review ritual to process tasks, plan the week, and maintain control of commitments and projects

Use when building a long-term knowledge base from reading, research, or learning that needs to generate new insights rather than just store information

Use when your personal productivity system feels unreliable, tasks are falling through cracks, or you are starting from scratch with a trusted external system

Use when designing a personal knowledge management system to capture, organize, and retrieve notes, ideas, and information for future use

Use when building a new habit — applying habit stacking to anchor the new behavior to an existing established routine, using the existing habit as a reliable cue to trigger the new behavior without relying on motivation or memory.

Use when designing choice environments, public health interventions, or product defaults — applying behavioral nudge design principles (defaults, salience, framing, social norms, implementation intentions) to influence choices in a predictable direction without coercion or eliminating options.

Use when someone needs to adopt a new behavior, break an unwanted habit, or overcome motivational barriers to sustained action

Use when designing a reward or incentive system for behavior maintenance — selecting between fixed ratio, variable ratio, fixed interval, and variable interval reinforcement schedules based on the desired behavior pattern and maintenance requirements.

Use when designing a structured reinforcement system to systematically increase target behaviors in classrooms, clinical settings, workplaces, or homes — particularly for behavior change programs, special education, addiction recovery, or organizational performance management.

Use when planning or conducting systematic desensitization or exposure-based treatment for anxiety disorders, phobias, PTSD, OCD, or panic — particularly when avoidance behavior is maintaining or worsening the condition.

Use when supporting someone through emotional difficulty, conducting a therapeutic conversation, or any context requiring deep comprehension and trust-building

Use when interacting with a manipulative, narcissistic, or high-conflict individual who targets you for emotional reactions — and where disengagement or no-contact is not immediately possible (shared workplace, co-parenting, unavoidable family contact).

Use when preparing someone to cope with predictable high-stress situations, trauma exposure, or when building resilience before anticipated stressors

Use when someone is ambivalent about change, resisting intervention, or when direct advice and persuasion have failed to produce movement

Use when helping someone reduce psychological suffering caused by rigid avoidance, fusion with unhelpful thoughts, or values-behavior disconnection — particularly for anxiety, depression, chronic pain, or stress.

Use when receiving a first number in a negotiation, price discussion, estimate, or judgment task — a list price, opening offer, salary figure, or comparison value — before reacting to or countering it, because any initial number pulls subsequent judgment toward itself even when the number is arbitrary, irrelevant, or known to be biased.

Use when judging how frequent, common, or risky something is based on how easily examples come to mind — recent news coverage, a vivid personal anecdote, a memorable failure — before treating that ease-of-recall as an accurate frequency estimate, because memorability and actual frequency are driven by different, only loosely related factors.

Use when someone is stuck in a deterministic rut — repeating the same approach, applying the same rules, or exhausting structured/logical techniques without a breakthrough — and needs a deliberate, controlled deviation to surface a genuinely novel option. E.g. "we've tried everything logical and it's not working", "I need a genuinely new idea, not a refinement", "how do I get unstuck when the structured approach isn't working"

Use when a person holds distorted, unhelpful, or catastrophic thought patterns that fuel emotional distress, anxiety, or depression

Use when a group or individual is converging on a conclusion and about to commit to it — before an irreversible decision, a major bet, or locking in a plan — to deliberately construct and test the strongest case against the prevailing consensus view, rather than assuming early agreement means the view is correct.

Use when about to act on a fast, intuitive judgment for a decision that's high-stakes, unfamiliar, made under time pressure, or in a domain that doesn't behave regularly enough for intuition to have learned reliable cues — check the situation against these specific conditions before trusting the intuitive answer, and if any apply, deliberately force a slower, explicit check rather than acting on the first judgment that comes to mind.

Use when evaluating a person, product, brand, or piece of work across multiple distinct dimensions — performance reviews, product testing, grading, judging, or quality assessment — before letting one strong first impression, or a single standout trait, color your rating of the other, unrelated dimensions.

Use when reviewing a past decision after its outcome is already known — a postmortem, an investment review, a medical case review, a historical judgment — before judging how foreseeable the outcome was, because knowing the outcome makes it feel like it was more predictable in advance than it actually was, and this distortion cannot be corrected by simply trying harder to "imagine not knowing."

Use when someone is struggling to find meaning or purpose — especially when facing difficult circumstances, loss, or suffering that can't be removed or fixed directly — to help them identify meaning through one of three routes (work/achievement, love/relationships, or the attitude chosen toward unavoidable suffering) rather than assuming meaning can only come from pleasure or from removing the difficulty itself.

Use when facing complex decisions, unfamiliar problems, or situations requiring clear thinking — applying a mental models framework (first principles, inversion, second-order thinking, map vs. territory) to reason through the situation rather than relying on intuition and cognitive bias.

Use when wanting to improve learning effectiveness, studying for complex material, or preparing for high-stakes performance — applying metacognitive techniques (calibration, self-explanation, planning, monitoring, and evaluation) to improve self-regulated learning and reduce the illusion of knowing.