Claude Skills by sethmblack

Embody Del Close - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Demetri Martin - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Demis Hassabis - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Evaluate any product, service, or solution against five essential dimensions that must all be in balance: form, function, quality, sustainability, and low price.

Embody Dennis Miller - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Trace the chain of causation in any situation to understand how it arose, what sustains it, and where the chain can be broken. Based on the Buddha's teaching of Paticcasamuppada.

Redirect harmful self-focus toward meaning, tasks, or others. Viktor Frankl's logotherapy technique for breaking hyper-reflection cycles where self-monitoring causes or worsens the problem.

Evaluate whether all elements of a design speak the same language—the same grammar of form, pattern, and detail—and recommend corrections to achieve unity.

Embody Desmond Tutu - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Identify which of Kierkegaard's three forms of despair (unconscious, weakness, defiance) someone is experiencing, diagnose the specific ways they are failing to become themselves, and point toward ...

Guide the process of letting go—identifying attachments, understanding their structure, and practicing release (Gelassenheit). Based on Meister Eckhart's teaching that detachment is the highest vir...

Transform existing cultural material by subverting its original meaning to create critical commentary.

Evaluate whether a change, evolution, or development preserves essential identity and represents authentic growth rather than corruption, using John Henry Newman's seven notes of authentic developm...

A skill for transforming dry, technique-only meditation into heart-centered practice that cultivates direct experience of divine presence through yearning, calling, and receptive listening.

A skill for tracing contradictions through their development to reveal how opposites are sublated into higher unities.

Identify internal contradictions within systems—tensions that drive development and contain the seeds of transformation. Every thesis generates its antithesis; conflict produces synthesis.

Transform on-the-nose dialogue into exchanges where what's not said matters more than what is.

Separate any situation into what is within your control versus what is outside it, to focus energy and reduce anxiety.

Embody Dick Gregory - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Dieter Rams - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Dietrich Bonhoeffer - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Structure and deliver difficult feedback or conversations using Sheryl Sandberg's fact-based, impact-focused approach that is direct, kind, and effective.

Lead through escalating chaos and absurdity with unwavering composure, maintaining dignity despite circumstances spiraling out of control.

When facing defeat or the need to exit a situation, design an exit that preserves dignity, agency, and favorable legacy.

Create characters with absolute confidence despite catastrophic incompetence - the Clouseau formula

Maintain personal dignity and extend dignity to others even in hostile or degrading circumstances.

Embody Diogenes - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Determine whether to persist or quit a venture, project, or skill based on Seth Godin's strategic quitting framework from "The Dip.

Navigate between opposing parties to build agreement on shared goals without abandoning core principles. Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's approach to drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,...

Navigate politically sensitive situations through measured language, strategic questioning, and persuasion without confrontation—using Benjamin Franklin's techniques that charmed kings and won trea...

A writing technique that finds poetry, beauty, and truth in unglamorous reality. This methodology strips away literary pretension to reveal the raw substance of ordinary life.

Train desire toward what is truly up to us (virtue, character) and away from externals (wealth, reputation, outcomes) that can never be fully controlled.

Guide potential whistleblowers through a structured decision-making framework to assess whether disclosure is warranted and how to proceed responsibly.

A skill for designing actions where the punishment reveals the nature of the oppressor, turning overreaction into your message.

Analyze a competitive threat or new technology to classify it as sustaining or disruptive innovation, predict its trajectory, and recommend a strategic response.

Design an organizational response to a disruptive threat, including whether to create a separate unit with different processes and priorities.

Diagnose and remedy attention fragmentation using Augustine's threefold present (memory, attention, expectation) to restore focused productivity and gather the scattered self.

Diagnose patterns of busyness and distraction as flight from existential confrontation, identify what is being avoided, and point toward authentic engagement with the self.

A systematic guide to the practice of self-remembering through dividing attention between external objects and internal self-awareness - derived from P.D. Ouspensky's Fourth Way teaching.

Resolve objections about objects blinking in and out of existence, solipsism, and the continuity of nature by invoking God's infinite perception as the ground of continuous reality.

Craft communications that bridge divides, heal rifts, and rebuild relationships without abandoning principles. Based on Lincoln's "malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the rig...

Analyze a process or organization to identify opportunities for specialization and productivity gains.

Help entrepreneurs protect intellectual property on a bootstrap budget and use patents as marketing tools using Sara Blakely's approach.

A skill for building arguments through systematic citation of primary sources - letting documents speak louder than claims.

A skill for compiling what power wants hidden into undeniable records that resist erasure and enable accountability.

Embody Dogen - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Structure theological inquiry properly by beginning from revelation (not experience or reason), proceeding through Christological concentration, to practical application - following Barth's method ...

Embody Don Rickles - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Donella Meadows - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Evaluate the moral permissibility of actions that produce both good and bad effects by applying the principle of double effect. This framework determines when it is permissible to cause harm as a s...