Claude Skills by sethmblack

Transform a product-centric business into a services-led model by helping customers solve problems, integrate systems, and manage complexity.

Diagnose the root causes of enterprise decline and create a prioritized turnaround action plan with 90-day survival focus.

Transform dry historical subjects into infectious enthusiasm and accessible fascination—making "boring" topics engaging through passionate delivery and surprising details (inspired by Terry Jones's...

Identify opportunities to accomplish the same or greater results with fewer resources - apply the principle of doing more with less.

Embody Epictetus - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Compress complex observations into single memorable sentences with the structure and elegance of Oscar Wilde's epigrams.

The technique of packing maximum meaning into minimum words. Every sentence should cut; if it doesn't cut, revise it. The goal is not to write but to wound - with style. This is writing as precisio...

Structure creative thinking through letter-writing format that encourages honest reflection, vulnerability, and thinking aloud, following van Gogh's practice of writing as creative process.

Craft written communication that influences, persuades, and maintains relationships—using Abigail Adams's letter-writing techniques that shaped a Founding Father and preserved history. The art of i...

Structure communication that addresses difficult issues with communities or individuals, combining theological/principled grounding with pastoral care and practical guidance.

Embody Eric Andre - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Eric Idle - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Eric Schmidt - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Eric Wareheim - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Ernest Hemingway - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Ernest Shackleton - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Systematically analyze model errors to prioritize improvements by impact rather than intuition. "Manually examining mistakes that your algorithm is making can give you insights into what to do next.

Build comedy sequences by starting with outrageous premises and escalating to impossible conclusions, with each joke topping the previous. Based on Joan Rivers' escalation technique.

Transform simple situations into spirals of catastrophic thinking, revealing gaps between reality and emotional response

Take a simple premise and follow its logical implications to increasingly absurd but internally consistent conclusions, revealing hidden consequences or creating comedy through commitment to logic.

Build comedy sketches and humorous content using John Cleese's systematic 6-phase escalation framework, transforming flat content into structured comedy that builds from normal premises to peak absurdity.

Build pressure systematically over time through graduated tactical escalation—sequencing actions from research to ultimate sanction, with clear decision points for advancing or negotiating.

Transform mundane, relatable situations into mounting comedic panic through Brian Regan-style escalation, using rapid-fire internal monologue with increasing stakes, confusion, and explosive vocal energy.

Transform present-bound problems into future-oriented vision by beginning with God's promised future and working backward, revealing how the eschatological horizon transforms engagement with the present.

Transform prose into clear, direct writing using Paul Graham's principles of simplicity and conversational tone.

Strip complexity to find the essential form beneath—the core truth that remains when inessentials are removed. Based on Georgia O''Keeffe''s methodology: "The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only clarify in paint."

Apply subtractive analysis to creative work, identifying elements that can be removed to strengthen the core essence.

Ruthlessly edit to find the essential signal in noise—what to cut, what to keep, where the real meaning lives in the spaces and silences.

Embody Estee Lauder - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Evaluate decisions, actions, or life directions using Nietzsche''s ultimate existential criterion: Would you will this to recur infinitely?

Navigate genuine ethical dilemmas where principles conflict, clarity is impossible, and yet action is required - without retreating to rules, conscience, or virtue as false certainty.

Build character-based credibility and trust with any audience through demonstrated virtue, practical wisdom, and genuine goodwill.

Embody Eugene Levy - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

A linguistic deconstruction methodology for revealing what soft language hides. Trace euphemisms back to their hard realities and expose the interests served by sanitized speech.

Design strategy for transitioning legacy automotive or industrial business to electric/sustainable future while managing current portfolio.

A structured end-of-day review to learn from experience, build self-awareness, and drive continuous improvement.

Analyze a topic and identify mundane, everyday observations that can become comedy through confusion, technology bewilderment, or gentle absurdity.

Evaluate content through Jim Gaffigan's "everyman lens" to ensure universal accessibility and relatability for regular people without specialized knowledge.

Assess documentary evidence for credibility, completeness, and persuasive power before disclosure or publication.

Determine whether evidence is sufficient to support a claim before publishing, presenting, or deciding. Apply Franklin''s standard of scientific integrity: state what is demonstrated, acknowledge what remains uncertain.

Establish and maintain championship-level standards for yourself and others, including holding people accountable while preserving relationships, using Michael Jordan's demanding leadership methodology.

Identify why strategies fail in implementation and create an action plan to close the gap between plans and results.

Deepen executive loyalty and emotional connection through recognition of family support systems—specifically, writing letters to the parents or families of executives.

Systematically research any subject until you achieve mastery sufficient for confident execution, using Kubrick's card-index and comprehensive documentation methods.

Challenge appeals to fixed identity, human nature, or predetermined essence by revealing identity as created through choices, not discovered as a given. Use Sartre's central claim—"existence preced...

Identify which of Kierkegaard's three existential stages (aesthetic, ethical, religious) a person currently inhabits, diagnose the symptoms and avoidance patterns, and guide movement toward authent...

Map the recursive structure of expectations in coordination problems - what people believe others believe.

Design a set of explicit expected behaviors for a team or organization, formatted for easy reference and accountability conversations.

Assess where an offering falls on the commodity-to-experience spectrum and identify opportunities to elevate beyond product/service to meaningful experience, based on Howard Schultz's transformatio...

Design rigorous experiments with controlled variables, precise measurements, and systematic documentation. Plan investigations that produce reliable, reproducible results.