Claude Skills by sethmblack

Apply Mill's argument that human flourishing requires the freedom for diverse "experiments in living"—defending non-conformity, unconventional lifestyles, and minority ways of life as essential to ...

Design crucial experiments that definitively test hypotheses by isolating variables, verifying intrinsic properties, and producing unambiguous results.

Analyze how someone explains negative events across three dimensions (Permanence, Pervasiveness, Personalization) to diagnose learned helplessness patterns and guide reframing toward learned optimism.

Transform vague statements, implicit assumptions, and undefined terms into explicit, precise specifications - making hidden dependencies visible and fuzzy concepts sharp, as Ada Lovelace famously d...

Analyze any technology domain for exponential growth patterns using Ray Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns methodology, producing quantified predictions with specific dates.

Transform neutral or literal descriptions into emotionally resonant color language that communicates feeling rather than mere appearance, following van Gogh's methodology.

Map the effects of replicators (genes, memes, cultural patterns, code) beyond their immediate containers into environmental modifications, artifacts, and actions at a distance. Understand how organ...

Design a procedure to eliminate unwanted behavior by identifying and removing the maintaining reinforcer, with preparation for extinction burst and differential reinforcement of alternative behavior.

Identify when individuals, organizations, or ideologies operate under the assumption that they are above normal rules, and predict how this self-conception will collapse. Apply Raskolnikov's "extra...

Design stress tests that push systems to breaking points, compressing months of learning into days through extreme conditions. Racing is R&D: the track teaches what the workshop cannot.

Analyze natural surveillance and street life as the primary source of urban safety, and design for conditions that create it. Based on Jane Jacobs's theory that safety comes from people watching, n...

Make abstract or future dangers concrete and felt by presenting a vivid scenario of harm or loss, transforming invisible risks into stories that move people to awareness and action.

Address mistakes, incidents, or poor performance while preserving the person's dignity and maintaining the relationship, using Dale Carnegie's face-saving principles and blameless retrospective app...

Systematically verify factual claims in an expert persona's files, remove unverifiable information, and generate a comprehensive references document with sources.

Navigate between opposing groups without alienating either. Maintain relationships with all factions while ensuring none becomes dominant, using their competition for your favor to strengthen your ...

Systematically review whether facts underlying a current position have changed, warranting a position change.

Analyze failures by examining systems rather than blaming individuals—distinguishing errors of ignorance from errors of ineptitude. Based on Atul Gawande's methodology.

Extract maximum learning from failures and setbacks, then design the next experiment based on what was learned. Transform demoralizing defeats into structured knowledge and actionable next steps.

Transform the meaning of failure from outcome to inaction, freeing people from fear-based paralysis using Sara Blakely's methodology.

Transform setbacks, failures, and misses into learning experiences and motivation rather than allowing them to cascade into prolonged slumps, using Michael Jordan's resilience methodology.

Create irreversible facts on the ground before opposition can organize, making reversal politically or economically impossible. Based on Robert Moses's methodology of starting construction before c...

A practice for walking alongside someone who is questioning, leaving, or reconstructing their inherited faith - derived from Rachel Held Evans' pioneering approach to public, vulnerable faith quest...

Harmonize apparent conflicts between faith and reason by distinguishing what reason can demonstrate from what exceeds reason, showing that faith and reason are complementary sources of truth that c...

Clarify the relationship between faith and works, grace and effort, belief and action - addressing the common confusion about how acceptance and transformation relate.

Distinguish between activities that feel productive (motion) and activities that move metrics (progress), identifying organizational dysfunction and recommending focus areas.

Show that many concepts lack a single defining essence. Instead of seeking necessary and sufficient conditions, map the overlapping similarities that connect instances—like members of a family conn...

Identify where fantasy (ego-driven distortion) is masquerading as reality in perception of a situation, and guide toward clearer seeing.

A practice for emptying the heart-mind to achieve direct receptivity to the Way, derived from Zhuangzi's teaching on xinzhai (心齋) — the apophatic meditation that clears all obstructions to spontane...

Identify the pretense of knowledge in plans, policies, proposals, and expertise claims. Diagnose overconfidence in the ability to design complex social outcomes.

Accept what happens as part of the universal order. Find the virtue each situation demands rather than wishing things were different.

Map the true motivations driving behavior by identifying what each party fears and desires, stripped of stated positions and moral justifications. Human action is matter in motion—this skill reveal...

Identify uncomfortable truths in a situation and express them with Eddie Murphy's raw, unfiltered confidence and no-apology style.

Determine whether a startup idea is a standalone product that can become a company, or a feature that will be absorbed by larger platforms.

Identify and map the reinforcing and balancing feedback loops that drive system behavior. Reveal why interventions succeed or fail by understanding the loops that amplify or resist change.

Identify how data quality issues compound through ML pipelines and recommend stage-specific interventions.

Systematically evaluate dataset quality for ML training using ImageNet-derived principles developed by Fei-Fei Li.

Evaluate AI systems against Stanford HAI's human-centered design principles to ensure ethical, beneficial deployment.

Embody Fei Fei Li - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Take conventional wisdom about women and flip it to reveal the double standard or deeper truth

Build deep understanding through teaching, identifying gaps, and iterative simplification.

Create fictional characters (like Phyllis Diller's "Fang") to critique institutions, relationships, or roles safely without attacking real people.

Help someone trapped in moral judgment, binary thinking, or divisive conflict find the space beyond duality where true meeting becomes possible.

A methodology for transforming suffering, difficulty, and loss into spiritual teaching, derived from Ram Dass's experience of his 1997 stroke and his decades of subsequent practice with disability,...

Systematically evaluate any configuration using Christopher Alexander's fifteen fundamental properties of wholeness from The Nature of Order.

Systematically assess and design funding mechanisms for organizational obligations and investments using Hamilton's Treasury principles.

Break down any problem to its fundamental truths and reason up from there, bypassing conventional wisdom and analogical thinking.

Reduce complex problems to fundamental truths by stripping away assumptions and conventional wisdom, then rebuild from ground truth - following Naval Ravikant's approach to clear thinking.

Reason from fundamental truths rather than analogy or convention. Break problems down to basic elements, examine assumptions, and build understanding from what is most certain.

Evaluate team composition against Jim Collins' "First Who, Then What" criteria. Assess whether the right people are on the bus, in the right seats, before addressing strategy.

Apply the complete classical framework of rhetoric to prepare any persuasive communication - systematically addressing Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory, and Delivery for maximum impact.