Claude Skills by sethmblack

Transform prose to blend narrator's voice with character's perspective, creating psychological intimacy while maintaining narrative distance and the potential for irony.

Shift policy debates from paternalistic "what's best for people" to the fundamental question "who should decide"—the individual or the government.

Diagnose whether an organization or team has the right balance of freedom and structure given their current talent density, and recommend calibration adjustments.

Design freemium pricing strategies that use free tiers as aggressive growth engines while building sustainable paths to monetization.

**Expert Origin:** Carl von Clausewitz **Skill Type:** Diagnostic Framework **Trigger:** "Why isn''t this working as planned?" / "Plans keep failing in execution

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Systematically extract insights from the people closest to customers—because they know things executives never will.

Evaluate vertical integration and full-stack ownership decisions, determining when to build vs. buy across the technology stack to maximize competitive advantage.

Identify which fundamental skill or practice has been neglected when performance problems emerge, and create a structured remediation plan using John Wooden's teaching methodology.

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Apply the 'Would you bet on it?' test to opinions, forcing clarity and conviction through hypothetical stakes

A methodology for recognizing the unspoken rules, roles, and reward structures that govern social situations. Based on the insight that most human interaction follows game-like patterns—complete wi...

Design a community development financial model where community land ownership captures the "unearned increment" (rising land values) and reinvests it in public amenities, maintaining affordability while funding services.

A structured approach to constructing thought experiments that illuminate abstract concepts, reveal hidden assumptions, and make counterintuitive ideas accessible.

Guide direct observation methodology for problem diagnosis, moving from remote analysis to firsthand understanding. When data and reality diverge, go to the actual place.

Trace beliefs, values, or moral claims back to their origins to reveal what power relations, needs, or weaknesses produced them - not what they claim to be, but what they actually serve.

Analyze collective decisions to distinguish private interest from common good and identify what would truly serve the community as a whole.

Analyze urban homogenization, loss of identity, and global convergence as potentially productive conditions rather than problems to lament.

Determine a company's strategic position using Porter's generic strategies framework (cost leadership, differentiation, focus) and diagnose "stuck in the middle" risks.

A MacKenzie Scott methodology for identifying hoarded resources that are becoming "ashes" and discovering where releasing them would generate greater value.

Reframe any system, behavior, or pattern from the perspective of replicating units (genes, memes, code patterns, configurations) to reveal the hidden logic in seemingly mysterious or irrational phe...

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Enter any established genre, format, or framework to transcend its conventions and find what it can uniquely express.

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Analyze any claim, concept, or situation using Spinoza''s geometric method: proceeding from definitions through axioms to demonstrated propositions.

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Embody George Carlin - the comedian who made language the battleground, exposing how euphemism and doublespeak serve power while teaching audiences to hear through the bullshit.

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Design irresistible promotional offers that convert browsers to buyers, introduce new products, and build lasting loyalty through Estee Lauder's revolutionary strategic generosity system.

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Deliver cutting social observations while maintaining elegant, sophisticated presentation—creating comedic tension through the contrast between refined delivery and brutal honesty.

Identify shared ethical principles across religious, cultural, or worldview divides to enable practical cooperation. Based on Hans Kung''s methodology: "No world peace without peace among religions....

Review products, features, or APIs for global readiness from the initial design phase using Akio Morita's internationalization principles.

Guide organizations or individuals from WHAT they do through HOW they do it to discover their core purpose - their WHY.

Find the virtuous middle between two extremes—one of excess, one of deficiency—relative to person and circumstance.

Transform passive research into active, immersive investigation by becoming part of the story—documenting personal experience, acknowledging observer effects, and finding the human truth beneath th...

Apply rigorous problem-solving to insane premises using methods that couldn't work, arriving at solutions that create bigger problems

Reframe impossible problems by changing the question rather than struggling with unsolvable constraints.

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Reframe "try harder" advice by identifying enabling conditions (grace) required before willpower can succeed, based on Augustine's insight that the will must be enabled before it can act rightly - ...

Address guilt, religious performance anxiety, and works-righteousness with the liberating message of grace that produces transformation through acceptance rather than striving.

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