Claude Skills by sethmblack

Perceive and articulate the completed form within raw material, vague ideas, or unfinished work--then systematically remove what obscures it.

Audit a manager's or organization's effectiveness through Andy Grove's output-based management framework. Identify leverage points, eliminate bottlenecks, and transform managerial productivity from...

Design dense, layered information displays that respect the viewer's intelligence and visual processing capacity. Based on Edward Tufte's belief that "there is no such thing as information overload...

Guide leaders through consequential decisions under time pressure and uncertainty using Katharine Graham's methodology from the Pentagon Papers and Watergate.

Apply Mill's qualitative hedonism to evaluate options, outcomes, or experiences—distinguishing the higher pleasures that engage our distinctively human faculties from the lower pleasures of mere bo...

Embody Hildegard Of Bingen - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Research and construct vivid historical case studies to illustrate strategic principles, following Robert Greene's methodology of teaching through narrative.

A methodology for revealing how present conditions emerged from past processes, making visible the chains of cause and effect that comfortable narratives obscure. This skill connects current situat...

Identify historical precedents for contemporary phenomena to reveal what's genuinely new versus rebranded status anxiety, social control, or class performance.

Connect modern situations to medieval or ancient equivalents to reveal recurring human patterns and provide historical perspective (inspired by Terry Jones's method of viewing contemporary absurdit...

Connect current struggles to historical precedents to provide context, legitimacy, and hope.

A skill for revealing how individual passions and particular interests serve purposes beyond themselves in the progress of Spirit toward freedom.

Embody Ho Chi Minh - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

A skill for building the supporting elements - organizations, spokespeople, evidence - that make fictional stories credible to journalists.

Address any problem by integrating physical, spiritual, and relational dimensions, ensuring interventions work across all levels rather than treating symptoms in isolation.

Reframe experiences of emptiness, loss, or being "hollowed out" as preparation to carry something greater—becoming an instrument for divine or meaningful purpose.

Strip confirmation bias from analysis by forcing data to inform conclusions rather than support predetermined beliefs.

Deliver difficult feedback with directness and humanity, prioritizing the recipient's growth over their comfort.

Assess whether a design, product, or communication honestly represents its capabilities or manipulates through overpromise. Based on Dieter Rams'' principle: "Good design is honest. It does not make...

Embody Horatio Nelson - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Break audience passivity by deliberately withholding expected content and providing sincere alternatives—creating productive discomfort that reveals hidden dynamics and enables breakthroughs imposs...

Transform comfortable lies, euphemistic language, and corporate-speak into direct, uncomfortable truths. This skill strips away polite pretense to reveal what's actually being said or done.

Process emotional reactions constructively before responding. Write the angry response first, set it aside, then craft a measured reply. Based on Lincoln's practice of writing furious letters, fold...

Apply Jim Gaffigan's Hot Pockets Method to escalate observations about products, habits, or behaviors through structured exploration of cognitive dissonance.

Clarify the competitive advantage and value proposition that will cause customers to choose you over alternatives in your chosen playing field.

Embody Howard Schultz - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Hugh Laurie - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Evaluate decisions through the lens of human development. Are we building people or discarding them? Is investment in people seen as cost to minimize or foundation to strengthen? Transform cost-cen...

Connect universal principles to local, actionable contexts. Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's insight that human rights begin "in small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be se...

Evaluate whether an urban environment was designed for human speed (5 km/hour walking) or machine speed (60 km/hour driving), identifying specific mismatches that create hostile pedestrian experiences.

Embody Hunter S Thompson - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Analyze situations, institutions, or arguments to identify gaps between stated values and actual behavior. Based on Twain's satirical method of stripping away pretense to reveal the truth nobody wi...

Make contradictions between stated values and actual behavior impossible to ignore. Force institutions and individuals to publicly act out their hypocrisy until the gap between creed and deed becom...

Rigorously classify claims by their evidence level, distinguishing what has been demonstrated from what is hypothesized, applying Newton's "hypotheses non fingo" standard.

A meditation methodology based on the teachings of Nisargadatta Maharaj for establishing attention in the pure sense of being.

Embody Ian Goodfellow - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Ibn Arabi - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Transform explicit, telling prose into implicit, showing prose by strategically omitting what the writer knows while letting the reader feel it.

Design organizational decision-making systems where the best ideas win regardless of who they come from, using Ray Dalio''s formula: Radical Truth + Radical Transparency + Believability-Weighted Dec...

A skill for designing and executing institutional impersonation that reveals the gap between what organizations do and what they should do.

A methodology for maintaining autonomy through deliberate persona changes that prevent external definition and preserve creative freedom.

Expose how ideas that appear natural, inevitable, or neutral actually emerged from historical conditions and serve particular class interests. Denaturalize the given, historicize the eternal, revea...

Calculate the ratio of final cost to raw material cost to identify cost reduction opportunities and assess manufacturing efficiency.

Systematically identify which of Francis Bacon's Four Idols are obstructing clear thinking in a given situation. Surfaces hidden biases, language confusions, individual prejudices, and inherited do...

A structured spiritual approach to decision-making based on the 500-year Jesuit tradition of discernment, attending to interior movements of consolation and desolation to find God's will in concret...

Guide reasoning to certitude through accumulated probabilities when demonstrative proof is impossible. Help distinguish genuine doubt from mere difficulty, and enable confident action without requi...

Embody Ilya Sutskever - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Design a compelling visual action that forces media coverage of an issue without requiring budget or platform access.

Construct and control your public image as a strategic asset. Create a persona that transcends the personal, making opposition to you feel like opposition to something greater - an institution, an ...

A framework for working with the alam al-mithal (mundus imaginalis) - the intermediate world between pure spirit and pure matter - derived from Ibn Arabi's teachings as interpreted through the Sufi...