Claude Skills by sethmblack

A structured approach to generating creative breakthroughs by combining imaginative exploration with existing knowledge through "combinatory play.

Convey theological truth through story, image, and "supposal" rather than bare argument - baptizing the imagination so that truth is felt before it is formulated.

Evaluate whether a system exhibits intelligent behavior by defining operational criteria and testing against them - cutting through philosophical speculation to practical assessment.

Embody Immanuel Kant - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Apply outsider perspective to find comedy in things locals take for granted, making the familiar strange and funny

Embody Imogene Coca - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Evaluate the ethics of an action or decision by asking what a fair, fully-informed observer would approve.

When competitors or obstacles guard all conventional paths, find the route they consider impossible—the one that is harder but undefended.

Test any abstract idea, concept, or term for legitimate content by tracing it back to the sense impressions from which it derives. Identifies empty concepts that are mere words without experiential...

Convert remote rejections into opportunities through strategic physical presence using Sara Blakely's "Lobby Sit" methodology.

Apply Munger's fundamental insight—"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome"—to understand and predict behavior.

Reveal how well-intentioned policies create perverse incentives that produce the opposite of their intended effects.

Framework for pursuing "better" through small, consistent changes rather than waiting for breakthrough solutions. Based on Atul Gawande's philosophy from "Better.

Analyze a situation to identify where adults are over-helping, creating dependency rather than capability, and recommend how to step back.

Shift from aggregate/category thinking to individual-level analysis, revealing what statistics and generalizations obscure. Names, not numbers. Persons, not populations.

Embody Indra Nooyi - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Evaluate proposed road expansion projects through the lens of induced demand. Explain why adding capacity won't solve congestion.

Systematically examine any inference from observed data to unobserved cases. Identifies the uniformity assumptions being made, surfaces distributional shift risks, and forces acknowledgment of indu...

Diagnose whether an individual or organization is applying finite thinking to an infinite game and recommend mindset shifts for long-term success.

Persuade stakeholders, peers, or cross-functional partners to adopt your proposal when you lack direct authority, using Dale Carnegie's principles of genuine interest, letting them own the idea, an...

Analyze how physical infrastructure encodes political choices, benefits specific groups, and shapes communities for generations. Based on Robert Moses's use of highways, bridges, and parks as instr...

Embody Ingvar Kamprad - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Casually integrate mental health and therapy concepts (boundaries, catastrophic thinking, anxious attachment, bipolar disorder) into content as normal vocabulary rather than clinical jargon or heav...

Apply Jim Gaffigan's signature inner voice technique to add self-aware, whispered commentary that catches claims, rationalizations, and contradictions.

Systematically identify innovation opportunities using Drucker's seven sources framework—moving innovation from luck to disciplined search.

Design and audit resource allocation across core business, adjacent opportunities, and transformational moonshots using the 70-20-10 framework.

A skill for structuring the exposure of a media hoax for maximum educational impact - transforming deception into media literacy.

Navigate the insider succession path to executive leadership through strategic role selection, cross-functional experience building, and ownership mindset.

A skill for mastering the language, visual identity, and procedures of target institutions to enable convincing impersonation or critique.

A skill for explaining behavior through structural incentives rather than individual intentions - understanding why institutions do what they do.

A methodology for critique and change that uses a system's own mechanisms, rules, and logic against itself. Instead of fighting institutions from outside, you complete their logic to the point of a...

Evaluate whether organizational structures serve or obstruct their stated purposes, and design reform that preserves essential continuity while enabling necessary change. Based on Hans Kung's princ...

Expose inherent ridiculousness in bureaucracies and institutions through satirical examination of their processes and self-justifications

A multi-dimensional framework for analyzing environmental and sustainability decisions through the interconnected lens of ecological, economic, social, cultural, and spiritual dimensions - hearing ...

A framework for understanding and practicing the comprehensive transformation of consciousness through Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga methodology.

Analyze whether an organization should stay integrated or be broken up, based on customer value rather than internal efficiency arguments.

Take a basic insult and elevate it with unexpected intelligence - literary references, psychological terminology, historical parallels, scientific observations, or legal frameworks. Transform hack ...

Systematically gather intelligence before major decisions. Map what is known, unknown, and must be learned before action.

Assess spiritual location using Teresa of Ávila's seven mansions framework. Identify current stage, appropriate practices, and guidance for the journey.

Document and evaluate internal reporting attempts before external disclosure, establishing good faith and demonstrating futility of internal channels.

Develop internalized judgment so that external validation becomes unnecessary--the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Transform interviews from interrogations into jazz sessions - following energy, building together, creating emergent conversations

A methodology for maintaining autonomy and mystery in interrogative situations through strategic non-answers that reveal more than direct responses would.

Estimate the fundamental worth of a security using Benjamin Graham's analytical framework, independent of market price.

Apply Charlie Munger's inversion thinking to identify failure modes and systematically avoid them.

Take an opponent's flawed premise (especially discriminatory or absurd assumptions) and flip it to expose its ridiculousness through comedic or rhetorical reversal.

Evaluate whether an action constitutes true investment or speculation using Benjamin Graham's rigorous definition.

Embody Iris Murdoch - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

A rhetorical technique that compliments a target into absurdity, using apparent admiration to expose flaws. The praise is so excessive, so perfectly aligned with the target's self-image, that it be...

Transform direct statements into ironic observations that say one thing while meaning another, creating engagement, sophistication, and double-edged wit.