Claude Skills by sethmblack

Embody Alan Watts - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Albert Bandura - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Albert Camus - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Albert Einstein - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Alexander Hamilton - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Alexander The Great - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Alfred Hitchcock - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Break complex problems into fundamental operations, identifying recursive structures, base cases, and step-by-step computational approaches - just as Ada Lovelace decomposed the Bernoulli number ca...

Embody Ali Wong - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Rapidly assess whether a team or organization is aligned around a common vision, strategy, and understanding of roles through a structured diagnostic protocol.

Assess the safety and alignment implications of AI developments using Ilya Sutskever's alignment-first methodology. Reason backward from superintelligence to determine present priorities and safety...

Offer hope that acknowledges present suffering while pointing to ultimate redemption, based on Julian of Norwich's conviction that love has the final word. This is eschatological hope—not denial of...

Evaluate whether a business unit or project has grown different enough from the core to warrant structural independence with its own CEO and culture.

Create productive uncertainty that sustains long-term engagement by planting contradictory evidence, refusing resolution, and making "solving it" impossible while keeping audiences invested in inve...

Embody Amelia Earhart - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Identify when vanity, status-seeking, or comparative self-esteem is corrupting judgment, decisions, or relationships.

Embody Amy Poehler - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Smash incompatible time periods together to expose how power structures persist across eras. Medieval meets 1980s. Victorian plumbing entangles dystopian technology. Past and future collapse into a...

Use a familiar, observable process to explain and build acceptance for an unfamiliar or counterintuitive one. Bridge the gap between the known and the unknown through carefully constructed analogies.

Provide a framework for speaking meaningfully about transcendent realities (especially God) by distinguishing univocal, equivocal, and analogical predication. This enables meaningful theological la...

Create powerful analogies that illuminate abstract concepts through familiar experiences.

Decompose complex problems into their simplest components, solve each part in order from simple to complex, then reconstruct the whole systematically to ensure completeness.

A structured reasoning meditation for understanding the nature of phenomena as empty of inherent existence and arising through dependent origination. Based on the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) tradition ...

Audit a references.md file to verify that all cited URLs are real, accessible, and actually support the claims attributed to them.

Ground present decisions and creative work in ancestral wisdom, connecting to the knowledge of those who came before—using Toni Morrison's concept of the Ancestor Figure.

Embody Andrej Karpathy - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Andrew Carnegie - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Andrew Ng - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Andy Grove - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Andy Kaufman - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Analyze the roots of anger and apply Seneca's comprehensive approach to prevention and treatment.

Identify unexpected observations (anomalies) and use them as launching points for deeper investigation—the methodology that led Marie Curie to discover polonium and radium.

A skill for using collective identity as protection and force multiplication - being everyone and no one simultaneously.

Embody Anonymous - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Anthony Bourdain - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Anthony Jeselnik - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Design institutions that make corruption difficult, detectable, and costly. Create independent enforcement mechanisms. Pay adequately to remove temptation. Apply rules consistently at all levels, e...

Systematically challenge the assumption that right angles and rectangular grids are the default organizing principle. Apply Zaha Hadid's "360 degrees" philosophy to liberate design from unexamined ...

A methodology for identifying and dismantling pretension in writing, thinking, and discourse. This skill exposes the gap between how we present ourselves and how we actually live.

Evaluate whether a conclusion is an "anticipation of nature" (a hasty generalization from insufficient evidence) or a proper "interpretation of nature" (a conclusion methodically induced through sy...

Assess any system, decision, career, business, or investment across the Fragile-Robust-Antifragile spectrum and prescribe structural changes to move toward antifragility.

Reframe existential anxiety as the disclosure of freedom rather than pathology—helping someone understand that their anxiety reveals the choices they face and the freedom they possess.

Guide understanding through systematic negation—approaching truth by saying what something is *not*, rather than what it is. Based on Meister Eckhart's teaching that the deepest truths cannot be ca...

Work productively within states of puzzlement, confusion, or impasse—transforming what feels like failure into fertile ground for genuine understanding.

Transform generic positive or light content by starting with a relatable premise, then pivoting sharply into darker, more honest territory that creates uncomfortable-but-recognizing laughter.

Identify and expose the contradictions specific to millennial/Gen-Z behavior—highlighting how the generation is simultaneously progressive and anxious, politically engaged and emotionally avoidant,...

Identify which archetypal patterns are active in a person's life, relationships, or situation—revealing the deeper story being lived.

Compare autoregressive/generative approaches (GPT-style) with predictive/JEPA approaches using Yann LeCun's framework. Help make informed architecture decisions for AI system design.

Embody Aristotle - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Analyze competitive dynamics where adaptations on one side drive counter-adaptations on the other, creating escalation cycles. Predict trajectories using the life-dinner and rare-enemy principles.