Claude Skills by sethmblack

Embody Lao Tzu - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Larry Page - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Larry Wilmore - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Apply Charlie Munger's latticework of mental models to analyze complex problems through multiple disciplinary lenses.

A skill for designing actions where humor delivers serious critique and targets indict themselves through their own responses.

Analyze a situation, challenge, or domain using Robert Greene's law formulation methodology, producing numbered laws with historical case studies, keys to power, and reversals.

Structure a roast like a legal argument: state the accusation, present evidence, anticipate and dismantle defenses, then deliver the verdict. Use legal/logical frameworks to create longer-form roas...

Diagnose whether an organization is seeking magic solutions (silver bullets) vs. doing the hard work of product improvement (lead bullets), and prescribe the appropriate competitive response.

Build trust and inspire extraordinary effort through visible personal commitment and shared risk.

A skill for designing actions and movements that require no central command, hierarchy, or formal organization - enabling collective action without coordination.

Evaluate whether a leader possesses the three non-negotiable traits (clarity of thinking, work ethic, effectiveness) and identify "hot mess" warning signs that disqualify leadership.

Continue effective leadership despite personal setbacks, disability, or wounds. Transform adversity from excuse into credential.

Assess current career stance using Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In framework to identify where someone is holding back and provide actionable recommendations for leaning in.

Guide someone toward making a trans-rational leap when reason has reached its limit—helping them see that some commitments cannot be analyzed into, only jumped into.

Embody Lee Kuan Yew - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Transform adversarial proceedings into performance art. Use formal processes, hearings, trials, or institutional confrontations as stages where the prosecution itself becomes the performance and op...

Embody Lenny Bruce - the comedian who turned obscenity trials into performance art and died for free speech, proving that the words they want to silence are exactly the words that need saying.

Embody Leo Tolstoy - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Leonardo Da Vinci - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Leslie Nielsen - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Create a "Grasping Inventory" to identify what you're holding onto and find freedom through release.

Assess leadership against Jim Collins' research-based five-level hierarchy, identifying current level, specific gaps, and development path toward Level 5 leadership.

Analyze how someone is (or isn''t) applying leverage to their work, following Naval Ravikant''s framework of the three types of leverage: labor, capital, and code/media.

Identify high-leverage interventions in complex systems—where small investments create disproportionate impact.

Design or evaluate educational and formation approaches using John Henry Newman's philosophy of liberal education, which cultivates the whole person and develops intellectual habit rather than mere...

Assess whether a design, process, or system constrains or liberates its users. Based on Coco Chanel's revolution of freeing women from corsets and enabling them to breathe, move, and live.

Plan escape from constraining circumstances using Harriet Tubman's comprehensive "Never Lost a Passenger" methodology.

Apply Mill's arguments from *On Liberty* to defend freedom of expression even for opinions that seem clearly wrong, offensive, or dangerous—showing that suppression harms truth more than it protect...

Evaluate any value, action, or belief by whether it enhances life, power, and growth - or diminishes, weakens, and promotes decay.

Shift perspective from asking what you want from life to discovering what life is asking of you. Viktor Frankl's Copernican revolution in meaning-making.

Distinguish between "experiments of light" (investigations that illuminate causes and build understanding) and "experiments of fruit" (investigations that produce useful results). Ensures understan...

Use extraordinary speed to arrive before the enemy expects, creating decisive advantage through the reputation for impossible swiftness. Veni, vidi, vici - as a single continuous motion.

Audit prose for weak word choices, unnecessary adjectives, and imprecise language, then sharpen to maximum impact. Based on Twain''s principle: "The difference between the almost right word and the ...

Create relatable perspectives and characters that serve as audience surrogates—fundamentally decent, slightly put-upon, trying their best in difficult circumstances without pretension or false expe...

Evaluate any action, ideology, or movement against Camus's ethic of limits - determining whether revolt maintains its humanity or has crossed into the tyranny it opposed.

Evaluate ideas, technologies, practices, books, or investments based on their survival time to predict future robustness and inform decisions.

Transform content that uses linear thinking patterns into exponential framing, applying Ray Kurzweil's perspective on technology forecasting.

Determine appropriate cash reserves to maintain, balancing opportunity cost against crisis preparedness and the ability to act decisively when others cannot.

A comedic writing technique for building sequences that start with recognizable observations and escalate systematically toward absurdity, culminating in a truth that lands harder for being funny.

Transform idioms, expressions, and instructions by taking them at absolute face value to expose their hidden absurdities. This skill embodies Mitch Hedberg's technique of treating figurative langua...

A skill for identifying and refusing the small ritual capitulations that sustain unjust systems - the everyday lies whose accumulation creates the atmosphere of oppression.

Explain LLM architecture decisions and behaviors using the "operating system" mental model - connecting context windows to RAM, model weights to the kernel, prompts to programs.

Apply Yann LeCun's framework to systematically assess whether AI/LLM capability claims match fundamental architectural realities. Cut through hype by checking claims against what current systems ca...

Follow real-world policies or situations to their absurd but inevitable conclusions, exposing flawed premises through rigorous logic

Decompose complex statements into their logical components to determine whether they are meaningful, true, false, or confused.

Apply rigorous logic to absurd premises, creating comedy through contrast between flawless methodology and impossible foundations

Sustain meaningful connection, mutual influence, and effective collaboration with partners, colleagues, or family members across physical distance—using the methods Abigail Adams employed during ne...

Build and communicate a compelling case for long-term investments when facing short-term pressure from investors, analysts, or boards.

Plan across decades, not quarters or election cycles. Consider second and third-order consequences. Build institutions and foundations that outlast individuals. Accept short-term costs for long-ter...

Evaluate whether a design, decision, or approach will endure or is merely following current fashion. Based on Dieter Rams'' principle: "Good design is long-lasting. It avoids being fashionable and t...