Claude Skills by sethmblack

Build jokes where setup establishes expectation, punchline subverts with worse outcome using three-part structure: establish normal → imply hope → deliver worse.

Embody Mitch Hedberg - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Apply proportioned skepticism—fierce enough to challenge dogma, gentle enough to preserve practical life. Calibrates doubt to evidence strength while maintaining actionability.

Evaluate how the separation or combination of uses (residential, commercial, industrial, civic) affects street life and neighborhood vitality. Based on Jane Jacobs''s first generator of diversity: m...

Embody Miyamoto Musashi - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Scope and validate an ML project before committing resources to ensure feasibility and business value. "I've seen more companies fail by starting too big than by starting too small.

Evaluate any street, corridor, or transportation project against Enrique Penalosa's mobility hierarchy to reveal car-centric bias.

Transform narrative into documentary-style format with talking heads, camera awareness, and gaps between self-perception and reality

Analyze who is modeling what behaviors to whom, and how observational learning is shaping behavior in a given context.

A skill for following cruel premises to their logical conclusions, exposing the horror of positions by taking them seriously.

Apply the four-pillar framework for maintaining personal and organizational integrity in ministry, leadership, or any public-facing role.

Determine whether a market or product category favors integrated or modular architectures, and predict architectural evolution for build-vs-buy and platform strategy decisions.

Apply Le Corbusier's Modulor proportional system to derive harmonious dimensions for architectural elements, furniture, interior spaces, or any design requiring human-scale proportions based on the golden ratio and human body measurements.

Find and articulate the luminous moments within ordinary experience where meaning becomes visible—the breaks in "cotton wool" when pattern reveals itself.

Trace macroeconomic phenomena (inflation, recessions, financial crises) back to monetary policy causes using the Friedman-Schwartz analytical framework.

Give voice to the created, the affected, or the "other" in any situation—articulating their experience, needs, and claims that are often overlooked by decision-makers.

Determine whether a proposed project qualifies as a true moonshot by testing against three required components: huge problem, radical solution, and enabling technology.

Navigate decisions where all available options involve moral compromise - accepting responsibility for imperfect choices while acting decisively in situations where moral purity is impossible.

Develop the argument from universal moral experience to its metaphysical implications - showing that the sense of "ought" points beyond nature to its source.

Identify the cognitive mechanisms that allow individuals or groups to act against their moral standards without experiencing guilt or self-condemnation.

Diagnose whether a person, organization, or practice is living/operating authentically or artificially, using Leo Tolstoy's framework from *The Death of Ivan Ilyich*.

A skill for refusing to outsource responsibility to systems, circumstances, history, or authority - insisting that individual moral agency cannot be delegated.

Transform technical recommendations into morally urgent calls to action using Martin Luther King Jr.'s prophetic rhetoric framework.

Assess the quality of moral vision regarding a situation, revealing what clearer, more loving seeing might show.

Systematically reorganize chaotic, fragmented, or failing operations into stable, rational structures through consolidation, governance, and decisive management.

Pre-visualize potential difficulties before they occur to build resilience, reduce anxiety, and prepare appropriate responses.

Embody Mort Sahl - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Mother Teresa - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Uncover the layered motivations driving a person's behavior using Shakespeare's three-level psychological framework.

Transform any perceived slight, criticism, doubt, or challenge into sustainable fuel for elite performance using Michael Jordan's "And I Took That Personally" methodology.

Apply Benjamin Graham's iconic Mr. Market metaphor to understand market behavior, identify emotional extremes, and find opportunities in irrationality.

Transform narrative description into fully embodied multi-character scenes where each person's voice, internal logic, and perspective is inhabited completely. Based on Richard Pryor's technique of ...

Design a comprehensive learning program on any topic using Gates's approach of reading multiple sources to triangulate truth and understand disagreement.

Assess when and how to expand into adjacent verticals while maintaining core business health, using the "Spotify Machine" approach of building multiple verticals that work together.

Create comedy scripts that integrate visual elements (graphics, data displays, video clips) with specific cue markers for when and how to display supporting visuals—based on Hasan Minhaj's *Patriot...

Maintain distinct psychological, vocal, and physical integrity for multiple characters without cross-contamination

Embody radically different characters with complete psychological compartmentalization, enabling multiple distinct perspectives

Take a trivial modern inconvenience and escalate it to reveal disproportionate rage or existential despair, then loop back to highlight the absurdity of the reaction and expose privilege blindness.

Transform ordinary situations—errands, conversations, minor frustrations—into high-stakes drama through tone, structure, and framing, revealing absurdity through the mismatch between content and de...

Transform written, formal, or stilted dialogue into authentic, flowing conversation that sounds like real people talking.

Transform technical content through musical metaphor and performance structure, making difficult subjects accessible

Add musical elements (rhythm, rhyme, melodic structure) to prose content, transforming it into song-worthy or rhythmically engaging material in the Eric Idle musical comedy tradition.

Create songs or musical content where the musical form (melody, rhythm, genre) deliberately contradicts or undercuts the lyrical/thematic content, using catchiness as a delivery mechanism for diffi...

Transform apparent dependency into partnership by identifying and presenting mutual benefits, even when negotiating from a weaker position.

Transform mundane or overwhelming situations into their archetypal dimensions—revealing the mythic structure within everyday experience and connecting individual struggles to the universal human st...

Build rapid professional rapport using Dale Carnegie's Six Ways to Make People Like You—genuine interest, names, listening, and making others feel important.

Make abstract concepts tangible through physical demonstrations, analogies, and artifacts that people can see, touch, and remember.

Embody Napoleon Bonaparte - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Shape how events are understood before others can frame them. Write your own history before your enemies write it for you.

Embody Nassim Taleb - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills