Claude Skills by sethmblack

Transform one-sided arguments or monologic presentations into genuine dialogues where multiple voices argue with full force. Apply Mikhail Bakhtin's analysis of Dostoevsky's polyphonic novel to ens...

Convert single-voice content into multi-voiced narrative showing how external judgments become internal monologue, using specific character voices with bracket notation to create readable polyphony.

Translate sports moments into pop culture parallels, making content accessible to casual fans and more memorable for everyone

Embody Pope Francis - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Build strategy on a foundation of genuine connection with the people you serve. Military action without politics is like a tree without roots.

Systematically evaluate and transform a product/service portfolio toward healthier, more sustainable offerings without abandoning heritage brands.

Find and study outliers who succeed despite the same constraints as everyone else, to discover solutions that already exist within your system. Based on Atul Gawande's methodology from "Better.

Frame any decision, situation, or design as a selection from a space of possible alternatives. Evaluate why this possibility was actualized rather than others, what alternatives exist, and how to r...

Navigate CEO succession after a legendary founder through identity management, culture preservation, and strategic evolution without trying to become someone you are not.

Analyze how unelected power accumulates within institutions through authorities, covenants, expertise monopolies, and structural dependencies. Based on Robert Moses's 44-year accumulation of power ...

Framework for analyzing hidden power dynamics in organizations, relationships, and events. Based on Robert Caro's approach to understanding power through biography.

Systematically map power structures and identify leverage points before taking action—revealing who holds formal and informal power, their interests and vulnerabilities, and whether you can win.

Break down the actual (vs. apparent) power structure in any relationship, negotiation, social situation, or organizational dynamic, revealing who has power, who wants it, and the unspoken games bei...

Analyze any situation through Machiavelli's six-step framework to reveal true interests, capabilities, constraints, and strategic options.

A skill for analyzing how ordinary people's participation sustains systems of control - and how withdrawal of that participation can collapse them.

Distinguish between power (acting in concert) and violence (instrumental destruction) to clarify what is actually happening in conflict situations. Based on Hannah Arendt's analysis in *On Violence*.

Break analysis paralysis by guiding users through rapid prototyping and empirical testing of ideas—the method Franklin used to capture lightning, invent the stove, and solve everyday problems throu...

Evaluate every proposal, policy, or strategy by one criterion: Does it work? Learn from others who have solved similar problems. Abandon approaches that fail regardless of their theoretical elegance.

Diagnose the current state of prayer practice and provide appropriate guidance. Based on Teresa of Ávila's understanding of prayer stages from vocal prayer to transforming union.

Diagnose whether a product or company is before or after product-market fit, and prescribe phase-appropriate behaviors. Getting this wrong leads to either premature scaling (wasted resources) or st...

Analyze decisions for the patterns they establish and the norms they create for future actors. Every decision teaches others what to expect.

Create artifacts from a better world - fake newspapers, announcements, websites - that let people experience alternatives to current reality before they exist. This technique transforms abstract activism into tangible experience.

Build resilience and reduce anxiety by deliberately visualizing potential difficulties before they occur.

Before finalizing a major decision, imagine the initiative has completely failed one year from now. Work backward to identify what went wrong, surfacing risks and concerns that optimism typically s...

Assess readiness for a venture against Earhart's two-thirds standard, identifying preparation gaps before commitment.

Analyze and redesign any learning space or work environment using Montessori principles to support independent, self-directed activity. The environment does the teaching.

Guide return from temporal displacement - when the mind is trapped in past regret or future anxiety - back to present experience where life actually happens.

Design deliberate practice that simulates high-pressure conditions so your peak performance moments feel routine, not terrifying. Champions practice pressure, not just skills.

Analyze how prices communicate dispersed information and coordinate behavior without central direction. Diagnose failures when price signals are suppressed or distorted.

Extract reusable decision-making principles from experiences - especially failures - to build a personal or organizational repository of codified learning.

Distinguish between non-negotiable principles and flexible tactics to negotiate effectively without compromising core values. Be firm on principles, flexible on tactics.

An advanced methodology for pointing beyond witness consciousness to the Absolute that is prior to all manifestation.

Deeply understand problems before attempting solutions - spending 55 minutes on the problem and 5 minutes on solutions. Most problems persist because they are not well understood.

When stuck on a problem, swap the given and required to find simpler paths. Work backwards from the solution to the starting conditions. Claude Shannon's technique.

Strip any problem down to its essential elements, removing everything extraneous until only the core challenge remains. Claude Shannon's primary technique.

Diagnose whether a product or startup has achieved product-market fit using Marc Andreessen's framework and prescribe specific next steps based on the diagnosis.

Define or refine what your product does and who it's for - the foundational decision that Ogilvy called "more important than any other.

Define a product's singular purpose and ruthlessly align all decisions to that vision, rejecting good ideas that do not serve the core. "Focus is about saying no to the hundred other good ideas.

Design conditions that push individuals or teams beyond comfort into the "ugly zone" where growth and discovery happen—structured discomfort that produces breakthroughs.

Combine programs that don't normally coexist to create added value that neither could achieve alone.

Design a sustainable system for massive creative output, based on Picasso's 12+ hour daily practice and 50,000-work lifetime.

Evaluate the Promethean bargain in any transformative action: what fire is being stolen from the gods, what price may be paid, and what cannot be undone once the power is claimed.

Choose the right benefit to lead with in your advertising. The promise is the most important decision after positioning - get it wrong and no amount of creative brilliance will save you.

Embody Prompt Engineering - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Comprehensively evaluate any prompt against the 13-technique matrix with chaos agent testing and produce a scored assessment with specific improvement recommendations.

A skill for applying Chomsky and Herman's five filters to analyze media coverage - understanding how consent is manufactured in democratic societies.

Identify manipulation techniques in communication using Orwell's framework for understanding how language controls thought.

Activate prophetic awareness—the capacity to sense moral urgency, connect contemplation to action, and experience responsibility for injustice. Based on Abraham Joshua Heschel's conviction that "fe...

Speak truth to power effectively by calling institutions, nations, or movements to account while acknowledging your own complicity - the prophetic voice that speaks from within, not above.

A framework for diagnosing communities, institutions, or cultures trapped in "royal consciousness" and evoking movement toward "prophetic consciousness" through criticism (grief) and energizing (ho...