Claude Skills by sethmblack

Design a bus-based transit system that delivers metro-quality service at a fraction of the cost by applying subway principles to surface streets.

Embody Buckminster Fuller - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Transform safe, mild observations into explosive truths using Chris Rock's signature escalation structure.

Construct controlled rants using Bill Burr''s signature build-and-explode pattern: start with mundane observation, layer revealing details, then detonate into fury at precisely the right moment.

Identify and call out pretension, inauthenticity, and empty sophistication in any domain—distinguishing genuine quality from performance.

Facilitate rapid identification and elimination of bureaucratic waste through structured team sessions with real-time decision-making. Based on Jack Welch''s Work-Out methodology: "Get a bunch of pe...

Identify and eliminate organizational complexity that impedes action, replacing prescriptive policies with principles that empower managers to lead.

Expose bureaucratic ridiculousness using the Ministry of Silly Walks pattern: maintain completely serious tone and formal language while revealing increasingly absurd details about processes, commi...

Transform mundane administrative processes into Kafka-meets-Bosch nightmares where paperwork becomes physical, architectural, and consuming. Render systems as spatial horror.

Decode and explain how bureaucratic systems operate to frustrate, obstruct, and perpetuate themselves—using frameworks from *The Trial* and *The Castle* to illuminate the logic beneath the apparent...

Design and implement a weekly Business Plan Review (BPR) meeting structure with color-coded status reporting, consistent format, and clear rules for team alignment.

Embody Buster Keaton - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Evaluate whether a bold move is warranted vs. a conventional approach, balancing risk with potential reward.

Systematically evaluate whether a goal justifies its risks, then commit fully or walk away—eliminating the wasteful middle ground of worry.

When disputes persist due to imprecise language, decompose concepts into precise elements and make reasoning explicit and calculable. *Calculemus!* - "Let us calculate!" Leibniz dreamed of reducing...

Transform flat, linear narratives into architecturally structured stories by strategically planting specific details in the opening that return later with compounding payoff.

Identify callback opportunities in content and engineer both the plant (early setup) and payoff (later callback) to create narrative coherence and reward audience attention.

Plant narrative seeds early in content, then pay them off later in unexpected ways to create the sense that everything connects—useful for speeches, essays, comedy sets, or any long-form narrative.

Create interconnected jokes that reference earlier material, building compound destruction and thematic cohesion across an extended comedy set. Transform isolated jokes into sophisticated networks ...

Create confessional intimacy with audience by using conversational gateway phrases to shift from performer to confidante before delivering uncomfortable truths. Based on Joan Rivers' signature tech...

Diagnose an organization''s candor deficit and provide a roadmap for building a culture of honest feedback and transparent communication. Based on Jack Welch''s principle: "Lack of candor is the bigg...

Precisely define what a system, technology, or approach can and cannot do - distinguishing actual capabilities from aspirational claims, execution from origination, as Ada Lovelace did when assessi...

Design a progressive capability roadmap where each milestone enables the next. Intelligence research is not a random walk but a deliberate progression - each solved problem creates capabilities nee...

Analyze any technical content through Dario Amodei''s five-lens methodology: capability-safety tradeoffs, empirical grounding, constitutional principles, scaling implications, and institutional cont...

Map the mutually reinforcing capabilities required to win and identify gaps between current state and strategic requirements.

Map non-linear career options and evaluate lateral moves using Sheryl Sandberg's jungle gym framework, replacing the outdated ladder metaphor with strategic exploration.

Embody Carl Jung - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Carl Reiner - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Carl Rogers - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Carl Sagan - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Carl Von Clausewitz - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Transform disasters, collapses, and endings into spectacular visual festivals. Make destruction baroque, excessive, strangely joyful. Death becomes a celebration of chaos.

Embody Carol Burnett - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Create interviews that balance genuine curiosity with entertainment value using Carson''s four-phase framework: Story → Angle → Setup → Exit.

Build comedy sequences with momentum using Carson''s four-phase architecture: Opening → Body → Callback → Button.

Transform failed material into unexpected comedy by acknowledging failure and making the recovery funnier than the original joke would have been.

Transform abstract principles into compelling narratives by grounding them in specific human cases. Based on Atul Gawande's methodology as a New Yorker staff writer.

Evaluate any idea, concept, theory, or dispute by translating it into experiential consequences, revealing whether debates are substantive or merely verbal.

Take a simple premise and escalate it to absurd conclusions while maintaining conversational, matter-of-fact tone throughout.

Embody Catherine Ohara - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Construct a directed acyclic graph (DAG) representing the causal structure of a problem before any data analysis. The diagram makes assumptions explicit and determines what questions can be answered.

Apply Yoshua Bengio's framework for distinguishing causal from correlational reasoning, assessing whether a system or approach can generalize beyond its training distribution.

Systematically analyze any causal claim to distinguish genuine causation from mere correlation, habitual association, or projected necessity. Applies Hume's criteria (contiguity, priority, constant...

Identify what someone is avoiding and reveal how that avoidance blocks their treasure—then guide them toward the necessary confrontation.

Identify the centers that give a structure its life, map how they strengthen or weaken each other, and diagnose where center relationships need transformation.

**Expert Origin:** Carl von Clausewitz **Skill Type:** Strategic Analysis Framework **Trigger:** "What should we focus on?" / "We''re spread too thin" / "Where is the decisive point?

When facing multiple competitors or threats, identify how to position yourself to defeat each in sequence rather than facing all simultaneously.

Develop a personal library of self-talk phrases that build mental strength, regulate emotions, and sustain championship-level performance.

A methodology for using randomization to bypass ego and unlock possibilities that intention would filter out.

Analyze any communication system—human or technical—to understand its fundamental limits and optimize within them. Based on Shannon's core insight that every channel has a maximum rate at which inf...