Claude Skills by sethmblack

Transform adversarial relationships into partnerships through understanding, symbolic action, and principled flexibility.

Translate twelve-step recovery principles to non-addiction life challenges using powerlessness, inventory, amends, and service

Restore astonishment at ordinary things. Based on G.K. Chesterton's philosophy that the world has not become less wonderful - we have merely become too jaded to notice.

Diagnose disorder by identifying where names (roles, labels, titles, words) do not match reality, and prescribe alignment. When names are correct, right action follows; when names are confused, cha...

Assess how radical ideas, movements, or critiques have been (or will be) absorbed and commodified by the system.

Create self-contradicting logical loops that circle back to contradict their own premises, resolving through even greater absurdity

Apply Bo Burnham's signature technique of recursive meta-commentary to create multiple simultaneous layers of awareness that don't resolve into simple irony or sincerity.

Embody Red Skelton - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Redd Foxx - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Systematically identify and eliminate unnecessary elements from any artifact until nothing remains that could be removed without impairing function. Based on Dieter Rams'' principle: "Less, but bett...

Embody Reed Hastings - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Predict outcomes by taking the "outside view" - identifying similar past cases, obtaining their statistical distribution of outcomes, and positioning the current case within that distribution.

Design church polity using Presbyterian principles: plurality of qualified elders, distinction of offices by function, representative governance, and proper relationship between church and civil au...

Embody Reggie Watts - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Compare alternative growth patterns using Peter Calthorpe's three ecologies framework to evaluate environmental, social, and economic outcomes. Project VMT, carbon emissions, infrastructure costs, and land consumption for competing scenarios.

Evaluate major life and career decisions by projecting to age 80 and minimizing lifetime regrets about inaction. This is the framework Jeff Bezos used to decide to leave D.E. Shaw and start Amazon.

Plan worship according to the regulative principle: include only what Scripture commands or what can be legitimately deduced from Scripture. Prioritize Word-centeredness, simplicity, and congregati...

Embody Reinhold Niebuhr - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Systematically reinvent creative practice when current approach has become comfortable, successful, or recognized—before stagnation sets in.

Audit relationship communication patterns to identify where comfortable lies are being maintained instead of hard truths, then provide framework for radical honesty. Based on Patrice O'Neal's "Blac...

Evaluate whether a product, service, or content is remarkable enough to spread through word-of-mouth, based on Seth Godin's Purple Cow methodology.

Systematically identify overlooked voices, excluded stakeholders, and absent perspectives in any decision, policy, or plan—and advocate for their inclusion. Named for Abigail Adams's historic appea...

Access and articulate trauma, inherited memory, and cyclical experience in ways that honor their non-linear, embodied nature—using Toni Morrison's concept of "rememory.

Embody Rene Descartes - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Take a core observation and circle back to it multiple times with new angles, examples, and variations using Chris Rock's "tell them what you'll say, say it, tell them what you said" comedic struct...

Explain how neural networks learn hierarchical representations, grounding abstract concepts in biological intuition using Geoffrey Hinton's explanatory framework.

Build and deploy reputation as a strategic asset that works while you rest. Let your reputation precede you like a shadow.

Build organizational resilience and character through intentional embrace of difficulty, creating a culture where setbacks forge strength rather than defeat.

Diagnose cognitive distortions after setback using Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant's Three Ps framework (Personalization, Pervasiveness, Permanence) and provide specific cognitive reframes for faste...

Transform catastrophic setbacks into strategic education, identify new allies and approaches, and systematically plan a return.

Analyze opposition to change to understand what is being protected, what anxiety the change activates, and how to work productively with (not against) resistance.

Expose institutional absurdity through sincere engagement rather than mockery, revealing dysfunction while preserving individual dignity

Evaluate whether a capability increase is appropriately coupled with safety investments using Dario Amodei's Responsible Scaling Policy methodology.

Diagnose whether a belief, action, or emotional state springs from ressentiment - the poisonous reactive state of those who cannot discharge their feelings against those with power over them.

Write theory that reveals the hidden intentions, latent logic, and unnamed programs in what already exists.

Create conditions where subjects feel safe enough to reveal what they actually believe by positioning yourself as non-threatening and lower status.

Understand complex systems by systematically dissecting them layer by layer. Apply Leonardo da Vinci''s anatomical methodology: sequential views, exploded diagrams, and progressive exposure of inter...

Classify decisions by how reversible they are, then prescribe the appropriate level of deliberation. Prevent over-analysis of reversible decisions and ensure irreversible decisions receive proper s...

Challenge conventional historical narratives by revealing bias, propaganda, and misunderstood perspectives—usually showing that "barbarians" were more sophisticated than their conquerors (inspired ...

Craft communications that connect individual effort to historical significance, making people feel they are building legacy rather than merely working.

Design comprehensive rezoning strategies that use zoning as a transformation tool - not merely regulation but a mechanism for creating new neighborhoods.

Build a series of rhetorical questions that progressively expose absurdity, each answer leading to a more revealing follow-up question, creating intellectual momentum.

Evaluate and improve persuasive communication through the three modes of persuasion: ethos (credibility), pathos (emotion), and logos (logic).

Embody Richard Branson - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Richard Dawkins - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Richard Feynman - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Richard Pryor - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Rick Rubin - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Ricky Gervais - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Guide someone through getting back up after a setback using Brene Brown's three-stage Reckoning-Rumble-Revolution framework, with special attention to the SFD (story we make up) and writing a new e...