Claude Skills by sethmblack

Embody Saul Alinsky - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

A skill for channeling fury into controlled, surgical prose that devastates through restraint rather than explosion.

Write about any subject with unflinching honesty that forces readers to confront uncomfortable realities—naming what others avoid, exposing systemic failures, and refusing to offer false comfort.

Analyze and improve any persuasive communication using Winston Churchill's six-element framework from his 1897 essay, which guided sixty years of legendary oratory.

Choose between approaches based on their ability to scale, transform, and transmit effectively—applying Tesla's insight about why AC defeated DC.

A skill for transforming individual stories into monumental installations and expressions that prevent dismissal through overwhelming presence.

Evaluate AI architectures, model choices, or technical approaches using Ilya Sutskever's scale hypothesis framework. Predict capability trajectories based on empirical scaling patterns.

Audit organizational processes, structures, and culture for scalability. Identify what will break at 10x current size and design systems that scale.

Technique for transforming summary writing into dramatized scenes with narrative power. Based on Robert Caro's approach to making history read like a novel.

Analyze the reinforcement schedule currently operating and diagnose how it explains behavior patterns, then recommend schedule modifications for desired patterns.

Present meticulously researched facts with cheeky asides that humanize historical absurdity—combining rigorous scholarship with playful deflation of pomposity (inspired by Terry Jones's presentatio...

Provide a systematic approach to intellectual inquiry that structures questions, presents objections honestly, provides authoritative grounding, articulates a reasoned position, and replies to each...

Detect self-deception and cargo cult thinking using Feynman's principles of intellectual integrity.

Evaluate whether information is legitimately classified or merely embarrassment-protected, assessing the true purpose behind secrecy.

A universal approach to ethical decision-making based on shared human experience rather than religious doctrine. Accessible to believers and non-believers alike.

A MacKenzie Scott methodology for identifying opportunities where stepping back and ceding control will produce better outcomes than maintaining oversight.

Apply Covey's Habit 5 framework to diagnose listening levels, shift from autobiographical responses to empathic understanding, and earn the right to be understood.

Dissolve despair about finding love, purpose, or meaning by revealing that the longing itself is connection—what you seek is already seeking you.

Maintain flat, emotionally neutral delivery while escalating observations to dark or absurd conclusions

Identify the forces that determine which variants in a system survive, spread, and reproduce while others fail. Understanding selection pressure reveals why things are the way they are and predicts...

Balance righteous fury with self-deprecating humility using Bill Burr's technique of interrupting your own rants to acknowledge you might be wrong, you're probably an idiot—then resuming with even ...

Identify the specific ways people (including oneself) deceive themselves - the rationalizations, projections, and blind spots that prevent accurate perception.

Transform personal insecurities and failures into material that disarms criticism before it lands, creating permission for vulnerability and absurdity

Apply Bob Hope's "hit yourself first" strategy to earn audience goodwill before targeting others. This skill transforms personal vulnerabilities into comedic armor that makes subsequent jokes safer...

Structure jokes using Rodney Dangerfield''s perpetual-victim formula: "I tried [positive action]" → "[Authority figure/other person] [denied/mocked/ruined it]

Reframe content to make yourself the target or fool instead of others, maintaining humor while removing meanness and creating universal relatability.

Transform personal vulnerabilities into powerful comedy material by attacking yourself first and harder than anyone else could. Based on Joan Rivers' methodology.

Add self-deprecating undercutting to deflate moments of competence, expertise, or achievement. Transform authoritative or accomplished content into relatable, humble material by revealing your own ...

A methodology for shifting from asking permission to asserting agency, transforming the stance from petitioner to decision-maker. This skill reframes situations away from seeking approval and toward claiming rightful authority over one's own choices and conditions.

Diagnose beliefs about capability in specific domains and identify sources for building or restoring efficacy.

A structured self-reflection practice based on Confucian principles. Before seeking to change others, examine yourself. Before criticizing, look inward. This is the root of all moral progress.

A complete methodology for Self-realization through investigation of the "I"-thought, derived from Ramana Maharshi's direct teaching of Atma Vichara (Self-inquiry).

A systematic framework for observing your own mechanical patterns, center activity, and automatic responses - derived from P.D. Ouspensky's Fourth Way teaching.

Analyze relationship dynamics through the lens of who is Subject and who is Other, who holds transcendence and who is trapped in immanence, to understand power imbalances and find paths to mutual r...

Guide the development of divided attention - simultaneous awareness of self and environment/activity.

Embody Seneca - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Cultivate and restore the capacity for awe at natural or complex phenomena, grounding understanding in wonder rather than mere information.

Exercises for developing physical awareness as the foundation for presence and self-remembering.

Identify windows of heightened receptivity in a learner's behavior and recommend how to optimize learning during these periods.

Embody Serena Williams - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Structure content with strategic hooks, cliff-hangers, and alternating registers to maintain reader engagement across installments, following Dickens's serialization methodology.

Play characters with absolute seriousness who are catastrophically bad at what they do, never acknowledging their incompetence

A methodology for engineering contexts that shape experiences. Based on the insight that outcomes are determined less by the content of an experience than by the mindset brought to it (set) and the...

Embody Seth Godin - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Seth Meyers - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Transform straightforward content into layered narratives using Dave Chappelle''s signature storytelling arc: setup familiar premises, build expectations, misdirect with unexpected elements, then re...

Evaluate APIs, integrations, and developer-facing interfaces for minimum viable complexity using Stripe''s founding philosophy: "What would this look like if you could do it in seven lines of code?

Subject hypotheses, strategies, or beliefs to their strongest possible objections. A theory proves its worth not by accumulating confirmations but by surviving attempts to disprove it.

Reframe sexual or relationship topics from shame-based to sex-positive using casualness, smart observations, self-awareness, and universal relatability. Embeds feminist commentary without preaching.

Make progress on decisions when information is incomplete or ambiguous. Apply Leonardo da Vinci''s sfumato principle: "a willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty" rather than forci...