Claude Skills by sethmblack

Explore and integrate the rejected, disowned aspects of self that unconsciously influence behavior and relationships.

Transform a simple narrative, idea, or explanation into an extended shaggy dog story with elaborate buildup, seemingly irrelevant details, and an anticlimactic or subversive punchline.

When someone is experiencing shame (or shaming others), diagnose whether it's shame vs guilt, apply Brene Brown's four elements of shame resilience, and guide toward connection rather than disconne...

Take a relatable situation and expose the shameful thought everyone has but won't admit, then own it completely and implicate the audience in sharing that shame.

Design a shaping procedure to build complex behavior through successive approximations, specifying starting behavior, terminal behavior, and reinforcement steps.

Identify opportunities to create economic value while simultaneously creating value for society using Porter's Creating Shared Value (CSV) framework.

Assess and plan balanced self-renewal across Covey's four dimensions to maintain and enhance personal effectiveness.

Embody Shelley Berman - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

A practice for identifying the "hook" moment - that urge or tightening that precedes habitual reactivity - and creating space for choice.

Embody Sheryl Sandberg - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Evaluate strategic momentum - the accumulation of potential energy and the timing of its release. Determine whether forces are properly concentrated and whether the moment for action has arrived.

The complete methodology for "just sitting" — the Soto Zen practice of seated meditation without object, goal, or technique, derived from Dogen Zenji's teaching that zazen is not a means to enlight...

Overcome perfectionism, fear, and resistance to launch creative work or products, based on Seth Godin's philosophy from "Linchpin" and "The Practice.

Evaluate whether dark or controversial content is shock-for-shock's-sake or properly structured with misdirection and craft.

Convert abstract statements, descriptions, and "telling" into concrete scenes, dialogue, and dramatization. Based on Twain''s principle: "Don''t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her sc...

Embody Sid Caesar - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Analyze a topic or situation and identify the off-beat observation that others have missed—the detail that's obvious once stated but hasn't been discussed.

Embody Sigmund Freud - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Develop distinctive, recognizable signature elements for a brand, product line, or personal identity. Based on Coco Chanel''s iconic markers: the interlocking CC, the camellia, black and white, pear...

A methodology for making absence compositionally significant, treating what's missing as an active element rather than empty space.

The "S.U." (shut up) method for extracting truth in interviews through silence, persistence, and return visits. Based on Robert Caro's foundational interviewing approach.

Embody Simon Bolivar - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Simon Sinek - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Simone De Beauvoir - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Simone Weil - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Systematically eliminate unnecessary complexity from a product, feature, or process by applying Steve Jobs''s ruthless simplification methodology: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

A structured approach to distilling complex material to its elegant essence—as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Systematically identify and eliminate unnecessary complexity, options, and variations from systems, processes, or products.

Take complex technical or abstract concepts and make them accessible without losing essential truth.

Transform critical technical feedback into constructive guidance that maintains relationships and achieves actual behavior change, using Dale Carnegie's principles of appreciation, indirect correct...

Apply metamodern emotional oscillation to create content where sincerity and irony exist simultaneously, revealing genuine feeling through ironic forms while preventing audiences from settling into...

Design accountability structures where one person owns every aspect of an outcome - every trade-off, every decision, every result.

Transform any repetitive, seemingly futile task into a source of meaning through consciousness, ownership, and engagement - finding happiness in the struggle itself rather than the goal.

Evaluate how well a design integrates with its context and recommend improvements for achieving organic fit—where design and site enhance each other.

Evaluate seating design against William H. Whyte's empirical criteria—ledge depth, step height, sun orientation, movability, and street relationship.

Analyze what is genuinely possible within a constrained situation, distinguishing real limits from bad faith excuses, to find authentic paths to transcendence.

Analyze state-changing systems using situation calculus concepts to identify situations, fluents, actions, and frame axioms - revealing what changes and what must persist.

Structure complex proposals, strategic decisions, and business cases using narrative prose instead of bullet points. This forces complete thinking and eliminates the logical gaps that slide decks h...

A complete framework for spiritual self-discipline derived from Al-Ghazali's *Ihya 'Ulum al-Din* Book 38 (Vigilance and Self-Examination). This system treats spiritual development as a cycle of com...

Evaluate any advice, decision-maker, system, or relationship by assessing who bears the consequences of decisions, identifying dangerous asymmetries, and determining trustworthiness.

Communicate difficult truths indirectly, using metaphor, image, and circumlocution to allow the listener to arrive at understanding without being overwhelmed or blinded.

Transform a topic, observation, or piece of content into a Nate Bargatze-style slow-burn story with patient pacing, accumulating details, and present-tense delivery that lets mundane situations rev...

Eliminate unnecessary complexity by applying the frugal wisdom of Smaland: simple solutions that anyone can understand and execute.

Find meaning and effectiveness when facing overwhelming need — release the burden of solving everything while pouring complete love into the smallest possible acts.

Break large, intimidating problems into sequences of smaller, tractable steps. Based on Shannon's observation that "it seems to be much easier to make two small jumps than one big jump in any kind ...

Design repeating visual structures that enable comparison across variables, time periods, or categories. Based on Edward Tufte's principle that once viewers understand one frame, they immediately u...

Turn constraints into advantages. A small entity must be excellent where a large one can be mediocre. Position yourself as useful to all, threatening to none. Build capabilities that compensate for...

Define the minimum viable audience for a product, service, or initiative to succeed, based on Seth Godin's "This is Marketing" methodology.

Design and evaluate hiring processes that attract and select smart creatives - employees who combine deep technical knowledge, business savvy, and creative energy.

Evaluate whether an arrangement, institution, or authority has genuine legitimacy based on consent and service to the common good.