Claude Skills by sethmblack

Transform statistics, policy critiques, and systemic issues into emotionally compelling individual stories that move readers to action, following Dickens's method of showing systems through souls.

Decompose any complex system behavior into a "society" of interacting simple agents, revealing how intelligence emerges from non-intelligence.

Embody Socrates - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Test any belief, claim, or assertion through systematic cross-examination—drawing out definitions, implications, and contradictions until the claim either withstands scrutiny or reveals its inadequ...

A systematic methodology for converting sanitized, bureaucratic, or deliberately vague language into direct, honest speech. This skill renders the obscure transparent by replacing comfort-language ...

Analyze any industry through Marc Andreessen's "software is eating the world" lens to identify disruption opportunities and threats.

Reframe technical discussions using Karpathy's Software 1.0/2.0/3.0 lens to explain why AI systems behave differently than traditional software.

Embody Soichiro Honda - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Guide response to collective catastrophe or shared suffering through Camus's ethic of solidarity - doing one's job with decency, resisting despair, and recognizing that we cannot save ourselves alone.

Articulate the unspoken internal dialogue—the thoughts and feelings someone cannot or will not express publicly.

Deploy elevated language to describe increasingly chaotic situations, creating comedy through linguistic precision meeting physical disaster

Reframe political statements or actions using the "I was taught / but actually" pattern to expose gaps between official mythology and observable reality.

Embody Soren Kierkegaard - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Disrupt narrative flow and create humor through sonic elements - onomatopoeia, verbal explosions, and sound-based language

Design or evaluate governance structures by ensuring clear, undivided authority with defined enforcement mechanisms. Divided sovereignty is no sovereignty—this skill creates governance that can act...

Redesign spaces by focusing on interior experience and flow rather than walls and boundaries—destroying the box to create spatial sequences that serve human life.

Develop a comprehensive plan to reclaim car-dominated space and convert it to pedestrian, cycling, transit, or green space use.

Design and embed word-sized graphics within text, tables, and documents for contextual data display. Based on Edward Tufte's concept of "intense, word-sized graphics.

Identify what you're uniquely suited to build by finding the intersection of your obsessions, talents, and market needs - following Naval Ravikant's framework for discovering knowledge that cannot ...

Transform abstract emotional language into concrete, specific sensory details that paradoxically create more universal resonance.

Replace vague, generic statements with hyper-specific, concrete details that ground observations in reality and make them funnier and more relatable.

Analyze any situation to identify where authentic experience has been replaced by representation.

A skill for designing brief, visual interventions in sacred or state spaces that create indelible images and provoke revealing responses.

A skill for identifying how public discourse is bounded to exclude certain positions - the invisible walls that define what's thinkable.

Structure any presentation, argument, or extended persuasive communication using classical arrangement patterns for maximum impact.

Use speed as a strategic weapon—move faster than opponents believe possible to create advantages that careful planning cannot achieve.

Apply Patrick Collison's insight that "slow and expensive usually go together" to identify where temporal constraints can force simplicity, reduce cost, and accelerate execution.

Diagnose whether a team or organization is shipping fast enough and create a culture of iteration over perfection.

Embody Spike Milligan - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Transform generic emotional statements into layered confessional narratives that spiral from surface behavior into psychological architecture, revealing the internalized voices and patterns driving...

**Origin:** John of the Cross (San Juan de la Cruz) **Domain:** Christian Mysticism / Spiritual Formation **Purpose:** Guide someone through systematic release of attachments using the nada (nothin...

Discern whether spiritual experiences, consolations, or inner movements are genuinely from God. Based on Teresa of Ávila's extensive teaching on testing the spirits.

Distinguish between designed order and emergent order in any system, and identify what rules would enable beneficial spontaneous coordination.

Multi-level trade analysis covering assets, narrative, gambling implications, historical comps, and fan emotion

Adjudicate disputes or design policies that achieve genuine fairness without favoritism or class warfare, using Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal framework.

Embody Sri Aurobindo - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody St Francis Of Assisi - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody St Paul - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Map all stakeholders, define value propositions for each, identify synergies, and create accountability through measurement.

Insert strategic pauses, false starts, and stammering patterns to build comedic tension and create musical timing in dialogue

Embody Stan Laurel - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Stanley Hauerwas - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Stanley Kubrick - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Evaluate startup ideas using Paul Graham's framework for organic ideas, problem-founder fit, and market potential.

Evaluate a startup or opportunity using John Doerr''s venture capital investment criteria: the Five Criteria for Series A investments and the missionaries vs mercenaries team assessment framework.

Analyze any situation by imagining what would happen if the current authority structure disappeared—revealing the underlying interests, conflicts, and power dynamics that existing institutions supp...

Transform the practice of learning from influences into true creative theft—absorbing and transforming rather than merely copying.

Embody Stephen Colbert - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Stephen Covey - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Stephen Fry - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills