Claude Skills by sethmblack

Embody Stephen Hawking - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Present the Christian gospel clearly and invitingly using the four-step framework developed by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

Embody Steve Jobs - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Steve Martin - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Steven Wright - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Stewart Lee - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Analyze accumulations (stocks) and rates of change (flows) to understand why systems respond slowly to intervention, where momentum builds, and why impatience leads to oscillation.

Guide leaders through balancing unwavering faith with brutal honesty when facing significant challenges. Apply the Stockdale Paradox to navigate adversity without falling into denial or despair.

A Stoic framework for maintaining equanimity and responding virtuously when dealing with difficult people.

Structure narrative content using verse-chapter-bridge-resolution architecture with emotional pivot points.

Visualize and sequence any experience, journey, or narrative by mapping it scene-by-scene before building - Walt Disney's methodology for seeing the whole picture, enabling cheap iteration and crea...

Respond to pressure without committing. Preserve optionality through deliberately ambiguous language that gives hope to all parties while promising nothing.

Identify and plan development of strategic capabilities requiring sustained organizational investment using Hamilton's industrial policy principles.

Use mercy as a strategic instrument to convert defeated opponents into obligated allies. Spare enemies to bind them; elevation creates debt.

Design first impressions and initial presentations that establish favorable frames for relationships, negotiations, or new situations.

Transform societal role expectations into comedy through spectacular, joyful failure that exposes the absurdity of the expectations themselves.

A methodology for gaining power and clarity by deliberately not caring about outcomes that others treat as essential. This isn't apathy—it's the calculated withdrawal of emotional investment from g...

Diagnose whether a business challenge represents a strategic inflection point requiring fundamental transformation, or a normal problem requiring incremental improvement. Based on Andy Grove's fram...

Evaluate whether immediate action or patient waiting better serves strategic objectives.

Assess whether a situation requires patience or action, and develop the discipline for long-term strategic thinking when immediate results are not possible.

Design giving or contribution strategies that build capacity rather than create dependency, using Carnegie's library-building philosophy.

Guide organizations through existential platform transitions while managing legacy business dependencies, based on Satya Nadella's "mobile-first, cloud-first" transformation of Microsoft from Windo...

Distinguish between operational effectiveness improvements and true strategic positioning to clarify what constitutes sustainable competitive advantage.

Establish and communicate a maximum of three clear strategic priorities that guide all major decisions and resource allocation.

Guide individuals or organizations through intentional transformation before external forces demand it—leaving success behind to find the next thing.

Evaluate whether to continue or retreat from a market, business line, or initiative using the principle that strategic retreat enables reallocation toward higher-value opportunities.

Identify where silence, pause, or the unsaid can strengthen communication more than additional words. Mark the places where the dash does more than the sentence.

Determine optimal timing for major actions using Harriet Tubman's "Saturday Night" methodology - analyzing observation cycles, response delays, and cover conditions.

Systematically walk through the five strategic questions from Lafley and Martin's Playing to Win framework to develop an integrated strategy.

Analyze how users or teams actually experience a system, process, or product as continuous flow rather than discrete features, using James's stream of consciousness framework.

Transform linear content into flowing, self-interrupting, tangent-rich prose that loops back unexpectedly while maintaining hidden coherence

Render experience from within consciousness, capturing how thought and sensation actually move rather than how we summarize them afterward.

Diagnose urban problems by walking neighborhoods and watching what actually happens, rather than relying on plans, maps, or statistics. Based on Jane Jacobs's methodology of understanding cities th...

Analyze existing street configurations and propose lane reallocation to improve walkability and safety while maintaining traffic flow.

A methodology for awakening the infinite divine strength already present within, derived from Swami Vivekananda's distinctive teaching that weakness is sin and strength is the foundation of all spi...

Identify signature character strengths and design daily practices to deploy them in work and life, increasing engagement, satisfaction, and performance.

Transform hesitation, comfort-seeking, or fear of difficulty into decisive action through Theodore Roosevelt's framework of embracing the strenuous path over ignoble ease.

Trace individual problems to systemic causes and reframe blame from individuals to structures.

Provide psychological support and practical guidance for leaders experiencing The Struggle - the defining crisis of entrepreneurship when everything feels impossible.

Embody Stuart Russell - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

View any situation, problem, or experience "under the aspect of eternity"—seeing particular things as necessary expressions of infinite substance rather than contingent, transient events.

Evaluate whether someone has truly appropriated a truth—made it their own through passionate commitment—or merely acknowledges it as information. Test the subjective relationship to beliefs.

Develop potential successors by giving them access to decision-making processes, identifying skill gaps, and preparing them for leadership transition.

Develop and execute leadership transition plans that establish positive precedent and ensure organizational continuity.

Transform unavoidable suffering by changing the attitude toward it. Based on Viktor Frankl's insight that when we cannot change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Apply Leibniz's Principle of Sufficient Reason to any claim, decision, or situation. For any fact or truth, demand and evaluate the sufficient reason why it is so and not otherwise. *Nihil est sine...

Identify and decompose vague, overloaded terms that hide conceptual confusion, enabling precise discussion and accurate system evaluation.

Embody Sun Tzu - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Clear bias, preconceptions, and ego from decision-making. Approach problems with the "untrapped mind" that is open enough to see possibilities, humble enough to learn from anyone, perceptive enough...

Respond to every request—from customers, partners, or team members—by the end of the same day. Speed and responsiveness compound into trust.