Claude Skills by sethmblack

A guided breathing meditation for transforming suffering into compassion, based on the Tibetan Buddhist practice of "sending and taking.

Embody Toni Morrison - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Tony Hsieh - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Evaluate products, features, or acquisitions by testing whether they will be used daily by billions and genuinely improve lives, using Larry Page's prioritization framework that values usefulness over financial metrics.

Transform current news events into rapid-fire comedy monologue using Bob Hope's topical immediacy technique. This skill structures headlines into comedic material that feels fresh, immediate, and u...

Identify where control has been surrendered to convention, assumption, or neglect—and assess whether that surrender serves or undermines your vision.

Identify early warning signs and structural patterns that echo totalitarian logic in contemporary situations. Based on Hannah Arendt's analysis in *The Origins of Totalitarianism*.

A methodology for combining disparate cultural, artistic, and intellectual sources into new forms where the origins blur and something genuinely new emerges.

Maintain hope and find meaning in the face of the "tragic triad": unavoidable pain, inescapable guilt, and certain death. Viktor Frankl''s framework for optimism that does not deny tragedy but trans...

Demonstrate the convertibility and mutual dependence of beauty, goodness, and truth - restoring wholeness when one has been separated from the others.

Diagnose any place, site, neighborhood, or development proposal by identifying its position on the rural-to-urban transect, then revealing mismatches between context, building type, street design, and land use that explain why the place succeeds or fails.

Conduct interviews that go beyond surface answers to reveal authentic stories and genuine connection. Based on Oprah Winfrey's methodology developed over 37,000+ interviews - the approach that beca...

Evaluate a proposed or existing development near transit against TOD best practices using Peter Calthorpe's framework. Assess compliance with the six core elements of successful TOD and generate specific recommendations with projected performance metrics.

Transform a team or organization's culture from hiding problems to surfacing them by creating psychological safety through deliberate response patterns and celebration of honesty.

Classify decisions as one-way doors (trapdoors) or two-way doors to determine appropriate deliberation level. Move fast on reversible decisions; deliberate carefully on irreversible ones.

Create immersive, vivid narratives about places and experiences that make readers feel present in unfamiliar locations through sensory detail, personal discovery, and authentic observation (inspire...

Plan and approach travel in a way that allows genuine transformation rather than mere consumption of experiences.

Embody Trevor Noah - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Maintain your position and composure under hostile questioning designed to trap, discredit, or force recantation. When they come for you with questions, answer with faith.

Design team systems that give each member a vital role and high creativity within clear structure, using Phil Jackson's triangle offense as a model for empowering collaboration.

Identify and design for triangulation—the external stimuli that bring strangers together and prompt social interaction.

Identify when reasoning has been corrupted by partisan loyalty using Orwell's framework from "Notes on Nationalism.

Design and nurture a tribe or movement around a product, cause, or leader, based on Seth Godin's methodology from "Tribes.

Craft communications that inspire extraordinary effort from teams facing difficult challenges.

Manage individuals who threaten team cohesion without alienating them or losing their valuable contributions.

Guide exploration of authentic identity versus constructed ego. Based on Thomas Merton's distinction between the true self (hidden with Christ in God) and the false self (constructed from illusion ...

Diagnose trust issues in a relationship or team using Brene Brown's BRAVING inventory - Boundaries, Reliability, Accountability, Vault, Integrity, Non-judgment, Generosity - and identify specific a...

A MacKenzie Scott methodology for assessing any resource allocation decision through the lens of trust vs. control.

Evaluate relationship health and team dynamics using Tobi Lutke's trust battery metaphor. Diagnose current charge levels, identify what's charging or depleting trust, and prescribe specific actions...

Diagnose whether leadership is building trust through inspiration or undermining it through manipulation, and recommend changes for lasting loyalty.

Navigate difficult conversations where conflicting truths must be acknowledged and reconciled without dismissing either party

Deliver difficult truths in a way that honors both honesty and human dignity. Speak truth without cruelty, challenge without destroying.

Connect a present moment to its buried sources—dig caves behind a reaction, feeling, or situation to reveal how past experiences shape present response.

Exhaustive document research methodology that ensures no source is overlooked. Based on Robert Caro's foundational research principle.

Analyze any organization, team, or project to determine whether it is built primarily on self-love (the Earthly City - serving itself) or mission-love (the Heavenly City - serving its stated purpos...

Approach any significant problem by first identifying who has solved it and what can be learned from their approach.

Design and balance two-sided marketplaces that serve both supply (creators/sellers) and demand (consumers/buyers) with appropriate tools, incentives, and value capture mechanisms.

Assess and build genuine community through Desmond Tutu''s ubuntu philosophy: "I am because we are." Transform isolation into interdependence and collections of individuals into true communities.

Diagnose whether something finite is being treated as ultimate, reveal the consequences of misplaced ultimacy, and redirect toward what genuinely deserves unconditional devotion.

Distinguish genuine uncertainty from calculable risk, and select the appropriate decision-making framework.

Identify and articulate the uncomfortable truth that everyone knows but refuses to acknowledge in any situation, content, or social dynamic. Based on Patrice O'Neal's "Elephant in the Room" methodo...

Analyze surface behaviors and stated reasons to uncover hidden motivations, secondary gains, and the dynamic forces that truly drive behavior.

Develop strategy for competing against dominant market incumbents by identifying and exploiting their vulnerabilities while leveraging underdog advantages.

Expose what lies beneath surface presentations by applying Dostoevsky's Underground Man lens to reveal the contradictions, resentments, and irrational impulses that truly motivate behavior.

Create a step-by-step generative sequence for designing, building, or transforming something while preserving and extending wholeness at each step.

Lead and influence when you lack formal credentials, traditional qualifications, or positional authority. Authority flows from mission, not permission.

Design handcrafted, unscalable customer engagement to build deep understanding before scaling. Identify opportunities to do things that do not scale - because in order to scale, you must first do w...

Identify specific unscalable actions that can accelerate early traction for a product or startup.

Interrupt ego-centered rumination and redirect attention to reality through beauty, outward attention, or focused engagement with the real world.

Identify the strategic pressure point where a small intervention will release blocked urban energy and catalyze transformation across the broader system.