Claude Skills by sethmblack

Restructure content to establish WHY the topic matters BEFORE delivering the main points or punchlines, earning audience investment through groundwork rather than hoping they'll care later.

Apply Mill's Greatest Happiness Principle to evaluate actions, policies, or decisions by their tendency to promote happiness for all affected—counting each person equally while attending to the qua...

Embody Vaclav Havel - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Disaggregate a company's activities to identify sources of competitive advantage, cost drivers, and differentiation opportunities using Porter's Value Chain framework.

Transform organizational values from costs or PR into competitive differentiators embedded in product architecture and business model.

Guide organizational turnarounds through values recovery rather than purely financial restructuring, based on Howard Schultz's methodology for restoring Starbucks' soul during the 2008 crisis.

Evaluate team members or candidates using the principle of "zero tolerance for values violations; infinite patience for skill development.

Identify hidden variables causing inconsistent results. When outcomes vary unexpectedly, systematically isolate the source of variation rather than dismissing results as random or the method as unr...

Systematically identify and catalog the variations within any population, system, or category. Variation is the raw material on which selection acts—without understanding what varies, you cannot pr...

Expose how the principle of individuation - the illusion that we are fundamentally separate selves - blinds us to our common suffering and leads to egoism, conflict, and alienation.

Take common speech—diner talk, jailhouse slang, everyday language—and lift it into poetry without losing its roughness.

Analyze operations for dependency vulnerabilities and integration opportunities using Carnegie's supply chain control methodology.

Analyze dependencies in a system or business and recommend integration strategies to reduce vulnerability, cost, and loss of control.

Identify what to remove, avoid, or stop doing before adding anything new. Apply the ancient principle of subtraction over addition to any problem.

Identify paths to achieving objectives without direct confrontation - the supreme excellence of strategy. Find ways to make opponents concede, withdraw, or become irrelevant.

A progressive visualization that widens perspective from immediate problems to cosmic scale, restoring proportion and equanimity.

Embody Viktor Frankl - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Strengthen any conflict, pitch, or narrative by investing in the opposition, obstacle, or antagonist.

Embody Vincent Van Gogh - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Viola Spolin - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Virginia Woolf - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Diagnose any situation, system, or person by identifying where life-force flows (viriditas) and where it has dried up (ariditas), revealing root causes of stagnation and paths to renewal.

A framework for lifelong personal development based on Confucius's teaching of staged moral and intellectual growth. Becoming an exemplary person (junzi) is not achieved suddenly but cultivated ste...

Evaluate ethical questions through the lens of character and virtue rather than rules or consequences. Analyze what a person of practical wisdom would do and what character traits are being developed.

A methodology for moral transformation through habitual practice in community, derived from Stanley Hauerwas's virtue ethics and his insistence that character is formed through doing, not through i...

Provide a comprehensive framework for moral development by integrating the four cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance) with the three theological virtues (faith, hope, charity)...

Guide systematic personal improvement using Benjamin Franklin's proven method of tracking virtues, focusing on one at a time, and cycling through them consistently over time.

Methodology for defending ambitious, unconventional ideas against criticism that they are "unbuildable," "impractical," or "impossible." Based on Zaha Hadid's experience of 16 years as a "paper arc...

Convert concepts into visual diagrams (Venn diagrams, pie charts, graphs, bar charts) that reveal absurdity through literal representation. Inspired by Demetri Martin's visual comedy technique.

Evaluate any communication to identify where visual demonstration could replace verbal explanation.

Analyze or design visual compositions using Kubrick's principles of symmetry, one-point perspective, and geometric meaning.

Transform vague observations or criticisms into devastating, memorable roasts through concrete, visual details and unexpected comparisons. Based on Joan Rivers' roasting technique.

Analyze activities, life patterns, or institutional contexts through Hannah Arendt''s tripartite framework of human activity: labor, work, and action.

Assess and categorize team members into performance tiers (top 20%, vital 70%, bottom 10%) with clear actions for each tier. Based on Jack Welch''s differentiation principle: "Differentiation is the...

Build characters from the voice outward using accent, rhythm, pitch, and vocal patterns as the foundation of character psychology

Analyze how someone speaks to reveal what they're protecting, aspiring to, or unconsciously signaling about status and identity

Embody Voltaire - the philosopher who made the Enlightenment dangerous through satirical demolition, attacking tyranny and superstition with wit sharper than any sword.

Build resilience and reduce fear of loss by deliberately practicing hardship before it's imposed.

Use authentic openness about your struggles as a strategic tool for building trust, connection, and genuine leadership influence. Based on Oprah Winfrey's pioneering approach of sharing her own cha...

Tell a story that seems embarrassing, then reveal it gets worse, each level earning more trust and bigger laughs

Embody W Kamau Bell - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Systematically evaluate any place against Jeff Speck's General Theory of Walkability - for a walk to be favored, it must be useful, safe, comfortable, and interesting.

Assess a neighborhood or development's walkability using Peter Calthorpe's five-minute (quarter-mile) standard. Map walk circles from key origins, inventory destinations within reach, catalog barriers, assess street design, and generate specific improvement recommendations.

Embody Walt Disney - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Walter Brueggemann - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Wanda Sykes - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Warren Buffett - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Diagnose whether an organization is in wartime (survival) or peacetime (growth) mode and prescribe the appropriate leadership style.

Apply Lao Tzu's water teaching to strategic situations - finding the path of least resistance, using softness to overcome hardness, and persisting without force.

Develop comprehensive strategy for transforming industrial, underutilized, or privatized waterfronts into public amenities.