Claude Skills by sethmblack

Assess the alignment between inner experience and outer expression, identifying where incongruence may be causing difficulty.

Transform ordinary activities into conscious work by maintaining presence during tasks.

Evaluate whether political authority, institutional power, or governance arrangements rest on genuine consent and serve legitimate ends.

Analyze fragmented systems, tools, or processes and develop a unification strategy to reduce redundancy, improve efficiency, and bring order to chaos.

Design explicit guardrails and self-evaluation principles for autonomous systems using Dario Amodei's Constitutional AI methodology.

Transform constraints, flawed starting conditions, and inherited failures into opportunities for mastery--finding the giant within the rejected stone.

Transform perceived limitations into creative catalysts by reframing constraints as enabling structures, following Bach's principle that restrictions birth creativity.

Generate innovative solutions by treating resource constraints as creative fuel rather than obstacles.

Transform limitations into competitive advantages by finding the innovation hidden within every constraint.

Transform project limitations into design generators by stacking constraints together until they produce the form.

Evaluate and build organizational culture where the best argument wins regardless of hierarchy, and conflict is channeled productively. Based on Andy Grove''s Intel culture: "You can never be afraid...

Apply Martin Luther King Jr.'s "creative tension" framework when negotiation has failed and organizational inertia blocks necessary change.

Analyze the consumer experience at the two critical moments: the purchase decision (First Moment) and the usage experience (Second Moment).

Introduce contemplative prayer practice—the wordless, loving awareness of God's presence. Based on Thomas Merton's teaching that contemplation is not technique but gift, not achievement but surrender.

**Origin:** John of the Cross (San Juan de la Cruz) **Domain:** Christian Mysticism / Prayer Development **Purpose:** Guide someone through the transition from discursive meditation to receptive co...

Verify that expert content is original, properly attributed, and does not infringe on copyrights. Ensures quotes are attributed, extended passages don't exceed fair use, and content is transformati...

Choose optimal placement for messages, content, or interventions by evaluating context resonance, audience access, permanence, risk, and spreadability—making location itself part of the message.

Convert a control-based management situation into a context-based one by providing the information package that enables autonomous decision-making.

Expand thinking beyond immediate boundaries to find natural coalitions, shared enemies, and larger visions that unite formerly separate actors.

Systematically analyze behavior using the three-term contingency (ABC: Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence) to diagnose why behavior occurs or fails to occur.

Replace static strategic planning with continuous assessment and rapid course correction, operating at "speed of light" while maintaining strategic coherence.

Expose institutional hypocrisy by forcing targets to comply perfectly with their own stated values—either they change their behavior or their hypocrisy is undeniably exposed.

Analyze complex situations as multiple independent voices that must work together while maintaining their own integrity, using Bach's counterpoint principles.

Systematically evaluate and acquire assets that are being abandoned by the market, holding patiently until sentiment reverses.

Examine beliefs, plans, or decisions for hidden conventional thinking, identifying where you might be wrong because you're following the crowd.

Evaluate whether a neglected or unpopular position represents genuine value or justified rejection.

A skill for tracing systems of control through need, addiction, and dependence - understanding how power operates through the creation and management of desires.

Systematically identify and dismantle "we've always done it this way" thinking by exposing assumptions, questioning their validity, and demonstrating alternatives.

Create authentic connection by strategically disclosing personal flaws first, establishing safety for reciprocal honesty

Act on deep inner conviction when external validation is absent, evidence is lacking, or logic counsels retreat. When the calling is real, proof becomes secondary to obedience.

Evaluate marketing copy against Ogilvy's principles to identify what's working, what's failing, and how to make it sell.

Create committable organizational core values through employee input and systematic implementation, following Tony Hsieh's Zappos methodology.

Design organizational structures that balance autonomy with coordination, allowing parallel action and rapid concentration.

Connect existential life questions to their theological depth, revealing how human situations imply questions that correlate with symbolic answers.

Assess organizational or institutional health using Machiavelli's five-stage corruption framework.

Gain perspective on problems, conflicts, or decisions by zooming out to cosmic scale. Reveal what truly matters against the backdrop of space and time.

Transform narrow, immediate problems by placing them in universal context. Reveal what's fundamental versus parochial, restoring perspective and proportion.

Design backward from target price to solution, making affordability a design input rather than an output.

Systematically identify cost reduction opportunities and efficiency investments using Carnegie's "watch the costs" methodology.

Examine any decision, policy, commitment, or initiative for "cheap grace" - where the cost that genuine transformation requires is being avoided, where change is promised without sacrifice, where c...

Answer "What would have happened if...?" questions by computing counterfactuals from a structural causal model. This is the highest rung of causal reasoning, enabling attribution, regret analysis, ...

Diagnose the specific form of existential anxiety (ontic, moral, spiritual), distinguish it from neurotic anxiety, and ground the courage to be in the power of being itself.

Build courage as the master virtue that enables all other values to be practiced consistently. Transform fear from barrier to signal.

Help leaders identify how past courage enables future courage and build capacity for difficult decisions using Katharine Graham's insight that courage compounds.

Transform fear into action-based confidence. Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's philosophy that strength, courage, and confidence come from facing fear directly—not from thinking about fear or avoiding i...

Transform a legal proceeding into political theater that advances the defendant's message regardless of verdict outcome.

Evaluate the durability of any agreement by examining its enforcement mechanisms. Covenants without the sword are but words—this skill identifies whether an agreement will hold when tested.

Design a systematic path to mastery through progressive difficulty, daily practice, and practical example-based learning - following Bach's proven pedagogical methods.

Analyze any act of creation through Mary Shelley's framework to surface unexamined responsibilities, overlooked consequences, and the obligations that creation entails.

Guide someone to see creation as St. Francis saw it - all creatures as brothers and sisters praising the Creator, the natural world as mirror of divine love and source of wonder.