Research

Apply Benjamin Graham's iconic Mr. Market metaphor to understand market behavior, identify emotional extremes, and find opportunities in irrationality.

Transform any perceived slight, criticism, doubt, or challenge into sustainable fuel for elite performance using Michael Jordan's "And I Took That Personally" methodology.

Uncover the layered motivations driving a person's behavior using Shakespeare's three-level psychological framework.

Assess the quality of moral vision regarding a situation, revealing what clearer, more loving seeing might show.

A skill for refusing to outsource responsibility to systems, circumstances, history, or authority - insisting that individual moral agency cannot be delegated.

Diagnose whether a person, organization, or practice is living/operating authentically or artificially, using Leo Tolstoy's framework from *The Death of Ivan Ilyich*.

Apply proportioned skepticism—fierce enough to challenge dogma, gentle enough to preserve practical life. Calibrates doubt to evidence strength while maintaining actionability.

Embody Mitch Hedberg - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Reframe a problem as a two-player game with competing objectives, identifying players, strategies, and equilibrium conditions using Ian Goodfellow's game-theoretic approach.

A methodology for achieving maximum impact through the smallest possible action. Instead of elaborate efforts, find the single move that reveals the most, changes the most, or disrupts the most wit...

Embody Mike Nichols - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Apply Cartesian systematic skepticism to beliefs, claims, or assumptions to identify what can be known with certainty versus what is merely assumed or probable.

Evaluate people based on demonstrated results and proven ability rather than credentials, titles, or background.

Reset your mental state during high-pressure moments when emotions threaten to derail your performance.

Embody Meister Eckhart - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Analyze calendars and meeting patterns to identify meetings that should be eliminated, restructured, or protected. Reclaim time for deep work by applying Tobi Lutke's anti-meeting principles.

A skill for designing elaborate fictions that expose media credulity and teach critical thinking about information sources.

A systematic examination of claimed choices, decisions, and acts of will - revealing the mechanical chains of cause and effect that underlie the illusion of free agency. Derived from P.D. Ouspensky...

Ground claims and decisions in measurable evidence, designing appropriate metrics and verification processes—following Marie Curie's principle that what cannot be measured cannot be known with cert...

Design a personal or communal rule of life using John Wesley's framework of reliable channels through which transforming power flows.

A methodology for creating communication that expands rather than reduces interpretation, allowing single expressions to carry multiple simultaneous truths.

Discover sources of meaning through Viktor Frankl''s three avenues: what you give to life (creative), what you receive from life (experiential), and the stance you take toward unavoidable circumstan...

A framework for holding beliefs lightly, practicing epistemic humility, and maintaining cognitive flexibility in the face of uncertainty.

Embody Maya Angelou - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills