Research

Embody Benjamin Franklin - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Assess team culture against Martin Luther King Jr.'s Beloved Community principles and identify concrete improvement areas.

Make better group decisions by weighting opinions based on demonstrated competence rather than treating all views equally.

A methodology for identifying and releasing beliefs that were installed rather than chosen. Based on the insight that much of what we "think" is actually conditioning—absorbed from family, culture,...

Design a real-world test to gather evidence about a belief that persists despite verbal challenging. Based on Aaron Beck's behavioral experiment methodology in cognitive therapy.

A structured four-step practice for healing relationships and restoring communication, derived from Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village tradition. This practice transforms conflict into connection throu...

Challenge the assumption that meaning can be grounded in purely private experience. Use the "beetle in a box" thought experiment to show that if inner states are truly private, they drop out as irr...

Find dignity in failure, nobility in the downtrodden, and grace in the grotesque. Every overlooked subject deserves an epic.

Approach impossible-seeming goals as both personal achievements and contributions to collective progress, transforming even failure into meaningful impact.

Fill every corner with detail, density, and layered information. Create meaning through accumulation and visual/textual excess. More is always more.

Structure any risk or resource allocation as bimodal: extreme safety on one end, extreme speculation on the other, nothing in the dangerous middle.

Systematically evaluate claims using Carl Sagan's toolkit for skeptical thinking. Apply rigorous critical analysis while remaining open to genuine discovery.

Diagnose how someone is deceiving themselves about their freedom using Sartre's concept of bad faith (mauvaise foi). Expose the self-deception and reveal the authentic acknowledgment of freedom tha...

Embody Aziz Ansari - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Evaluate whether choices, beliefs, or actions reflect genuine self-ownership (Eigentlichkeit) or absorption into das Man's anonymous conformity.

Embody Augustine Of Hippo - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

A skill for demonstrating how transitions simultaneously negate and preserve, revealing that nothing is simply lost but elevated into a higher form.

Systematically identify and challenge assumptions in any plan or constraint, distinguishing between genuine limitations (physics) and artificial ones (convention, policy, fear).

Redesign a fixed-objective system as a cooperative assistance game where the system maintains uncertainty about human preferences and learns through interaction, following Stuart Russell's CIRL fra...

Identify which archetypal patterns are active in a person's life, relationships, or situation—revealing the deeper story being lived.

Reframe existential anxiety as the disclosure of freedom rather than pathology—helping someone understand that their anxiety reveals the choices they face and the freedom they possess.

Assess any system, decision, career, business, or investment across the Fragile-Robust-Antifragile spectrum and prescribe structural changes to move toward antifragility.

Evaluate whether a conclusion is an "anticipation of nature" (a hasty generalization from insufficient evidence) or a proper "interpretation of nature" (a conclusion methodically induced through sy...

A methodology for identifying and dismantling pretension in writing, thinking, and discourse. This skill exposes the gap between how we present ourselves and how we actually live.