JoelLewis
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- ▌ Using Skills · joellewis-skill-libraryInvoke before responding to any non-trivial task—enforces the 1% rule that if any skill has even a 1% chance of improving output, it must be invoked first.
- ▌ One Pager · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when compressing a complex strategy or analysis into a strictly one-page narrative—enforces Pyramid SCQ structure and Orwell word-budget discipline.
- ▌ Writing Skills · joellewis-skill-libraryEnforces a test-driven approach to skill authoring — defining what a skill must achieve before writing content to prevent hallucinated utility or ungrounded advice. Use when creating new skills, editing existing ones, or verifying skill quality before deployment.
- ▌ Pitch Deck · joellewis-skill-libraryBuilds investor pitches and funding proposals that prove a 'secret' through data and narrative — answering 'Why Now?' and 'Why Us?' using Thiel's definite optimism framework. Use when creating pitch decks, internal presentations, or funding requests.
- ▌ Getting Started · joellewis-skill-libraryUse at the start of any session or when a task has no clear skill assignment—routes the request to the correct skill family and establishes workflow chain context.
- ▌ Prd Writing · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when translating a product vision into engineering requirements—enforces the Working Backwards PR/FAQ method, requiring a customer-facing press release before any technical spec.
- ▌ Prompt Optimizer · joellewis-skill-libraryEngineers prompts into clear, structured, model-optimized instructions using the 4-D methodology (Deconstruct, Diagnose, Develop, Deliver) with architecture-specific tuning. Use when a draft prompt, instruction set, or agent skill description needs refinement for clarity or improved performance.
- ▌ Team Builder · joellewis-skill-libraryCreates high-trust, high-performance team environments through structural mechanisms for psychological safety, shared consciousness, and empowered execution. Use when building team culture, onboarding new teams, diagnosing team dysfunction, or improving collaboration.
- ▌ Business Case · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when justifying investment, resource allocation, or strategic decisions with financial and logical reasoning to ensure positive ROI and alignment with long-term goals.
- ▌ Buyer Persona · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when defining target users, customers, or audience segments to ensure they are grounded in real customer jobs rather than arbitrary demographics.
- ▌ First 90 Days · joellewis-skill-libraryProvides a structured framework for new-role transitions — accelerating credibility, avoiding the Savior Trap, and reaching the breakeven point where value contribution exceeds consumption. Use when starting a new job, joining a new team, or taking on expanded responsibilities.
- ▌ Hiring Talent · joellewis-skill-libraryDesigns rigorous hiring processes using structured behavioral interviews and work sample tests, replacing gut feel with data-driven evaluation of energy, obsession, and persistence. Use when building interview loops, evaluating candidates, writing job descriptions, or designing talent strategy.
- ▌ Copy Editor · joellewis-skill-libraryPerforms line-level prose editing — pruning adverbs, activating voice, cutting redundancy, and enforcing parallel structure for concision and readability. Use when revising any written content, even if the request is just 'make this better,' 'tighten this up,' or 'clean up the writing.'
- ▌ Market Context · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when validating market timing, structural forces, or distribution moats before committing strategic resources—focuses on macro context, not individual competitor teardowns.
- ▌ Feedback Coach · joellewis-skill-libraryStructures performance feedback using Radical Candor (challenge directly, care personally) and identity-safe framing to ensure feedback drives growth rather than defensiveness. Use when giving or receiving feedback, conducting 1:1s, preparing performance reviews, or coaching developmental conversations.
- ▌ Dialogue Craft · joellewis-skill-libraryWrites and refines dialogue that serves plot and reveals character through subtext, intention, and behavioral exchange — applying McKee's subtext principle and Sorkin's intention-and-obstacle model. Use when dialogue feels flat, expository, or 'on the nose.'
- ▌ Problem Framing · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when beginning analytical or strategic tasks, facing undefined problems, or facing analysis paralysis—requires explicit problem definition before proceeding.
- ▌ Rapport Builder · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when building trust with people who don't yet know or trust you — new teams, new roles, hostile audiences, or strained relationships where the goal is connection before any ask. Applies Tactical Empathy through mirroring, labeling, and belonging cues. Not for confrontation (use difficult-conversations) or giving feedback (use feedback-coach).
- ▌ Devils Advocate · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when a proposal has unanimous support or relies on a single high-impact assumption—constructs the strongest possible counter-argument (Steel Man) and runs a Pre-Mortem.
- ▌ Ownership Coach · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when a team is deflecting blame to external factors or a leader is micromanaging—shifts from permission-seeking to intent-stating using Willink's Extreme Ownership and Marquet's Leader-Leader model.
- ▌ Learning Accelerator · joellewis-skill-libraryCompresses domain mastery using Ultralearning and Metacognition principles — moving from passive consumption to active production through directness, retrieval practice, and feedback loops. Use when learning a new domain rapidly, building a study plan, or preparing for a high-stakes professional skill.
- ▌ Mental Model Library · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when a problem spans multiple disciplines or when single-domain thinking has produced stale analysis—applies Munger's latticework of mental models across physics, biology, and psychology.
- ▌ Assumption Audit · joellewis-skill-libraryUse as the mandatory evidence gate before signing off on any strategy, PRD, or business case—audits every key claim against documented sources and assigns calibrated probabilities.
- ▌ Strategy Clarity · joellewis-skill-library bundleUse when an organization needs strategic clarity — identifying where to play, how to win, and whether the position is defensible. Composes Wardley evolution mapping, Lafley's choice cascade, Helmer's 7 Powers, and Working Backwards based on what's already decided.
- ▌ Fiction Architect · joellewis-skill-libraryDesigns plot structure and story arcs using McKee's value turns, Campbell's monomyth, and Sanderson's Promise/Progress/Payoff model to ensure causal integrity and emotional resonance. Use when constructing narratives, outlining novels, or diagnosing why a story feels broken.
- ▌ Executive Briefing · joellewis-skill-libraryCrafts senior leadership communications that deliver judgment rather than activity reports, connecting directly to organizational strategy and driving clear decisions. Use when presenting to board members, C-suite executives, or senior leadership — including status updates, recommendations, and escalations.
- ▌ Stakeholder Review · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when a deliverable needs structured stakeholder sign-off before finalization—runs the pre-read, feedback-type alignment, and conflict-resolution protocol.
- ▌ Resonance Engine · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when writing is structurally clear but emotionally flat—adds turning points, sensory metaphors, and change hooks using Storr's brain-change model and Hopkins' specificity techniques.
- ▌ Influence Architect · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when you need to act on a known political landscape — building coalitions, persuading specific people, or maneuvering to get a decision approved. Assumes you already know who the stakeholders are (if not, use stakeholder-discovery first to map them).
- ▌ Decision Frameworks · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when choosing between mutually exclusive strategic paths or building a repeatable decision process—constructs Decision Matrices with probability estimates and runs Pre-Mortems.
- ▌ Platform Strategist · joellewis-skill-libraryAnalyzes platform business models by distinguishing Aggregators from Platforms, mapping network effects, and identifying when to externalize internal primitives as ecosystem growth engines. Use when evaluating platform dynamics, designing marketplace strategy, or analyzing aggregation and network effects.
- ▌ Competitive Analysis · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when performing a structured teardown of a specific competitor's activity system, moat, or vulnerability profile—requires at least one named rival to analyze.
- ▌ World Building Logic · joellewis-skill-libraryEngineers internally consistent fictional worlds using Brand's Pace Layers for social structure and Sanderson's Laws of Magic for system constraints. Use when building settings, designing magic or tech systems, or auditing a world for logical contradictions.
- ▌ Memo Stress Tester · joellewis-skill-libraryStress-tests business documents for logical gaps, unproven assertions, and structural weakness using the Amazon narrative standard, Minto's pyramid logic, and the Completed Staff Work doctrine. Use when evaluating memos, proposals, strategy docs, or any document headed to executive review.
- ▌ Stakeholder Discovery · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when you need to map who has power, who will be affected, and what motivates each party — produces a stakeholder map as an analytical artifact. This skill identifies and categorizes stakeholders; it does not persuade or influence them (use influence-architect for that).
- ▌ Negotiation Tactician · joellewis-skill-libraryTransforms negotiations into structured discovery using tactical empathy, interest analysis, and calibrated questions from Voss, Fisher, and Malhotra. Use when preparing for or conducting any negotiation — deals, contracts, salary, partnerships, or vendor terms.
- ▌ Operational Excellence · joellewis-skill-libraryDesigns high-leverage execution systems that translate strategic choices into measurable output — building mechanisms (not intentions), managing controllable inputs, and optimizing team topology for flow. Use when designing OKR frameworks, operational processes, or execution rhythms.
- ▌ Difficult Conversations · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when confronting a specific counterpart about a breach, violation, or adversarial behavior — situations where trust is already broken and the goal is accountability or resolution, not relationship-building. Not for giving developmental feedback (use feedback-coach) or building trust with new people (use rapport-builder).
- ▌ Character Vulnerability · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when a character feels flat, too competent, or unrelatable—identifies the Sacred Flaw (Storr's Theory of Control) and dials the Three Sliders (Sanderson) to create earned vulnerability.
- ▌ Non Fiction Precision · joellewis-skill-libraryUse when a document's argument buries its conclusion or has logical gaps—applies Minto's Pyramid (Answer First, MECE grouping) and Orwell's concision rules to rebuild structure.
- ▌ Scientific Advertising · joellewis-skill-libraryApplies Hopkins' testing rigor and Ogilvy's brand-building discipline to write advertising copy where every line justifies its cost through traced results. Use when writing ads, marketing materials, landing pages, or any evidence-based persuasive content.