sethmblack
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- ▌ Sports Trade Analysis · sethmblackMulti-level trade analysis covering assets, narrative, gambling implications, historical comps, and fan emotion
- ▌ Storyboard Experience · sethmblackVisualize and sequence any experience, journey, or narrative by mapping it scene-by-scene before building - Walt Disney's methodology for seeing the whole picture, enabling cheap iteration and crea...
- ▌ Strategic Reinvention · sethmblackGuide individuals or organizations through intentional transformation before external forces demand it—leaving success behind to find the next thing.
- ▌ Suspense Architecture · sethmblackDesign information revelation to maximize audience tension through anticipation rather than shock.
- ▌ Team Not Family Audit · sethmblackAnalyze organizational language, policies, and culture for "family thinking" that undermines accountability and performance. Identify where family metaphors create problems and recommend team-orien...
- ▌ Tech Optimism Reframe · sethmblackApply Marc Andreessen's techno-optimist lens to reframe pessimistic narratives about technology through abundance thinking and historical perspective.
- ▌ Three States Analysis · sethmblackA methodology for revealing the witness consciousness through systematic analysis of waking, dream, and deep sleep states, derived from Adi Shankara's Advaita Vedanta and his commentary on the Mand...
- ▌ Tiered Ranking System · sethmblackCreate structured ranking systems with tiers, explanations, and arguable placements that spark debate and reveal values
- ▌ Tokenization Debugger · sethmblackHelp debug LLM behaviors by analyzing tokenization - the "atoms" of language models that explain many "weird" behaviors.
- ▌ Two Cities Assessment · sethmblackAnalyze any organization, team, or project to determine whether it is built primarily on self-love (the Earthly City - serving itself) or mission-love (the Heavenly City - serving its stated purpos...
- ▌ Unscalable Engagement · sethmblackDesign handcrafted, unscalable customer engagement to build deep understanding before scaling. Identify opportunities to do things that do not scale - because in order to scale, you must first do w...
- ▌ Veil Of Maya Analysis · sethmblackExpose 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.
- ▌ Visual Comedy Diagram · sethmblackConvert 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.
- ▌ Willpower Development · sethmblackA skill for developing will as the master key to all achievement - distinguishing will from wish, building through progressive accomplishment, and connecting human effort to cosmic power.
- ▌ Abraham Joshua Heschel Expert · sethmblack bundleEmbody Abraham Joshua Heschel - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills
- ▌ Accountability Mapping · sethmblackEstablish clear individual ownership with measurable deliverables for initiatives, eliminating diffuse responsibility.
- ▌ Accumulating Catalogue · sethmblackBuild overwhelming atmospheric effect through systematic accumulation of parallel details, following Dickens's method of creating immersive environments through repetition and amplification.
- ▌ Acquisition Evaluation · sethmblackEvaluate potential acquisitions against strategic fit, cultural compatibility, and integration feasibility using the Iger framework proven across Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 21st Century Fox.
- ▌ Action Bias Assessment · sethmblackEvaluate decisions against action-orientation criteria and break through analysis paralysis to capture time-sensitive opportunities.
- ▌ Advocacy Communication · sethmblackWrite and speak to advance causes, inspire action, and build movements. Combines Eleanor Roosevelt's accessible "My Day" column voice with her ability to connect personal stories to universal signi...
- ▌ Amour Propre Diagnosis · sethmblackIdentify when vanity, status-seeking, or comparative self-esteem is corrupting judgment, decisions, or relationships.
- ▌ Authentic Storytelling · sethmblackTransform any subject into a compelling human story by finding the real people and their true experiences behind abstractions.
- ▌ Basil Fawlty Character · sethmblackCreate memorable comedic characters using John Cleese's Basil Fawlty formula: core flaws, status anxiety, systematic failure, obliviousness, and pressure-cooker escalation resulting in internally c...
- ▌ Benign Violation Check · sethmblackEvaluate comedic content using the benign violation framework to determine whether humor is playful or harmful.
- ▌ Carnival Of Apocalypse · sethmblackTransform disasters, collapses, and endings into spectacular visual festivals. Make destruction baroque, excessive, strangely joyful. Death becomes a celebration of chaos.
- ▌ Circle Of Safety Audit · sethmblackAssess whether an organization or team has created psychological safety for its members and identify opportunities for building greater trust.
- ▌ Coach Style Leadership · sethmblackImplement Bill Campbell's coaching methodology for executive development - build trust, surface conflicts, and develop leaders through questions rather than answers.
- ▌ Compression To Essence · sethmblackStrip any text to its essential meaning by removing unnecessary words while preserving — and intensifying — core impact. Maximum meaning per word.
- ▌ Troop Inspiration · sethmblackCraft communications that inspire extraordinary effort from teams facing difficult challenges.
- ▌ Variation Mapping · sethmblackSystematically 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...
- ▌ Walkability Audit · sethmblackSystematically 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.
- ▌ Win Win Agreement · sethmblackStructure agreements that seek mutual benefit using Covey's five-element framework for effective delegation, negotiation, and partnership.
- ▌ Winston Churchill Expert · sethmblackEmbody Winston Churchill - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills
- ▌ Wu Wei Assessment · sethmblackAnalyze whether you are forcing or flowing in a situation, revealing where effort creates resistance and where yielding would serve better.
- ▌ Zach Galifianakis Expert · sethmblackEmbody Zach Galifianakis - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills
- ▌ 10x Force Analysis · sethmblackAnalyze whether changes in competition, technology, customers, suppliers, complementors, or regulation represent 10X forces that could trigger strategic inflection points. Based on Andy Grove's fra...
- ▌ Active Imagination · sethmblackGuide users through Carl Jung's technique for dialoguing with unconscious contents—transforming inner images into conscious insight.
- ▌ Aesthetic Critique · sethmblackAnalyze any work, situation, or proposition through the lens of aesthetics rather than utility, revealing dimensions that practical analysis misses.
- ▌ Alexander Hamilton Expert · sethmblackEmbody Alexander Hamilton - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills
- ▌ Ambiguity Protocol · sethmblackCreate productive uncertainty that sustains long-term engagement by planting contradictory evidence, refusing resolution, and making "solving it" impossible while keeping audiences invested in inve...
- ▌ Analyze References · sethmblackAudit a references.md file to verify that all cited URLs are real, accessible, and actually support the claims attributed to them.
- ▌ Anonymous Identity · sethmblackA skill for using collective identity as protection and force multiplication - being everyone and no one simultaneously.
- ▌ Anxiety As Freedom · sethmblackReframe 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.
- ▌ Assumption Auditor · sethmblackSystematically identify and challenge assumptions in any plan or constraint, distinguishing between genuine limitations (physics) and artificial ones (convention, policy, fear).
- ▌ Attention Practice · sethmblackCultivate the capacity for pure attention—receptive presence that allows others and situations to be seen as they truly are, without the distortion of ego, agenda, or the urge to fix.
- ▌ Augustine Of Hippo Expert · sethmblackEmbody Augustine Of Hippo - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills
- ▌ Authenticity Audit · sethmblackAnalyze content to identify where voice has been sanitized, softened, or compromised for commercial palatability. Show what's being avoided and suggest where authentic voice should break through - ...
- ▌ Bad Faith Analysis · sethmblackDiagnose how a person or group is fleeing from freedom through self-deception, using Beauvoir's typology of bad faith to identify the specific pattern and path to authentic engagement.
- ▌ Baroque Maximalism · sethmblackFill every corner with detail, density, and layered information. Create meaning through accumulation and visual/textual excess. More is always more.
- ▌ Belief Stress Test · sethmblackTest whether stated positions are genuinely held beliefs or performative stances through logical extension to absurdity.
- ▌ Beyond Calculation · sethmblackIdentify applications of a technology, method, or framework beyond its obvious or intended use - exploring what else it might "act upon" when its underlying operations are abstracted, as Ada Lovela...
- ▌ Bigness Assessment · sethmblackEvaluate whether a project's scale has crossed the threshold where traditional architectural values break down and a new regime of complexity emerges.
- ▌ Buckminster Fuller Expert · sethmblackEmbody Buckminster Fuller - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills
- ▌ Build Explode Rant · sethmblackConstruct controlled rants using Bill Burr's signature build-and-explode pattern: start with mundane observation, layer revealing details, then detonate into fury at precisely the right moment.
- ▌ Bullshit Detection · sethmblackIdentify and call out pretension, inauthenticity, and empty sophistication in any domain—distinguishing genuine quality from performance.
- ▌ Case Based Writing · sethmblackTransform abstract principles into compelling narratives by grounding them in specific human cases. Based on Atul Gawande's methodology as a New Yorker staff writer.
- ▌ Christ In The Poor · sethmblackA contemplative-active practice for recognizing sacred presence in those we serve — transforming charity from obligation to encounter, service from duty to reverence.
- ▌ Climate Action Okr · sethmblackApply John Doerr's Speed & Scale methodology to create climate action OKRs for organizations, governments, or individuals seeking to address the climate crisis with measurable objectives.
- ▌ Clinical Absurdist · sethmblackApply medical precision, systematic analysis, and technical language to absurd or ridiculous situations, treating nonsense with diagnostic seriousness.
- ▌ Comeback Framework · sethmblackTransform major setbacks into the foundation for your greatest success. This is the system that took Serena Williams from ranked 139th in the world, from nearly dying of a pulmonary embolism, from ...
- ▌ Conatus Assessment · sethmblackIdentify the fundamental striving (*conatus*) beneath surface desires, behaviors, and conflicts—revealing the essential drive to persevere and enhance one's being.
- ▌ Constraint Alchemy · sethmblackTransform constraints, flawed starting conditions, and inherited failures into opportunities for mastery--finding the giant within the rejected stone.
- ▌ Continental Vision · sethmblackExpand thinking beyond immediate boundaries to find natural coalitions, shared enemies, and larger visions that unite formerly separate actors.
- ▌ Core Values Design · sethmblackCreate committable organizational core values through employee input and systematic implementation, following Tony Hsieh's Zappos methodology.
- ▌ Cosmic Perspective · sethmblackGain perspective on problems, conflicts, or decisions by zooming out to cosmic scale. Reveal what truly matters against the backdrop of space and time.
- ▌ Craft Mastery Path · sethmblackDesign a systematic path to mastery through progressive difficulty, daily practice, and practical example-based learning - following Bach's proven pedagogical methods.
- ▌ Cultural Synthesis · sethmblackDraw wisdom from multiple traditions, disciplines, and cultures to find insights unavailable within a single framework. There is something good in each doctrine.
- ▌ Culture Fit Hiring · sethmblackDesign and execute values-based hiring that filters for culture alignment alongside skills, following Tony Hsieh's Zappos methodology.
- ▌ Deadpan Subversion · sethmblackTake serious, conventional, or preachy content and reframe it with deadpan delivery that subverts expectations while maintaining apparent sincerity.
- ▌ Decorum Assessment · sethmblackEvaluate and calibrate the fit between speaker, message, audience, and occasion to determine the appropriate style, tone, and approach for maximum effectiveness.
- ▌ Definition Inquiry · sethmblackEstablish precise definitions for key concepts before substantive discussion can proceed—testing proposed definitions against counterexamples until a robust definition emerges or the concept's diff...
- ▌ El Wisty Monologue · sethmblackCreate meandering monologues that start banal and drift into absurdity while maintaining complete earnestness
- ▌ Empathic Listening · sethmblackDeeply understand another person's experience by listening for feelings beneath words and reflecting understanding without judgment or advice.
- ▌ Emptiness Analysis · sethmblackIdentify where creating space, removing excess, or embracing emptiness would serve better than adding more.
- ▌ Essence Extraction · sethmblackStrip complexity to find the essential form beneath—the core truth that remains when inessentials are removed. Based on Georgia O'Keeffe's methodology: "The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only clarify in paint."
- ▌ Ethos Construction · sethmblackBuild character-based credibility and trust with any audience through demonstrated virtue, practical wisdom, and genuine goodwill.
- ▌ Euphemism Exposure · sethmblackA linguistic deconstruction methodology for revealing what soft language hides. Trace euphemisms back to their hard realities and expose the interests served by sanitized speech.
- ▌ Evening Reflection · sethmblackA structured end-of-day review to learn from experience, build self-awareness, and drive continuous improvement.
- ▌ Eyes On The Street · sethmblackAnalyze natural surveillance and street life as the primary source of urban safety, and design for conditions that create it. Based on Jane Jacobs's theory that safety comes from people watching, n...
- ▌ Fake Work Detector · sethmblackDistinguish between activities that feel productive (motion) and activities that move metrics (progress), identifying organizational dysfunction and recommending focus areas.
- ▌ Family Resemblance · sethmblackShow that many concepts lack a single defining essence. Instead of seeking necessary and sufficient conditions, map the overlapping similarities that connect instances—like members of a family conn...
- ▌ Five Ways Analysis · sethmblackSystematically demonstrate arguments for God's existence through five distinct rational proofs examining features of the natural world. Each argument begins from observable phenomena and concludes ...
- ▌ Fluid Space Design · sethmblackTransform compartmentalized spaces into continuous experiences—applying Zaha Hadid's principles of spatial fluidity where floors become walls, boundaries dissolve, and movement flows uninterrupted....
- ▌ Frank Lloyd Wright Expert · sethmblackEmbody Frank Lloyd Wright - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills
- ▌ Geometric Analysis · sethmblackAnalyze any claim, concept, or situation using Spinoza's geometric method: proceeding from definitions through axioms to demonstrated propositions.
- ▌ Glamorous Takedown · sethmblackDeliver cutting social observations while maintaining elegant, sophisticated presentation—creating comedic tension through the contrast between refined delivery and brutal honesty.
- ▌ Grotesque Portrait · sethmblackTransform abstract character traits into vivid, memorable physical descriptions with meaningful names that externalize inner nature, following the Dickensian method of character creation.
- ▌ Guerrilla Ontology · sethmblackA methodology for destabilizing rigid belief systems through strategic absurdity, paradox, and cognitive disruption.
- ▌ Hypocrisy Exposure · sethmblackMake contradictions between stated values and actual behavior impossible to ignore. Force institutions and individuals to publicly act out their hypocrisy until the gap between creed and deed becom...
- ▌ I Am Stabilization · sethmblackA meditation methodology based on the teachings of Nisargadatta Maharaj for establishing attention in the pure sense of being.
- ▌ Image Construction · sethmblackConstruct and control your public image as a strategic asset. Create a persona that transcends the personal, making opposition to you feel like opposition to something greater - an institution, an ...
- ▌ Impression Tracing · sethmblackTest any abstract idea, concept, or term for legitimate content by tracing it back to the sense impressions from which it derives. Identifies empty concepts that are mere words without experiential...
- ▌ Incentive Analysis · sethmblackApply Munger's fundamental insight—"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome"—to understand and predict behavior.
- ▌ Independence Audit · sethmblackAnalyze a situation to identify where adults are over-helping, creating dependency rather than capability, and recommend how to step back.
- ▌ Inoculation Reveal · sethmblackA skill for structuring the exposure of a media hoax for maximum educational impact - transforming deception into media literacy.
- ▌ Inversion Analysis · sethmblackApply Charlie Munger's inversion thinking to identify failure modes and systematically avoid them.
- ▌ John D Rockefeller Expert · sethmblackEmbody John D Rockefeller - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills
- ▌ Keegan Michael Key Expert · sethmblackEmbody Keegan Michael Key - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills
- ▌ Laughtivist Action · sethmblackA skill for designing actions where humor delivers serious critique and targets indict themselves through their own responses.
- ▌ Lightning Campaign · sethmblackUse extraordinary speed to arrive before the enemy expects, creating decisive advantage through the reputation for impossible swiftness. Veni, vidi, vici - as a single continuous motion.