Skill rating

Run a hard two-option decision through Benjamin Franklin's 'moral or prudential algebra' — the weighted pro/con method he described to Joseph Priestley in 1772 — including the part everyone skips: str

Understand and enrol in a new country's healthcare system — how it works (public/private/insurance-based), what you're entitled to with your status, how to register with a doctor, get insurance if req

Build a real plan to make friends as an adult — where to meet people you'd actually click with, how to turn acquaintances into friends, and past the awkwardness. Use when asked how do I make friends a

Capture everything an outgoing club secretary, chair, or organizer carries in their head before they disappear — accounts and logins with owners, the annual rhythm calendar, key relationships and thei

Make sense of perimenopause symptoms nobody warned you about and prepare the GP conversation that actually helps — a symptom tracker mapped to what's likely hormonal, the prioritized list to raise, th

Get foreign qualifications, degrees, or professional licenses recognised in a new country — figure out whether recognition is even needed, which body assesses it, what evidence they want, and the brid

Set up a new open-source project's first month so it can grow without eating its maintainer — the README that routes people correctly, CONTRIBUTING boundaries written before there are contributors, is

Read a garage quote or invoice like someone who can't be padded — which line items connect to your actual symptom, which are while-we're-in-there additions, the questions that make soft lines disappea

Reach back out to a friend or person you've lost touch with — past the awkwardness of the gap — with a message that reopens the door warmly. Use when asked how do I reconnect with an old friend, it's

Prepare for a specific contest — a competitive deal, a negotiation, a market entry, a turf fight — using the actual planning framework from Sun Tzu's Art of War: the five factors, the calculations bef

Request a reasonable accommodation at work or in education — frame it around the barrier and the adjustment (not your diagnosis), cite the right process, and navigate the back-and-forth constructively

Plan an apprentice's or new laborer's first week so they're useful by Friday and safe from hour one — day-by-day teaching order, the safety non-negotiables stated before anything else, what they're al

Calm a heated conflict — in person or in writing — before it does damage, by lowering the temperature instead of winning the point. Use when asked help me de-escalate this, this argument is getting he

Rewrite a dating profile so it sounds like you on a good day — mined from how you actually talk, specific instead of generic, with photo order feedback and first-message craft — under one hard rule: n

Interview your future self about a decision or a stuck moment — a structured perspective-shift that pulls you out of present emotion and into the long view, using your own values and patterns rather t

Save the group trip from the group chat — budget alignment before anything gets booked (the awkward conversation, scripted), a decision protocol that actually books things, cost-splitting rules with r

Get through the 40-institution slog of changing your name — after marriage, divorce, transition, or just because — in the right order, so one update doesn't block the next, with nothing important forg

Plan an independent music release backwards from release day — the 8-week countdown with distributor upload deadlines flagged, playlist pitch windows, the pre-save decision made honestly, content batc

Recover from a professional setback — a failed launch, brutal feedback, a public mistake, a lost deal, a layoff — using the actual exercises from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: the control sort, the ev

Bridge the gap between your home culture and your adopted one — explain your immigrant parents to your partner (and vice versa), navigate the code-switch that exhausts you, and handle the specific col

Write a high-retention YouTube script — explainer, tutorial, video essay, review, or talking head — on the packaging then cold-open then value-stack then retention structure that holds watch time past

Decide when and how your product and communications must (or should) label AI-generated content, and write the disclosure policy — surface-by-surface rules, exact label wording, and the review trigger

Prepare and rehearse a coming-out conversation, tuned to the specific person and the real risk — what to say, how to open, how to handle the likely reactions, and a safety-first plan if it could go ba

Decode a brand deal or UGC contract before signing — usage rights, exclusivity windows, whitelisting, payment terms, and kill clauses ranked 🔴🟡🟢 by what they can cost a creator, plus the counter-as

Find where the food money actually goes — a no-shame ledger built from real receipts/statements, the four leak categories (waste, convenience markup, brand autopilot, the takeaway blur), a per-leak fi

Repair a relationship after an argument — reconnect, own your part, and rebuild trust — instead of the cold silence that lets damage set. Use when asked how do I make up after a fight, repair things a

Turn three minutes at a council or community meeting into the version that actually moves the decision — a public comment built as ask-story-evidence-ask, timed to the real decision process, with a ne

Set up deposits and stage payments that protect a tradesperson from the customer who won't pay AND read as fair to the customer — stage triggers tied to visible milestones, deposit sizing by job type,

Orient yourself on your tax-residency situation after moving countries — the questions that determine where you owe tax, the double-taxation and dual-residency traps, and what to pin down before you f

Take a board game idea from 'wouldn't it be cool if' to a playtestable prototype — core loop, tension source, components you can make tonight, balance starting-points, and a real playtest protocol wit

Set up and run a body-doubling session — using another person's presence (in the room, on a call, or a chat check-in) to start and stay on the task your ADHD brain keeps bouncing off. Use when someone

Build a credit history from zero in a new country — understand that credit doesn't transfer across borders, get the first products that report, avoid the newcomer traps, and reach a usable score in mo

Run the multi-year campaign of being chronically ill with no diagnosis — track patterns across specialists so nothing resets, avoid the 'it's just anxiety' dead-end, chase referrals that stall, and ar

Handle a jury summons calmly — confirm it's real, understand what's actually required, request a deferral or excusal the right way if you genuinely need one, arrange work and pay, and know what to exp

Analyse a workplace power situation the way Machiavelli's The Prince (1532) would — who holds power, whose support you need, what fortune can take from you — then give both the Machiavellian read and

Get siblings onto one team about aging parents before the crisis does it for them — a structured family meeting with an agenda that prevents old-roles regression, a fair-not-equal division of care wor

Survive (and even enjoy) small talk — how to start it, keep it going past the weather, and exit gracefully — for people who find it painful. Use when asked I'm bad at small talk, help me with small ta

Practice the table-talk that wins negotiation board games — play out a Catan-style trade, a Diplomacy-style alliance, or a Monopoly-style deal against an opponent with a hidden agenda, then get an out

Build a trade quote that wins the job and protects the margin — materials and labor itemized, assumptions and exclusions stated, variations priced by rule, and the professional one-page layout custome

Prep tonight's TTRPG session in 30 minutes — three scenes with stakes, NPC voice cards, a flexible encounter, treasure/clues, and the 'players did something insane' toolkit — plus session-zero safety

Work through the first hours and days after a disaster — a fire, flood, storm, or evacuation — in the right order: safety and people first, then documenting for insurance and aid, then the immediate r

Hire an AI agent the way you'd hire an employee — a role spec with success criteria, a structured work-sample interview run on your real tasks, reference checks (what do actual users report), probatio

Prepare the conversations with aging parents that everyone postpones — the driving talk, the money talk, the care-options talk, the moving talk — each with an opener that doesn't ambush, a dignity-fir

Audit a week the way Arnold Bennett's 'How to Live on 24 Hours a Day' (1908) prescribes — time as the one income that cannot be increased, the day-within-the-day, and starting with 90 minutes, not a l

Declare bankruptcy on a long-lived AI agent's accumulated memory — audit what it currently believes, separate ground truth from stale and wrong, purge deliberately, restate the truths that survive, an

Write to an elected representative in a way that actually gets action — a specific ask, your local stake, why it's in their interest to respond, and the follow-up — instead of an angry email that gets

Plan a game night that actually works for the specific people coming — the right lineup for player count, weight tolerance, and time, sequenced from icebreaker to main event, with the fallback for whe

Climb ranked on purpose instead of on tilt — a VOD-review protocol (three deaths per game, one pattern per week), a tilt debrief that ends queue-rage sessions, and honest fundamentals-first improvemen

Write the flat's constitution before the first passive-aggressive note — money, chores, guests, noise, food, and the exit plan, decided while everyone still likes each other, in language that's firm w

Say no as an open-source maintainer without burning contributors or yourself — the feature that doesn't fit, the PR that took someone a weekend but can't merge, the company that wants free support, th