Skill rating

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

Get through the first year after losing someone — the birthdays, holidays, and ordinary triggers that ambush you — with a gentle plan for the hard days instead of being blindsided. Use when asked how

Check whether a specific venue — a restaurant, office, event space, Airbnb, clinic — will actually work for your access needs, before you commit, with the exact questions to ask and the red flags in t

Assemble the grab-and-go document and information kit for a disaster — the IDs, insurance, medical, financial, and property records (physical copies + secure digital backups) you'd need to prove who y

Plan around flare days before they ambush you — spot your early warning signs, pre-build the reduced 'flare mode' version of your life, prepare the cancellation and support scripts in advance, and set

Get an open-source repo's issue backlog from 400-and-drowning to triaged-and-honest in one pass — a label taxonomy that encodes decisions, batch triage rules you can apply in seconds per issue, saved

Plan for an extended power outage — keeping medically-essential devices running, food safe, the home warm or cool enough, and communication alive — before the lights go out, with the special focus on

Write a product demo script that tells a value story instead of a feature tour — the buyer's-workflow storyline, the golden path rehearsed with fallbacks, the wow moment placed early, and the demo-dea

Stress-test a proposed org change before announcing it — simulate who gains, who loses, who blocks, where friction erupts in the first 90 days, and run the memo leak test: how does this land when it l

Publish 'how to work with me' as a literal API spec — endpoints (what to ask me for and what you'll get back), rate limits (meeting and interrupt tolerance), error codes (what happens when you surpris

Work out which permits a project actually needs and the order to get them — building/renovation, business licensing, events, signage, home businesses — so you don't build first and discover the permit

Structure pricing strategy decisions, packaging options, and tier design for SaaS and digital products. Use when reviewing or setting pricing, designing pricing tiers, evaluating freemium vs paid, or

Write a sealed memo to your future self or successor — the honest state of things, falsifiable predictions with confidence levels, and the advice you suspect they'll need — with an open-on date and a

Decode a used-car listing before you drive an hour to see it — what the seller's phrasing is hiding, the history-check items that matter, a test-drive and inspection checklist ordered by cost-of-miss,

Work out how to actually vote in a specific election — am I registered, what's the deadline, how do I vote (in person / mail / early), what ID do I need, and what's on my ballot — with everything rout

Offboard an AI agent the way you'd offboard an employee — inventory what it knew and touched, export then purge its memory, revoke every credential and access grant, and write the handover for its suc

Get your attention back with a 30-day protocol that assumes you'll break it — a screen-time ledger without moralizing, friction engineering (what to delete, grayscale, where the phone sleeps), planned

Figure out which disasters and emergencies your specific location actually faces — and the concrete prep each one demands — so your readiness targets real risks instead of generic ones. Use when someo

Strips AI writing patterns from text and rewrites it to sound genuinely human — removing the statistical defaults, then adding earned voice calibrated to genre (opinion pieces get a person's voice; do

Report a public hazard or code problem to the authority that can actually fix it — a pothole, broken streetlight, illegal dump, unsafe building, code violation, blocked drain — with the right departme

Sell secondhand like someone who's done it 500 times — honest condition grading, comps-based pricing with a floor and an anchor, listing titles built from real search terms, photo checklists, and offe

Figure out whether 'the ick' about someone you're dating is a real incompatibility, a genuine red flag, or an anxious/avoidant self-sabotage pattern worth pushing through — by interrogating the specif

Write the band agreement before the money or the breakup arrives — who owns the songs, how money splits (writing vs performing distinguished), who owns the name, what happens when someone quits, and t

Run a tabletop drill of a voice-clone or deepfake fraud attempt — the 'CEO needs this wire today' call — against your actual approval process, before a real attacker does, then debrief the tells and f

Build an emergency go-bag tailored to your actual household and your most likely local hazards — not a generic list — covering the people, pets, medications, documents, and hazard-specific items you'd

Write the failure story of your year, relationship, move, or big life bet in advance — imagine it's a year later and it went wrong, tell that story vividly, then mine it for the real risks and the che

Treat neurodivergent masking as a daily energy budget — audit what passing as neurotypical actually costs you, where the spend is worth it, where you can safely drop the mask, and how to plan a heavy-

Build a 5-minute teach script for any board game so the table starts playing instead of listening — theme first, goal second, a turn third, exceptions only when they come up. Use when someone says 'ho

Harden a vibe-coded app before strangers use it — the audit for prototypes built fast with AI: exposed secrets, missing auth checks, unvalidated input, data with no deletion path, and the five embarra

Set up the essentials in the right order after moving to a new country — the ID/registration, bank account, phone, address, and social/tax number that unlock each other — so you don't get stuck in the

Write a letter to the people you love, to be read later — the things you'd want them to know, the stories only you hold, the permission and the love that outlive you. Use when someone says 'help me wr

Build an electronic press kit that bookers and blogs actually read — the three-sentence bio that isn't 'genre-defying', a one-page layout with streaming numbers presented honestly, the photo and live-

Figure out the real social dynamics of a situation — the unspoken mood, who holds influence, what's actually going on beneath the surface — so you respond to what's real, not just what's said. Use whe

Walk a space — home, office, commute, classroom — and find the sensory landmines quietly draining or overloading you, with fixes ranked by cost and impact. Use when someone says 'my office wrecks me a