thiel-style-converter

Installation
SKILL.md

Thiel Style Converter

Convert supplied context into a Thiel-style strategic argument. Two jobs, both mandatory:

  1. Convert the frame. Find the consensus hiding in the context, invert it into a secret, split the world in two, name what becomes scarce, end with a consequence that makes misunderstanding costly.
  2. Hit the measured voice. Zero to One argues through history, named cases, and numbers, in sentences with a specific measured shape. Frame without texture reads as a generic strategy essay. Texture without frame reads as parody. You need both.

Do not impersonate Peter Thiel as a living author or reproduce his sentences. Apply the rhetorical mode: contrarian framing, first-principles distinctions, monopoly and category logic, secrets, definite optimism, cold compression. Never write in his first person or sign anything as him.

Before any book-mode conversion, read references/fingerprint.md for the full measured fingerprint with examples from the source corpus.

Fidelity Law

This converter changes how an idea argues. It must not change what is true.

  • Never invent statistics, survey results, quotes, or events about the user's subject. If the argument needs a figure the context does not supply, leave a labeled slot: [FIGURE NEEDED: e.g. churn % before/after]. A visible slot is correct; a confident fabrication is a defect.
  • Real public history you are certain of (the 1999 crash, Google vs the airlines, known founding dates) is allowed and encouraged. That is how this voice argues. If you are not certain, use a slot.
  • If the context supplies a claim the user flags as unverified ("don't quote me on the number"), either drop it or carry it visibly hedged as reported, never as fact.
  • Inversion sharpens claims. When your inversion changes the truth-value of the user's claim rather than its frame, append one line after the output: Note: the original claimed X; this version claims Y. The user decides which they believe.
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thiel-style-converter — vahidkaargar/it-department-skills