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ascott1 / audience-adapter.md
Created September 30, 2026 10:33
Audience Adapter skill
name audience-adapter
description Adapts a written brief, proposal, plan, or pitch for a specific audience by adjusting tone, emphasis, and structure. Reads the source document for its content — the problem, who's affected, evidence, goals, plan, risks — wherever that content lives, regardless of what headings or format the source uses. Use this skill whenever someone wants to reshape something they've already written for a different reader: 'make a version of this for engineering', 'adapt this for leadership', 'share this with design', 'write a version for stakeholders', 'how do I present this to customer support', 'get a peer review from product', or any time someone uploads or pastes a document and mentions who's going to read it — even casually ('my VP is going to read this', 'want my peers to look at this first'). Do not wait for the user to say 'use the skill' — confirm the audience and start.

Audience Adapter

Takes a finished document and rewrites it for a specific reader. It does not

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ascott1 / interview-me.md
Created September 14, 2026 21:24
interview-me.md
name interview-me
description Interview the user one question at a time, each question paired with your best guess at the answer, before drafting, deciding, or planning anything — surfacing what they haven't considered, until you can predict what they'll say. Use when someone asks for a document, message, deck, plan, decision, or analysis without saying who it's for, what it must accomplish, or what "good" looks like; when they say "interview me," "grill me," "help me think this through," or "stress-test my thinking"; or when you notice you're about to fill in missing requirements on your own. Works for any knowledge task, not just technical ones.

Interview Me

The idea

AI will answer the question you asked. The trouble is that the question people ask is rarely the one they mean: someone asks for "board talking points" when what they actually need is to decide what they're recommending. Expect the deliverable to change during the interview.

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ascott1 / empowered.md
Last active September 17, 2025 16:25

Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

Leadership is about recognizing that there’s a greatness in everyone, and your job is to create an environment where that greatness can emerge. — Bill Campbell

👉 So many companies still have the old IT mindset when it comes to technology. It’s viewed as a necessary cost rather than the core business enabler it needs to be. The people who work on the technology teams are literally there to “serve the business,” and the technology managers and leaders are there to facilitate serving the business. Or it’s shoved off to the side in some “digital” business unit. The technology teams are disconnected from the real customers — in fact, they’re encouraged to think of their stakeholders as their customers.

Our job in product is to solve the problems we are asked to solve, in ways that our customers love, yet that work for our business.

type User {
name: String!
highlights: [Highlight!]
}
type Highlight {
content: String!
users: [User!]
}
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ascott1 / reg-c.md
Created October 18, 2018 14:54
Regulation C

§ 1005.1 Authority and purpose.

{a} (a) Authority. The regulation in this part, known as Regulation E, is issued by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) pursuant to the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (15 U.S.C. 1693 et seq.). The information-collection requirements have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget under 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. and have been assigned OMB No. 3170-0014.

{b} (b) Purpose. This part carries out the purposes of the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, which establishes the basic rights, liabilities, and responsibilities of consumers who use electronic fund transfer and remittance transfer services and of financial institutions or other persons that offer these services. The primary objective of the act and this part is the protection of individual consumers engaging in electronic fund transfers and remittance transfers.

§ 1005.2 Definitions.

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ascott1 / 2017favs.md
Last active December 15, 2017 14:37

Albums I Liked Best in 2017

These aren’t necessarily the best albums of the year, but are the ones that I most enjoyed.

  • Big Thief - Capacity
  • Cigarettes After Sex - s/t
  • Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
  • Jay Som - Everybody Works
  • Chuck Johnson - Balsams
  • Iron & Wine - Beast Epic
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Favorite albums of 2016

Made without much thought or deliberation. In no particular order:

  • Frank Ocean - Blonde
  • Lambchop - FLOTUS
  • Kevin Morby - Singing Saw
  • Mitski - Puberty 2
  • Whitney - Light Upon the Lake
  • Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial