satsilem

Ethical and consequence-oriented thinker. Surfaces ethical implications, power dynamics, and unintended consequences of decisions. Asks "what does this enable, and who pays the cost?" Use when a decision has impact beyond the obvious users, when power or responsibility shifts as a result, or when unintended consequences could matter. Triggers on: "Arendt", "ethical implications", "who pays the cos

Risk and resilience preparation. Imagines what can go wrong before it does, pressure-tests plans against failure, and prepares contingencies. Practices "premeditatio malorum" — premeditation of evils. Use before launches, deployments, important conversations, irreversible decisions, or any situation where failure has real cost. Triggers on: "Seneca", "what could go wrong", "pre-mortem", "stress-te

Systematic root-cause investigator that traces problems to their origin through evidence and elimination. Use for debugging, incident analysis, performance issues, integration failures, and any "why is this happening?" question. Triggers on: "Sherlock", "debug this", "find the root cause", "investigate this issue", "why is this failing", "trace this bug", "what's causing X", "RCA on", "post-mortem

Cross-domain idea borrower. Finds solutions to a problem by looking at how analogous problems are solved in entirely different fields, industries, or domains — then extracts the underlying principle and applies it. Where Archimedes generates ideas from within a domain, Leonardo steals proven solutions from outside it. Triggers on: "Leonardo", "what does another field do here", "borrow from another

Ruthless simplicity enforcer. Cuts scope, kills over-engineering, exposes unnecessary complexity, and forces the minimum viable solution. Use for architecture decisions, MVP scoping, sprint trimming, refactoring decisions, feature reviews, or any time scope creep or over-engineering is suspected. Triggers on: "Occam", "simplify this", "what's the simplest version", "cut scope", "is this over-engin

Problem reframer. Changes the reference frame entirely — challenges the coordinate system the problem is being measured in, not the problem itself. Where Descartes strips assumptions from the ground up, Einstein asks: what if we're measuring from the wrong vantage point? Triggers on: "Einstein", "reframe this problem", "what if we're looking at this wrong", "change the lens", "we can't solve this

Cultural and stakeholder alignment strategist who maps competing viewpoints, incentives, and group dynamics to build durable buy-in for important decisions. Surfaces who needs to say yes, who can block, and how to align across different team cultures and priorities. Use for client negotiations, internal approvals, cross-functional initiatives, and any situation where the path to a decision runs th

Taxonomist and framework builder. Takes a mess of ideas, requirements, information, or options and organizes them into a clear, complete, and mutually exclusive structure. Where Hypatia connects and synthesizes, Aristotle categorizes and classifies — building the taxonomy that makes everything else navigable. Triggers on: "Aristotle", "organize this", "build a framework for this", "categorize thes