An interactive Claude Code skill that helps you discover your core identity and strategy through Naval Ravikant's "Productize Yourself" framework.
This is not a productivity tool. It's a structured self-discovery session. The AI asks questions. You find your own answers.
Guides you through a Socratic dialogue based on Naval's four pillars:
| Pillar | Core Question |
|---|---|
| Specific Knowledge | What can only you do? |
| Leverage | How do you scale it? |
| Accountability | What do you stake your name on? |
| Judgment | What do you stop doing? |
The session ends with your Productize Yourself formula:
[Your Specific Knowledge] × [Your Leverage] = What You Build
- You choose a theme (or go through all four pillars)
- The AI asks one question at a time, quoting Naval's original words
- You answer honestly — there are no right answers
- The AI reflects your words back and goes deeper
- At the end, your discoveries are crystallized into a clear statement
Copy the skill file to your Claude Code commands directory:
# User-level (available in all projects)
cp productize-yourself.md ~/.claude/commands/
# Project-level (available in one project)
cp productize-yourself.md .claude/commands/Then run it in Claude Code:
/productize-yourself
You: /productize-yourself
AI: What do you do? Tell me about yourself briefly.
You: I'm a pediatrician who builds AI tools on the side.
AI: Which theme do you want to explore today?
A. Specific Knowledge — "What can only you do?"
B. Leverage — "How do you scale it?"
...
You: A
AI: Let me start with this.
"What feels like play to you but looks like work to others?"
Naval said: "All of this stuff feels like play to me,
but it looks like work to others."
You: Honestly, connecting medical knowledge with technology.
When I'm building an app that solves a clinical problem,
I lose track of time...
AI: "Connecting medical knowledge with technology" —
that's interesting. Let me push on that.
When people come to you for advice, is it about medicine,
about tech, or about the intersection?
[...continues one question at a time...]
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Productize Yourself — Session Result
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■ Theme: Specific Knowledge
■ Your Specific Knowledge
The ability to translate clinical problems into software —
seeing inefficiencies that pure engineers can't see,
and building solutions that pure doctors can't build.
■ Key Discoveries
- Your specific knowledge lives at the intersection, not in either field alone
- You've been doing this for 8 years without getting bored — that's the signal
- The knowledge is unsystematized — no one teaches "clinical problem → app" in school
■ Your Core Statement
"I eliminate healthcare inefficiency by building systems."
■ Productize Yourself Formula
Clinical × Engineering Intuition × Code & Media = Healthcare tools that scale
■ One Next Action
Ship the first version of the patient education app this month.
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- Professionals who feel stuck trading time for money
- Founders trying to articulate what makes them unique
- Anyone asking "What should I actually be building?"
- People who've read Naval but haven't applied it to themselves
All quotes are from Naval Ravikant's public writings and talks:
- How to Get Rich (Without Getting Lucky) — Original tweetstorm
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant — Free book by Eric Jorgenson
- Specific Knowledge — Naval's essay
See references/naval-principles.md for the complete quote collection used in this skill.
This is a slash command skill for Claude Code, Anthropic's CLI tool. Skills are markdown files that give Claude structured instructions for specific tasks.
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