TL;DR
- @Scav built 18 legendary authors as Claude Code skills — paste your draft, get roasted by Andy Grove or praised by Seth Godin.
- @zarazhangrui automated turning podcast transcripts into polished EPUB magazines, delivered weekly.
- The pattern: Knowledge work that used to require hours now runs on autopilot.
Two ways to consume knowledge: read what others wrote, or have AI read it for you and serve it better.
@Scav put 18 legendary authors in jars
The concept is delightfully weird: “Mount Rushmore-level business and writing books” — but as Claude Code skills you can shake.
Paste your draft. Shake the jar. Andy Grove tells you your strategy is garbage.
That’s it. That’s the product.
18 skills, each trained on a different author’s style and philosophy. Want Seth Godin’s marketing lens? There’s a skill for that. Need Peter Drucker’s management perspective? Shake that jar.
The code is on GitHub. Install whichever critics you want to hear from.
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@zarazhangrui turned podcasts into a personal magazine
Every week, she gets an EPUB delivered to her inbox. Inside: polished articles based on her favorite podcasts.
The automation:
- Fetches new videos from YouTube channels she follows
- Grabs the transcripts
- Rewrites them as readable articles (not raw transcripts — actual prose)
- Bundles them into an EPUB
- Delivers to her inbox
She never opens YouTube anymore. The good stuff comes to her, reformatted for reading.
Published as a Claude skill — configure your channels and let it run.
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The deeper pattern
Both projects do the same thing: they turn passive consumption into active tools.
@Scav doesn’t just read business books — he extracted their wisdom into critics that challenge his thinking on demand. @zarazhangrui doesn’t just listen to podcasts — she built a system that serves them in her preferred format.
This is the shift: from consuming content to commanding it.
What knowledge are you consuming passively that could work harder for you?
