How I Use Claude Code to Turn Any Expert's Best Thinking Into an AI Skill
Learn how to convert any expert's public content into a reusable AI skill you can run whenever you need it
Reading Ogilvy doesn’t make your copy better.
Having Ogilvy’s principles codified into a grader that scores your copy in real-time does.
Everyone consumes expert content. Newsletters, podcasts, YouTube. With AI, it’s now possible to instantly turn that content into action.
As Naval Ravikant put it:
“Reading is not the same as understanding. Understanding is not the same as being able to use it.”
Here’s the shift: every piece of expert content is now a functional brief for Claude Code. A newsletter, a YouTube transcript, a podcast episode. This system can aggregate an experts lessons, extracts the best lessons, and turns them into a skill.md file you can run on demand.
Charlie Munger called this a latticework of mental models. He spent decades reading voraciously across physics, psychology, biology, economics, but he didn’t just read. He converted every major idea into a reusable mental framework he could apply to investing decisions. Warren Buffett read all the same books. Most investors of their era did too. Munger’s edge was turning that content into a system he built to convert it into something operational.
That’s exactly what this tutorial will do for you. Just faster. Plus I’ve included the system for you to download at the end of this article.
I built it. I pointed it at myself first.
Here’s what happened.