The Ebenezer Scrooge
Framework
The Audit of a Life
Ebenezer Scrooge represents one of the most distinctive thinking patterns in their field. Ebenezer Scrooge's approach — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The the audit of a life framework distils Ebenezer Scrooge's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Ebenezer Scrooge made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Ebenezer Scrooge's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.
A glimpse of Ebenezer Scrooge's thinking.
Every life is a ledger. Scrooge's transformation in Dickens's text is not a rejection of accounting but its completion: he had been tallying only one column, the monetary, and ignoring the debits accumulating in human warmth, loyalty, and time. The full audit requires that every asset and every liability be named, including the ones that do not appear on any invoice. A figure that looks like surplus may, on closer inspection, prove to be the record of a slow impoverishment.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.
"What am I counting, and what have I decided not to count, and why?"
4 more questions in Ebenezer Scrooge's voice are unlocked with purchase.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Ebenezer Scrooge actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.
Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.
- ✦Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Ebenezer Scrooge's documented worldview
- ✦Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
- ✦Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
- ✦Signature questions — five questions that sound like Ebenezer Scrooge, not a generic MBA
- ✦What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
- ✦Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- ✦Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
- →ebenezer-scrooge.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →ebenezer-scrooge-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Ebenezer Scrooge. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.