The Maryam Mirzakhani
Framework
Slow Thinking & Drawing the Problem
Maryam Mirzakhani represents one of the most distinctive thinking patterns in their field. Maryam Mirzakhani's approach — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The slow thinking & drawing the problem framework distils Maryam Mirzakhani'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 Maryam Mirzakhani made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Maryam Mirzakhani's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.
A glimpse of Maryam Mirzakhani's thinking.
Mirzakhani treated a problem as a physical object to be handled from multiple angles before any formal machinery was applied. She worked by drawing large, loose pictures on paper spread across the floor, letting spatial intuition run ahead of symbolic reasoning. The goal was never to solve the problem as stated but to find the version of the problem that was actually solvable, because the stated version was almost always a disguise.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.
What does this problem look like if I draw it rather than write it?
4 more questions in Maryam Mirzakhani'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 Maryam Mirzakhani 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 Maryam Mirzakhani'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 Maryam Mirzakhani, 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
- →maryam-mirzakhani.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →maryam-mirzakhani-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 Maryam Mirzakhani. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.