# Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas

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## What Jamie wrote

This is a good list of provocative questions to push new approaches to problems. 

> **The following prompts jostle you out of tiny thinking.** Each stretches some dimension of reality to an extreme. So extreme that it is nearly nonsense. But dramatically different perspectives can reveal distinctly new ideas. An idea that would be a 60% solution in an extreme hypothetical case, could be a 2x or even a 10x idea in reality.

I've seen teams do this a lot with scale. If you know you will have 40% scale each year, it is worth asking what you would do if you needed 1,000% scale. You can also do similar things in models by using extreme inputs to see if the model just fails.

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