Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas

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.