This is an exercise, and as such is a bit different from your ordinary question post...

What?

Come up with 50 ways of sending something to the moon. In less than 1 hour.

I don’t care how stupid they are. My own list included “Slingshot”, “Massive trampoline” and “Bird with spacesuit”.

What matters is that you actually hit 50. I want you to have the experience of thinking that you’re out of ideas, but nonetheless deciding to push yourself, and finding your best idea thus far.

This regularly happens to me when I do this exercise. I’ll feel stuck. I’ll feel like giving up. But I forc... (Read more)