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What is the minimum amount of information you need to give someone to find you?
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How high do you need to be to get the whole picture?
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What mindset do you want your customers to be in?
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What is the biggest trade-off you have to make?
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What is the strangest product you could produce?
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What do you need to keep a timer for in your head?
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How do you slow down the spread of information?
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What would you do with an empty passenger plane?
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What should you have done and when should have you done it?
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What are you disconnected from that you used to be deeply involved in?
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If you didn't have to drive on your commute, what would you do instead?
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If you don't have a hammer, what's your go to tool?
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Which is a better problem, anti-gravity or artificial gravity?
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What information do you need throughout the day?
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What does your personal autosave animation look like?
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Where are you going to get your next idea from?
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What is the optimal number of tires in your life?
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What is the perfect TV show for you to be apart of?
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If you had to give up a limb, which one are you giving up?
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A real classic problem, how do you create fire?
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How do you interact with a customer without meeting with them?
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What is the maximum number of friends you can have?
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How would you use a budget that grows 10x in one year?
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What should your town be know as the birth place of?
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What in your life would you like as a score for a video game?
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What is the maximum distance you can throw a frisbee?
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How would you describe your product or service to someone 100 years in the future?
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Describe your product to someone from 100 years in the past.
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What is the one thing you are going to sell on your street?
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How long is each episode of your business' story?
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Set out a specification for your next car, what does it need to have?
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Where is the location for your company's perfect headquarters?
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How long much of a reduction in travel time would be significant for places you travel?
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Which of the little piggy houses are you going to build for yourself?
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How would you create a new currency for trade and barter systems?
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Create an innovation scale to compare new innovations against.
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How would you redesign a meeting room for your work?
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How would you order deli meat if not in weights?
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What is your personal battery meter measured in?
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What are your big advantages and problems with having an office in a hot air balloon?
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Of your favorite candies, which ones will crush the easiest or hardest?
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How many predictable events do you have in your life?
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What is the sport that will replace soccer as the world's most popular?
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What would you use human blood for, beyond medical uses?
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Should you cook hamburgers over high or low heat?
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How many times should you shuffle a deck of cards?
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What device would be the most magic to someone in the past?
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What is the best way to divide a donut to share with a group of people.
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What standards do you have in your life, and how often should you be changing them?
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How are you going to drive a nail without a hammer?
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What is going to be the big yearly celebration on Mars?
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What are the 10 items you are going to pack for Mars?
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What is the one technology that needs to be developed for interstellar travel?
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Can you make use of a hub and spoke system in your life?
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What is the lightest combination of coins that add up to all values from 1 cent to 1 dollar?
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How many people do you need in your office to keep it warm?
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How do you identify if you're in an echo chamber?
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What is your preference to access everything in your life?
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What is the smallest detail you can see around you right now?
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How many umbrellas would it take to cover your yard?
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Who are the giants in your life, business, or career?
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Who would you choose to represent you and your personal brand?
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What in your office are you going to convert to steam power?
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When did a historical peak happen for a product or service?
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What is the best way to adjust to a new time zone?
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When stuck in a traffic jam, should you change lanes?
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What is the average altitude of your neighborhood?
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Is it better to turn only left or right to get home?
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How would you handle the logistics of getting everyone on Earth to a single continent?
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Which is the best continent to put the entire world's population on?
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Will the first interstellar spaceship be the first to colonize another planet?
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How would you move the moon? What do you need to get to the moon to move it?
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How do you make sure only customers are using your restroom.
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Design a galactic time scale for use anywhere in the Universe.
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How do you signal to your customers to clean their own tables?
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How do you describe pain without using another form of pain?
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How do you put a ball on the roof of your building in 10 years.
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A brief about the show itself, how the show is structured.
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How can you get from the first floor to the second floor?
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How would you build a building from top to bottom?
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It's our 100th episode, so simply list all the numbers between 1 and 100.
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What is the best way to get the jellied cranberry sauce out of the can?
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Go out and determine if other people's glasses are half full or half empty.
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How do you survive sky diving without a parachute?
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How do you find your home when your lost in the Universe?
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Using only an index card, put directions home for anywhere on Earth.
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How would you fix the classically hated conference calls?
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Redesign the glove box for something that it's actually used for.
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What is the alternative fuel for your self designed car?
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How do you fix the problem of text messages going to the wrong person.
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What's your solution to stop criss crossed emails?
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What will be the first and last job eliminated in your facility?
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How are you going to clean up the orbit of Earth?
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Create your own golden message to be transmitted to space.
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What language should you write a message in a bottle?
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You have to pack to survive on the moon, what are you taking?
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Eliminate carts from the grocery store parking lot.
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Estimate the number of boxes you need to move your office.
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Launch a penny to the top of the Empire State Building.
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How do you survive a jump from a plane that is about to crash?
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How are you going to change the orbital dynamics of the Earth?
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It's time to get rid of our current calendar and to create you own.
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Design a car that can be driven in all 4 directions.
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Build a chicken coop that will not allow snakes in.
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Design a video game controller for use by a dog.
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Choose a single color all cars have to be and justify it.
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How do you paint a spaceship for alien interaction?
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It's an easy problem, you just need to boil water.
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How many bbs can be put on a marshmallow without crushing it beyond 50%?
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Launch and recover a raw egg without breaking it.
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Determine what is inside a wrapped gift, without opening it.
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The classic school "experiment" of dropping an egg.
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How long is an acceptable communication delay for your customers?
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What kind of car does your buildings secretary drive?
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Build a device that predicts the outcome of a coin flip.
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Inform a group of people simultaneously over a large geographic area.
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Today it's a seemingly simple problem of tipping a cow.
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Design an elevator that moves in all directions.
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Using marshmallows and straws bridge a gab between two desks.
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Using superballs and Playdoh how high can you build a tower.
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Cut a cake into equal pieces with a few constraints to make it a bit harder than it sounds.
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It's simple, you just need to drink a beer at the bottom of a pool.
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Without looking, stack 4 Legos in a specific color order.
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Build a machine to draw a selection of shapes onto any curved surface.
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Today you need to build a charger for you dead phone.
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The problem that's been "solved" a million times before, fix a local traffic jam.
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Build a machine to sort raw from hard boiled eggs.
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Your problem today is to open a bottle without a bottle opener.
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Recording in New Orleans, Louisiana today; so how would you strengthen the levees?
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You need to measure the amount of liquid in a sealed cylinder.
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Today we challenge you to either design a taco vending machine, or run own.
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How do you communicate to your customers without using words?
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How would you build the Great Pyramid of Giza today? And how long would it take?
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Plant a flag at the summit of Mt. Rainier, 14,411 ft above sea level.
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You need to use the resources on an island to get your castaway crew safely off the island.
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How do you remove all the oxygen from the meeting room you are in right now?
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Build a Torii at the summit of Mt. Fuji, only you have to do it remotely.
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How many grains of sand are on a section of beach?
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You have to time a series of runners to compare their speed, but you have to do it without a time piece.
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Remove water from a cup without touching the cup or the table it is sitting on.
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With unlimited resources but limited time, find a needle in a haystack.
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How do you transfer 200,000 balls from one football end zone to the other?
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You have to keep a 5 lb ice block frozen in the middle of the desert.
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Build a contraption to protect an egg from a 1 story drop.
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A brief introduction to the Launch Pad Problems podcast.
