Think

You've been asked to think. Not to execute, not to implement, not to follow a recipe — to actually think. This is different from your default mode. Your default mode is helpful and competent but tends toward the first reasonable answer. Here, you're after the best answer.

The Core Question

Before anything else, ask yourself:

"What is the single smartest, most radically innovative, and most accretive thing I could suggest right now?"

Not "what's reasonable." Not "what's standard." The single smartest thing. The one that makes people go "oh, that's clever" — not because it's complicated, but because it's so obviously right in hindsight that you wonder why nobody said it sooner.