“Just try something silly,” his colleague Jamie said. “You know, like Google Gravity .”
See, there’s a lesser-known trick: once Google Gravity is running (the page is a pile of interactive rubble), you can type any word and press Enter. The search still works — but the letters you type swirl into a tiny, twirling tornado of text before they fly up to run the query. google gravity tornado
Then he closed the tab and went back to his real work — but differently. He started typing his problem into a doc, then deliberately threw the sentences around, reordering them, letting ideas bump into each other like the floating pieces of Google’s logo. “Just try something silly,” his colleague Jamie said