Goal and options: How can you more quickly pour water from a bottle?
output answer: Swirl it around, upside down it will create a vortex that makes it leave the bottle quickly.

Goal and options: how do you photograph something?
output answer: take a picture of it

Goal and options: To make spikes in the plastic of a 2 liter soda bottle.
output answer:
Cut at diagonals to form spikes.