make it first, analyze later

"Gondry talked about how his friends ask him for advice on projects. He felt that it was very important to do two things: one, finish projects you start; two, start projects. Somehow his reversed order of priority made sense. It was crucial to him that if you begin to execute an idea, you must take it to completion. He warned against doubting whether an idea was good or interesting enough; again, it was more important to finish. In some ways, it's an old Media Lab theme: make it first, analyze later. Gondry summed it up with what I thought was the quote of the night, as he advised his friends to just do it: "There's nothing not cool enough." His slightly odd phrasing only made it more memorable."