More bloggers should listen to this advice. Starting early and daily being confronted with the minor issues, or work still to be done at a site, is a great way to make sure you actually do actively work at your project and constantly improve.
In the process of making the film, we reviewed the material every day. Now, this is counter-intuitive for a lot of people. […]
Suppose you come in, and you’ve got to put together animation or drawings and show it to a famous, world-class animator. Well, you don’t want to show some thing which is weak or poor. So you want to hold off until you get it to be right.
The trick is actually to stop that behav ior. We show it every day—when it’s incomplete. If everybody does it, every day, then you get over the embarrassment. And when you get over the embarrassment, you’re more creative.
It’s not obvious to people, but starting down that path helped every thing that we did. Show it in its incomplete form. There’s another advantage to that. When you’re done… you’re done.
Pixar president Ed Catmull, in a speech to Stanford’s business school.
