The truth is that often things do get over analysed, causing analysis paralysis; and this unfortunately is where a lot of great ideas go to die.

I find that penning everything down in my moleskine helps, I can avoid losing good ideas (‘cos I’ve written them down), expand existing ones & generally connect the dots until I have something that’s good to go.

I used to be very impulsive when I got new ideas and would pursue them without thinking them through and then they wouldn’t work the first time round and I’d lose interest in them but now I have some ideas but over-analysing them is making me nervous to try them even though they aren’t high risk ventures so I’m going to just do it too!

I’m also quite analytical, and very planning orientated. It must be that whole thing of not wanting to redo something, that I always want to get it right the first time.

I have also come to believe that the web specifically is a place where, we should rather try it and look like fools, and at least maybe increase our page rank or have an additional listing in a Search Results Page, rather than sit back and do nothing.

the beauty of working with ever evolving web technology is that we are the authors of our own success stories and we can reinvent them at any time and as many times as we like.

I have to agree that like you I tend to over think and analyze things. My project folder is littered with scribbles and notes of crazy ideas. I’ve written hundreds of specs for applications and designed silly games that might be fun, I’m normally the one with the ideas in the room but I never get down and implement them, normally because I find some kind of fault with it like not enough people will buy/use/visit it, and then 2 years later a website pops up doing exactly what I scribbled on a piece of paper and now making millions.

Some of the best things in my life were because I acted impulsively and didn’t think.