The Psychology of Success

My friend Feross just wrote a really fascinating blog post showing a few videos about a study showing delayed gratification to be a high predictor of success. See one of the videos below:

Or read Feross’ post here:

It is a very interesting idea to think of “success” as the ability to postpone your rewards and have some sort of long term planning as opposed to living completely in the moment.

WordPress mobile

I am writing this current post from my couch on my phone using the open source wordpress app for iPhone. Here’s my review of the app: sweet.

It’s very easy to use, and it has a great and simple interface. You can manage multiple blogs in a very intuitive and classicaly simple wordpress setup. If you are looking to manage your blog on the go (for some reason, I don’t really know why) wordpress for iPhone is the way to go.

Google Wave Embedding

One of the cool things about Google Wave is that you will be able to embed waves into sites very easily and users can interact with the wave. I wrote a java robot that adds random quotes to the conversation, and here it is (if you have a wave developer account).

–I have temporarily taken it down… but it will be back up soon

Welcome to thekeesh.com version 3.0 (beta)

This is the newest version of thekeesh.com, which will be my blog. I am using the newest version of WordPress, and if you are looking for a blogging software or a content management system, I highly recommend it. It is very easy to use and very customizable. So that’s about it for now, we are sending out private beta invitations if you would like to keep reading, because everyone loves private beta.