On Solid Ground – Latest Blog Posts
How The Lean Startup Method Can Save You Time and Money
If I could summarize the main lesson of Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup in one sentence, it would be something like this: When launching a product, start small, get it to market as quickly as possible, and then use this market feedback to adjust and move forward. Ries...
Unstoppable Momentum: The Music of Joe Satriani
When the fourteen-year-old Joe Satriani learned, during high school football practice in 1970, of the passing of his musical hero Jimi Hendrix, he walked over to the coach and quit to become a guitarist. Over the next sixteen years, he taught guitar lessons,...
Ludovico Einaudi: Artistic Integrity and Harmonious Music
“When I need to feel like I’m in a beautiful place, that is the music I go to.” This is how one listener described the experience of listening to music by Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi. His music is elegant and simple, yet innovative. Although he...
Sales Mastermind Lessons for Non-Sales People
I’m not a professional salesperson, but I recently learned some sales lessons that can be helpful even for non-sales people. I needed help on a pitch email for a prospective freelance client, so I reached out to my friend Nick Rundlett who hosts a “sales mastermind...
The Delights of Dance: Health, Expression, and Musicality
In today’s busy world, having fun life-enhancing hobbies can drastically improve one’s quality of life. Dance is one such hobby for me. It has always fascinated me because it uses human movement as a means of artistic expression. Dance is everywhere: formal ballet...
For Maximum Success, “Eat That Frog”
Have you ever felt so overwhelmed with a project or task that you don't even know where to start? This often leads to procrastination. But if you sit down and think about the project, writing step by step what you need to do, things become clearer. How can we make...
Enrich Your Life and Strengthen Your Mind by Learning a Foreign Language
Learning another language can have many benefits: cognitive, emotional, and social—and it doesn’t have to be the chore it used to be. Learning foreign words with no direct translation in English can help you identify and articulate experiences that you otherwise...
David Goggins’s Key to Perseverance
I now understand why former Navy Seal and ultra marathoner, David Goggins, earned the nicknames the “toughest man alive,” the “sultan of suffering,” a “connoisseur of pain,” and a “disciple of discipline.” Listening to the audiobook of his life story, Can’t Hurt...
Build the Best Version of You with Cassey Ho
Imagine turning two things you love doing into a brand worth millions of dollars. That’s exactly what thirty-four-year-old Cassey Ho has done with designing clothes and teaching Pilates, and that’s why I admire her. She runs the YouTube channel Blogilates, which is...