All the texts I’ve recently published in The Slow Burn have been born from a desire to share and inspire. I emphasize this because I recognize that it wasn’t always like this. In the past, when I called myself a publicist and entrepreneur, my writing was often driven by a need to build my personal […]
Tribu and DDB have decided to join forces in Costa Rica to add strengths and build together the future of the company. This new partnership will begin in 2010 and promises an important evolution with more opportunities, both for clients and for [...]
Today I posted this quote on Twitter: “Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.” by John Wanamaker. Living in a permanent state of gratitude is an idea that is gaining more [...]
I remember when I heard about Lovemarks for the first time about 8 or 9 years ago, and between all the sense it made to me and the moment we were living, I suspected that this was a concept that would come [...]
When a brand’s day-to-day work achieves this level of creativity and design, we can applaud on our feet for a long time. When an idea like this gets published, the agency has its merit and the client has his too, because the [...]
In the left column, and in the Tribu Print section, you will find the latest we have produced for The Osa Campaign. First of all, a big congratulations to all the Creative Connection, which in Tribu exceeds 30 creatives between graphics and [...]
A couple of years ago I bought on iTunes a full-length movie with a single theme: Helvetica. (In the video, prologue of the movie) I’ve watched it a couple of times and I enjoy it enormously, because between loving it and loving [...]
A few years ago, when I first wrote this piece in the Costa Rican newspaper La Nación, Apple had just broken ground in an innovative way that had nothing to do with technology, a new device or a new machine. Rather, they’d [...]
It was March 2008 when I programmed the rental car’s GPS to find the closest gas station. I was in Paris and had to fill the tank in order to avoid the steep cost of gas at the rental agency. Since I [...]
When I typed this question into Google, a whopping 241 million results came up. “Holy shit!” I thought to myself. Then, I tweaked my query slightly, swapping the word “world” for “life” and two million more search results were generated. Safe to [...]
My blogging debut was back in 2005 when I first wrote a few lines here, on the Slow Burn blog, named A Fuego Lento in Spanish. Since then, it has certainly lived up to its name; I’ve gone through periods of writing [...]
The Value in Respecting Differences The month of February that is ending has been a personally inspiring experience. On the first of the month, my wife and I took flights from Juan Santamaría airport to Delhi, India. From there, we went on [...]
He began the day’s Keynote by reiterating that we can all transform the world, recalling that a child in Africa with a smartphone today has more information in his hands than the President of the United States 15 years ago. Moore’s Law [...]
