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 […]
It will be up to us to precisely identify all the factors that have contributed to the emergence of Costa Rican creativity, as we must protect and strengthen them while we continue to learn. In fact, only 18 months ago we were [...]
With sincere congratulations to DDB Costa Rica and its creative team, led by Manuel Travisany, I include the case with which they deservedly won a Golden Lion at Cannes. The results speak for themselves and for all their worth, from the first [...]
“The Best Job in the World” rompió récords en Cannes con tres Grand Prix en Media, Cyber y Direct, y la semana aún no termina. Así presentaron su inscripción en la cyber: To raise awareness of Queensland’s Islands of the Great Barrier [...]
There are people who have it very clear, as is the case of Rodolfo Borrell at Pagés BBDO in the Dominican Republic. So it is in this new case and golden lion for the Dominican Republic, which insists on passion and talent [...]
Of the ideas that have impressed me the most these days, this new Gold Lion for TBWA South Africa is one of those that remind us that it’s not a matter of budgets, production or unnecessary extremes when the idea itself is [...]
Would you blame yourself, is a perfect question for the headline of the print ad with which Maia and Jeniffer won Silver at the Young Lions press event in Cannes. Maturity and talent combined for our girls representatives in the Young Lions [...]
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 [...]
