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 […]
And it is now on YouTube, complete and free for everyone. Yann Arthus-Bertrand has done it again and now in a dimension typical of his global style and his content sensitive to the world we live in. Don’t miss the one hour [...]
For more than a decade, Soy Palacio has been a consistently powerful campaign, reflecting intimate emotions and deep understanding of women. Terán TBWA has done it consistently and proves that for retail there are no formulas, only brave ones, and for this [...]
Life is a journey and not just a trip. In this message from Louis Vuitton, the essence of a legendary brand is protected and strengthened with a message that touches intimate fibers and touches deep down. Countless journeys. Countless emotions. More than [...]
In recent months we went from Johnny Araya as absolute favorite in any bet, to a resounding victory in the Liberationist convention of Laura Chinchilla, for reasons that can only be added to the pot with speculations, hypotheses, estimates, theories and opinions. [...]
Barack Obama’s leadership grows by the minute, as he speaks to the world and in his sleep as well. The President of the United States inspires and excites with his courage, his global approach, his elegance and superior purpose. With the most [...]
Yesterday I received a link to this video that confirms the crucial role that private enterprise can play in the world, because I am convinced that it is precisely companies that have to move it, inspire it, transform it and make it [...]
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 [...]