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 […]
You are invited. You are invited. It’s for everyone. More information at https://www.openhouse.cr. This is a copy paste from the Openhouse website: Focus We all live at least an arm’s length away from a screen, and because of that, we understand that [...]
I’m conflicted, as I’m not sure if I was fascinated by the chair or the video. By the end of this beautiful animation, it’s hard to escape and not be hooked on this new design by Ronan Erwan Bouroullec. Vitra once again [...]
If you are 18 to 28 years old and have the necessary credentials to advance, I invite you to participate in the Young Lions both in print and film. In the interview on Channel 7, Lilli González represented Ascap.
The country’s advertising agencies have entered more pieces in Cannes than ever before, and for this reason, I am excited to share today’s information regarding the data issued by Cannes Lions. JWT and DDB are the agencies that have completed the most [...]
We present the three new versions for Salat, already entered in Cannes, in addition to the Hospital and Postman versions that won in Pregonero and Volcán. These three new pieces, developed by the same creative team at Tribu Saatchi Saatchi, complete a [...]
At the 6th hour, darkness came over the whole land, until the 9th hour. Don’t miss THE FINAL HOURS, a message in English by Andy Stanley, especially relevant in these days of Semana Sana and even more for the rest of life. [...]
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 [...]