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 […]
My body takes me from a to b, although the route is in my mind. I love running. And even more so in company.
Tonight we gathered a group of twitters in Tribu, invited by Rogelio Umaña and his fascinating idea: gorileo.tv. Thus, with a live audio and video webcast, hundreds of people entered the address www.gorileo.tv or www.seetheworlddigital.com and enjoyed a pleasant, entertaining and fine [...]
The OpenHouse Project presenta el próximo lunes santo 6 de abril, Dealing with Doubt, 7:15 PM. Artecine Lindora, entrada libre. “Since we all experience doubt at some point in our lives, we need to learn how God wants us to deal with [...]
The process to select the pairs that will participate for a Film and a Print slot in the next great Cannes Lions festival in France has begun. With many difficulties and without enough money yet, from ASCAP we decided to move forward [...]
One of the country’s pioneer twitterers, blogger, pianist, planner, creative, violinist, friend and publicist, among many other qualities, Rogelio Umaña, will be conducting an experiment next Friday at 8 PM. This is his comment in his recent blog post: GorileoTV is a [...]
In the 25th anniversary edition of Archive, one of the most prestigious design and advertising magazines in the world, page 75, two pieces by Salat, for our client Dipo, are published. First of all, warm congratulations to the entire team at Tribu [...]
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 [...]
