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 […]
In a recent interview by The Economist, Bill Gates insists that technology has to work for poor people, and justifies the reasons to be optimistic about the future based on its advantages. His view of the current crisis, and his opinion on [...]
Even with the crisis deep in the minds of the most pessimistic, this data reflects much of the world we are still living in today. If there are those who really think that the recession implies a kind of time-out, perhaps it [...]
. When advertising is placed on the edge of the precipice of decisions, it is easy to choose to cut it. In this series of slides we find an attractive, interesting, timely and highly debatable presentation, as evidenced by the comments below. [...]
In Costa Rica we are just a few days away from starting the competition to hunt for the best and most daring young talents in the country to represent us and win at Cannes, both in Film and Print. In the meantime, [...]
Last weekend I got the YouTube link with the new case prepared by JWT Costa Rica, under the direction of Christian Caldwell and his team. Clearly, they are once again betting on a case to compete and win in Cannes, now [...]
A Tim Berners-Lee se le atribuye la creación de la internet, o la www, world wide web. Acá su visión de lo que sigue, donde los números y los datos podrán encontrar el marco de vida para una nueva forma de convivencia, [...]
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 [...]
