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 […]
Today is Publicist’s Day and this is a very good thing. On my side, I do not even know at what time I have already added more than 35 years of being an advertiser. Advertising is the occupation, activity, profession, art and [...]
It seems that the end of the usual menu is near, as well as the typical way of ordering food or drinks in a restaurant. Unfortunately, the bill will keep coming and therefore, we will have to keep ringing the American Express. [...]
A few days ago I heard an opinion that left me cold: Intel’s exit was completely inevitable. Really? And why Israel, being outside the Asian production zone and despite being a country with high costs in general, is the chosen destination for [...]
At the end of this Holy Week, we arrive once again to Easter Sunday. We go through Lent, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, the stories, recreations, processions, celebrations, masses, traditions, cults and everything that happens with more intensity during Holy [...]
A few years ago when we were preparing the Osa Campaign, the one that brought thousands of tattoos to our skin, what I said in that environment could have been adverse and aggressive to the idea. I was simply wrong, as the [...]
In a matter of hours Luis Guillermo Solis will be the new President elect of Costa Rica. At the same time it has been confirmed that Intel will take over manufacturing, adjust operations and sadly lay off thousands. In the midst of [...]
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 [...]
