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 […]
There are commercials that are ruined at the end, as possibly happened with this example of Unimed, which breaks the smile of its stories in sequence when it reminds us that it was just another commercial. Possibly the announcer was left over, [...]
With just days to go before we meet at Volcan in Costa Rica, the country’s premier advertising festival, I’m impressed by news such as Vega Olmos being hired by JWT and Bob Isherwood reinventing himself outside of Saatchi Saatchi. The world is [...]
Last week we received confirmation: Costa Rica will be able to send two creative duos to compete in Film and Print next year, so we at ASCAP are jumping for joy at this sensational opportunity, which is undoubtedly a response to the [...]
I have always preferred the sunrise, and in this message of multiple interpretation, I totally agree with the idea of rediscovering energy. This video comes to us from Saatchi Saatchi Paris.
Imagine a church that you want all week long to go to every Sunday. One that children ask to go to and want to return to, because it is the best time of their week, and one that adults look for from [...]
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 [...]
