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 begins at ArteCine Lindora the OPENHOUSE, an option for the ill-mannered like me, as it takes messages from conversational speakers from the United States, and projects them on the movie screen in an activity that does not exceed 60 minutes. Thus, [...]
From Mosaic in Pasadena, Erwin McManus, the lead pastor of one of the most creative churches in the United States, www.mosaic.org, will visit us next week. In his proposal, art, film, dance, music of course, creativity and innovation play a key role [...]
With only three weeks to go before the last date for publications or guidelines for the Pregonero and the Volcán, the season of truchos in our country begins, so it is convenient to read La Teja among other chosen media. These days, [...]
The next Volcán could be one of surprises, as we do not know if its opening to Central America will in fact imply registrations from agencies in the region or if, despite this fundamental change, it will continue to be a predominantly [...]
No matter how much time you have or don’t have, what you do or don’t do, where you are or with whom, you have to know this story. Don’t miss it, it will surely move you to tears as it did me. [...]
I deliberately abandoned many topics of interest in the advertising community, as the JWT Costa Rica Lions, as well as the Young Lions winners, provoked excessively heated tempers and my blog clogged with visits that I stopped enjoying. And because of this, [...]
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 [...]
