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 […]
From today in five weeks will be the Berlin Marathon. There will be Haile Gebreselassie in the lead, possibly the greatest marathon runner in history, world record with 2:04:26 in Berlin 2007. Also, about 30,000 runners behind, I hope to be [...]
And the clicks continue. Noah’s project is as creative as it is strange, as beautiful as it is weird, as artistic as it is self-centered, yet it is generous, meticulous and painstaking. Don’t miss his website with more than two thousand and [...]
In the voice of Bono and his U2, this is a song of deep meaning. There are those who start, those who return and those who keep searching. No matter where we are or what the starting point is today, perhaps the [...]
The volcanoes of Guatemala are imposing, spectacular and unmistakable, as has been BBDO in this country, led by Ernesto Villa and Victor Garcia. Their agency has been four years in a row the agency of the year in Antigüa, their creative product [...]
It’s the direction that determines the destination, and that’s why everything points to Lovemarks at Tribu and Saatchi Saatchi. Beyond the flavor of the month or just another fad, filling the world with Lovemarks is the focus of everything we do at [...]
The next Volcán will be open to the participation of all Central America and therefore, it becomes a new regional competitive scenario for advertising creativity from Guatemala to Panama. The vision of a Creative Central America, the strengthening of Fecap, the opportunities [...]
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 [...]
