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 […]
Starting tomorrow, ASCAP and LA NACIÓN will become a single cause to encourage more advertising creativity in the country by starting the race to choose the duo that will represent us in the Young Lions Competition at the next Cannes International Festival [...]
This Saatchi Saatchi New Zealand commercial reminds us that not everything is done, especially if we use different angles to innovate and see things from a different perspective.
When you come across a place like Tome Dom, you celebrate the fact that there are still corners of the world that survive the Amazon and Barnes Noble stores on the planet, because they are more intimate, more human, more pleasant. Its [...]
A few days ago I went in search of a gas station to return a rented car with a full tank of gas, and thus avoid the abusive charge that companies like Hertz make on the price of fuel. When I started [...]
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 [...]
