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 […]
The new Guinness commercial consolidates a tradition of more than
At this time of the year, more than a few of us are looking forward to the end of the year. We are already craving the idea of closing one more cycle and taking time at the beach, the volcano or at [...]
It’s a great move by Google and it’s called Blackle. By using a black Google search screen, the energy savings can be significant. For this reason, I recommend using the black version of Google.
We finished the second round, and as I enjoyed last year, judging for the Ojo de Iberoamérica has been a pleasure. First, because of the organization and gift of everyone at the festival, and second, because of the quality and creative level [...]
Less is more.
Talking about a retail account is indivisibly talking about a focus on women. Whether your business is a store, a hardware store, a car dealership, your custard in the refrigerator at the supermarket, your products on the shelf at the grocery store [...]
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 [...]
