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 […]
All over the world, agencies that come to play hard at the Cannes Festival prepare their pieces well in advance. In fact, at this moment they are already producing the ideas chosen in the last weeks, in order to have all their [...]
Tony Granger and his team in New York launched a new marvel of a commercial. It’s a story aimed at women and their magic, in a production with a lot of dollars involved. It’s refreshing to see a retail giant like JC [...]
If you are already jogging or running 8 or 10 Kms, you are in time to prepare, for example, for the Miami Half Marathon, January 27, 2008. From Tribu we will be training Quincho Brenes, Gabo Alfaro, Giovanni Sanchez and myself, so [...]
Richard Branson is a living legend and an extraordinary entrepreneur who has amazed the world for years. In this interview with Chris Andersen in Monterey, California, he tells us about his Virgin empire, his successful brands, some of his ideas regarding space, [...]
It is not at all comfortable to talk about our addictions. It is a subject we avoid so as not to confront our deep weaknesses, with complex roots and entangled in our powerful self-defense systems. Those addicted to drugs or alcohol are [...]
If you are 28 years old or younger, you are creative, you want to emerge and you are not afraid of competition, you have until Monday to sign up for the Costa Rican contest to enter the global competition that will be [...]
About 12 years ago I got to know Ingo Maurer, a creative, innovative and groundbreaking German designer of… lamps! And then, so in the very first line I would deserve a slap for ignorance, because Ingo is a brilliant architect of light, [...]
I am not a theologian nor do I presume sufficient biblical knowledge to explain anything. However, in the Bible we find truth after truth, age-old wisdom and teachings that can make all the difference in our lives. In fact, as the compendium [...]
The importance of body language. A few days ago I received a message saying: “Hi Jorge, I came in to see your links. In “about me“, the picture you have according to the “body language” (see TED, Amy Cuddy’s talk) reflects a [...]
Moisés Naím has published a new book:“The End of Power“. He argues that power is not only being diluted and changing course, but that it is in decline. As his cover says, not only from the highest echelons of political power, but [...]
Maybe you have already seen this video. Although if you haven’t, please, please don’t miss it, even though I have a different point of view. Often “doing what I like” is not necessarily what suits me, as it tends to lead us [...]
