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 […]
Successful people make important decisions early in their lives, and then manage those decisions. John C Maxwell for 7 minutes, one for every 10,000 hits received on A Fuego Lento during the month of August. Perhaps this is completely unrelated, and then [...]
In the last few weeks, more than ever I have heard from people eager for revolution in their fields. There are clear signs that anticipate changes, evolutions and even cultural revolutions that could finally change the status quo. Both in Costa Rica [...]
With today’s e-tickets, airlines can do with their passengers as they please. This week DELTA AIRLINES did it to me in an unacceptable way, and for this, despite many travel woes I endure, this one deserves a separate chapter because it was [...]
I love my SonyEricsson more than ever, while Apple will have to appear on the scene to clear up an awesome glitch: iPhone freezes. Yesterday in Atlanta I missed an urgent call from my son Santiago, because my iPhone, with the ATT [...]
Jorge Walter Bolaños wrote this article, which I am reproducing, as a sample of the depth and seriousness of the subject under discussion, and which makes it even more difficult for us to understand the Yes campaign. Mr. Jorge Walter is a [...]
Consumer was born from a sum of stars aligned in the same direction. One of them was Rafael Calderón Mugica, whom I met at the UCR and with whom I became a friend and brother in life. When I returned from Mexico [...]
In the early days of our agency, located in the room of my parents’ house that my brother Carlos vacated, the then Consumer had its first network: a Mac 512 and a Mac SE, my brother’s computer and mine. From one desk [...]
Jorge Galeano’s memory will live forever in our memories, because his role was crucial in the beginning of our company. Que de Dios Goce, Jorge opened the first accounting books, made the first financial statements and came to put order in that [...]
We brought him from McCann-Erickson with a mission, to make him the first digital artfinalist in the country. As a young master of graphic arts, Fernando turned to Mac to learn the new way of making art. He dedicated, on one long [...]
Alvaro Fernández entered our agency with the credentials of Doña Rotunda on his chest, a character created for the National Lottery that made havoc, history and provoked big smiles. With us, he dedicated much of his talent to Cofal, as well as [...]
When I proposed to Marjorie González to move from GM (Gutiérrez Machado), a respectable agency of those years, she accepted for reasons that I still don’t understand, since she decided to join an embryonic company and the one she was joining as [...]
