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 […]
Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological state in which the kidnap victim, or person detained against their own will, develops a complicit relationship with their kidnapper. On occasion, prisoners may end up helping captors achieve their ends or evade formal authority, according to [...]
From the farthest reaches of Africa comes a love story. At the age of 14 he discovered in a book how to generate electricity, and with no limits in his mind, he built a windmill to produce it. Nothing is impossible, and [...]
Today, Thursday again we stop the country with another day off, in this case, of a deep and profound religious character, celebrating the day of the venerated Virgin of the Angels. This day is celebrated with a massive pilgrimage to the city [...]
English is not my native language. Yo hablo Español. In fact, when speaking or writing in Inglés, I often make mistakes and simply mess everything up. Hago un desmadre, we would say in many of our countries. I simply speak this foreign [...]
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 [...]
