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 […]
Nike has done it again, now with a particularly powerful idea: find your greatness. Instead of just applauding sports idols, what if we decided to get moving and start our own? The winning case is on the Cannes Lions site just a [...]
Evian ignites our inner child: While Evian won a Golden Lion at the Cannes Lions last year, I connected a couple of dots and decided to write about the inner child in all of us. Check out the commercial that triggered this [...]
Life-saving creativity! Every year and from all over the world, creative ideas stand out for both their genius and their transformative capacity. Here between one opportunity and another, I want to briefly leave you with two life savers. The first comes from [...]
Values that promote prosperity: in a practical simplification, there are two types of countries: those that prosper and those that do not. Apply the concept also to companies, institutions, families and all types of human organizations. Some advance and others stagnate or [...]
A Fuego Lento: this is my 1,650th blog post, a life experience I have enjoyed since April 2005. In writing I have taken my mind to the gym, propelled by the energy of my fingertips on the keyboard, and with each exercise [...]
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 [...]
At this rate of visits, October 2007 could be the first month in which this blog passes 100,000 page views. So don’t stop visiting us, we are on our way to a record that implies connection, a sense of community, a meeting [...]
Rogelio Umaña sent me this video that is simply great. You will enjoy it.
One less aggression, just one, and this effort is worth in all its small dimension to prove that the power of one is enough to bring about change. This idea by Carlos Jiménez, Joaquín Brenes and Camilo Adames is a worthy example [...]
FOLLOW ME, that’s all he told Mateo. He did not ask him to change on the spot, to stop being him, he did not ask him to put on a church face, to sacrifice his life, to become someone else or to [...]