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 […]
Costa Rica is obliged to detach itself from its purvidistic idionsicracy and its still-atranquila, to recognize that the world does not wait or call it, and for this reason, either Costa Rica goes to the world or it leaves us. It is [...]
You have to see this Bonna commercial, which in 1992 won the Grand Prix at Cannes and received the loudest ovation heard in the Grand Auditorium in the last 15 years. Creativity by Fabio Fernandez, today President and Creative Director of F/Nazca [...]
Brands that ignore today’s climate crisis will pay dearly. In his words, Al Gore focuses on linking brands, business, advertising and our lives to global warming. I add one more excerpt, in which Gore clearly inspires us to take action and be [...]
A couple of years ago I bought on iTunes a full-length movie with a single theme: Helvetica. (In the video, prologue of the movie) I’ve watched it a couple of times and I enjoy it enormously, because between loving it and loving [...]
Today The Openhouse Project presented the third video talk of It’s Personal, a series that reminds us how personal it is to achieve a relationship with God. In this video that I include here is the most important fragment for you to [...]
With less than two weeks until my next marathon, these videos are a marvel for motivation as I write with a cold and torn to shreds from an extremely untimely flu. The variables for a marathon, as for almost everything in life, [...]
When you count the years in decades and one or two are no longer enough, it is time to recognize the ball or pineapple, whatever you want to call it, but clearly the amount of time that has accumulated as in my [...]
I spent 10 years of my life at McCann-Erickson, from the first as an advertiser to the last as an employee. Today I have little left of that company, as I have changed and so has McCann. However, the affection and appreciation [...]
Hold a focus group.