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 few years ago, when I first wrote this piece in the Costa Rican newspaper La Nación, Apple had just broken ground in an innovative way that had nothing to do with technology, a new device or a new machine. Rather, they’d [...]
It was March 2008 when I programmed the rental car’s GPS to find the closest gas station. I was in Paris and had to fill the tank in order to avoid the steep cost of gas at the rental agency. Since I [...]
When I typed this question into Google, a whopping 241 million results came up. “Holy shit!” I thought to myself. Then, I tweaked my query slightly, swapping the word “world” for “life” and two million more search results were generated. Safe to [...]
My blogging debut was back in 2005 when I first wrote a few lines here, on the Slow Burn blog, named A Fuego Lento in Spanish. Since then, it has certainly lived up to its name; I’ve gone through periods of writing [...]
The Value in Respecting Differences The month of February that is ending has been a personally inspiring experience. On the first of the month, my wife and I took flights from Juan Santamaría airport to Delhi, India. From there, we went on [...]
He began the day’s Keynote by reiterating that we can all transform the world, recalling that a child in Africa with a smartphone today has more information in his hands than the President of the United States 15 years ago. Moore’s Law [...]
