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 […]
To score a goal, you have to kick it into the frame. To achieve something, you must first try. To win, you have to participate first. To hunt a lion, you have to aim, believe it is possible and pull the trigger. [...]
Click here: YOUNG CREATIVES FILM COMPETITION and discover the 19 duos that will compete in Cannes with Carlos Jiménez and Paula Guevara next week. The body temperature rises and the excitement begins to transform.
De los Zanders vino la regla #6, como también la idea de darle a todo el mundo una A. Es inpirador, mueve el espíritu y te convence de la idea de levantarte en las mañanas propuestos y propuestas a tomar la posibilidad [...]
Here you will find a lousy, boring and absurd video made… in Tribe! under Zander’s rule number 6: don’t take yourself too seriously! And what are the other 5 rules? …Peel. There aren’t any. It doesn’t matter. Just don’t take yourself too [...]
By MARCELO FURRER and JOAQUIN BRENES DE TRIBU. One of the high points of our visit to the Ojo de Iberoamérica was the lecture by Erik Vervroegen, DGC of the most awarded agency in Europe in the last two years: TBWA Paris. [...]
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 [...]
