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 […]
A few days ago I came across an advertisement that talks about envy, possibly from the entrails of the same feeling, which disturbed my spirit and made me think about this capital sin, and for this reason also, today I am typing [...]
In the “round table” of the Superschool, which were more like online chairs, we had three opinions about this campaign. Here is the video with the comments of Andrés Artavia, Manuel Travisany and Pancho Terán. Cheers!
Being in Cannes last year for the first time in my life, I received so much from the experience that I still don’t stop gaining from that experience of exposure to the most important advertising festival in the world. There is so [...]
The Caribbean is just a few days away. Costa Rica’s expectations, I guess, are still low. Most of the winning Guatemalan pieces, both from Leo and BBDO, are participating again in this festival, and I suppose, with good options. Likewise the Panamanian [...]
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From left to right, after dinner at Mangiamo, Daslav Maslov from Monstro Chile, Fito Bauzá from DDB Mexico, Jorge Oller from Tribu Costa Rica, Sebastián Mopardo from brother, Diego Castillo, Director of brother, and Carlos Cantú from YR Mexico. Daslav was a [...]
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 [...]
