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 […]
Anybody can make an ad. A brand doesn’t. In Costa Rica, as in the world, there are many people making ads. And of course, people hiring them. Many are those who assume that their brands or products need to advertise to sell, [...]
It’s been a few weeks since Rafael Abreu sent me the link to TED. Today, I am hooked to his TedTalks through iTunes, since all the presentations are available for free on his Podcasts. You can download them to your iPod or [...]
Sir Ken Robinson speaks, from his presentation at TedTalks in Monterey, California, about creativity and the challenge of changing education to value creativity as much as literacy. He identifies the importance of preparing ourselves to be wrong, if we want to be [...]
Photographer Phil Borges estimates that of the 6,000 languages spoken on the planet today, 3,000 are not known by children. In other words, as those who know them die, humanity will lose all the wealth that comes from the legacy of that [...]
USE THE POWER OF TRUST. Forget completely the idea that it is your turn to approve or reject, that this position is a big mistake. If you are going to value ideas, you have to be clear that all have potential, all [...]
There are people who complicate and entangle everything, go back and forth, change their minds constantly, forget what they say, do not allow things to flow, make processes slow and difficult, lower morale and team performance, and use sarcasm to defend their [...]
Among all the possible explanations that connect color to our lives, however, experts seem to agree that at an early age the variety of preferences is greater. In a class of 5-year-olds, when asked what their favorite color is, the answers will [...]
For the third year in a row, ASCAP will be at the Cannes World Representative Meeting in London. When I attended the first one in 2007, it was my turn to make a brief presentation. On that occasion we discussed our arrival [...]
With only a few days to go before the results of the Ojo de Iberoamérica are known, the Costa Rican finalists with a chance for Gold, Silver or Bronze are the following entries: El Ojo Promo PM7 – Positioning El cuarto de [...]
I have been hooked on chairs for about 20 years, when without realizing what we were doing, we bought two white Wassily chairs before returning from Mexico and back to Costa Rica. They were designed in 1925 by Marcel Breuer and we [...]
In the transformation of Tribu into DDB, effective from January of next year next year, I have known since early May Juan Carlos Ortiz, president of DDB Latina. Ortiz, president of DDB Latina. In this interview in June in Cannes, there is [...]
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity for a one-on-one meeting with Kevin Roberts, global CEO of Saatchi Saatchi and creator of Lovemarks. It was 45 minutes of love and respect for the man who has most influenced my professional life, [...]
