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 [...]
After paint explosions and thousands of pellets, the first in Scotland and the second in San Francisco, Sony Bravia invades New York with plasticine bunnies. This is how they did it, hand in hand with Fallon: The end result has been a [...]
Starting next Monday, Tribu, Promotica, Fusion, Centropolis and the :CAMedia planners at Tribu will have a new schedule starting at 9:00 AM. That’s right. We will start in Tribu at the civilized and first worldly time of 9 AM. It’s simple. The [...]
They told me they are from DDB (confirmed), then that they are from La Tres, (negative), then that they didn’t know, and since I haven’t had time to call Eucor to find out who designed them, they are still from anonymous authors [...]