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 [...]
With a record 25,660 entries from more than 80 countries participating this year, next Sunday sees another week take off at the Palais des Festivals at La Croissette in Cannes. While almost 5,000 films are participating for Film, “only” 786 will compete [...]
Carlos Gonzalez was my partner, friend, brother in Mexico during the five years we lived there. Carlos died in an accident in his Duccatti at high speed on the highway to Acapulco, and because of this, today he enjoys from heaven the [...]
I don’t think I have told you so far about my passion for chairs, a relationship that began about 20 years ago when, without realizing what I was buying, I bought two Wassily chairs by Marcel Breuer at Knoll in Mexico. It [...]
Last Monday we were connected with Mariela Cruz, impressed, touched, inspired, moved, impacted, seduced. All of us at Tribu were fascinated by the beauty of the movements, the strength of her extremes, the magic of symmetry, the model of discipline and the [...]