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 [...]
“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me”, is the phrase with which Jack Nicholson begins “The Departed”, Oscar for best film in 2006. What do you think? Here are [...]
With an open heart and with all our emotions connected to the inspiring example of Andrea Leñero, I celebrate the opportunity to share with you this message from the BAC and the life of this wonderful girl. For all of us at [...]
Thanks to Edgar Mora for sending me the link!
We have started a national campaign to save the species that become extinct every day in the Osa, for the trees that we do not want to cut down, for the 2.5% of the biodiversity that is concentrated in our most important [...]
El Financiero published this interview, conducted by Daniela Correa, in June of last year. It was published for the second time in the 2006 compilation that circulated a few weeks ago. The complete interview here: https://www.elfinancierocr.com/negocios/jorge-oller/HOWKVPN5QVAEHL3SL7XJJQFNGY/story/
The creative workshop or the free-lance, as we want to call him, has certain risk conditions for the advertiser who hires him, which I will mention below. The creative freelancer, on the other hand, in all his legitimacy and talent, must be [...]
