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 […]
We are looking forward to 2013! I have the impression that we will surpass last year in everything and by far, because we are going with enthusiasm, precision, strength, attitude and character. For years we have based our success on 4 Ts: [...]
To 2012 with gratitude. The year 2012 will always be remembered with wide, high and deep gratitude. It has been a year like no other in virtually every dimension of my life, and therefore, it has been one of exploration, experimentation, innovation, [...]
Can you imagine that Christmas? Among many other factors, it was a couple waiting far from home. There were shepherds with sheep, donkeys, camels and “wise men” on the way, as well as a baby who would come to change the world [...]
With 7 great ideas in 3 main axes, we have made our contribution of ideas to reinvent Costa Rica, with the spring of influence that our movement(Via Costarricense) has thanks to José María Figueres, President of Costa Rica from 94 to 98 [...]
The remotidades of the diary. A few days ago I came across a photograph full of snow-capped mountains. I imagine my pupils must have dilated when I recognized Queenstown and those majestic mountains correctly called the Remarkables, or said in English, the [...]
We will move from words to deeds. Life commitment. A few days ago I was in the Central American city with the questionable distinction of being the most dangerous city in the world: San Pedro Sula. I understand that in this category [...]
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 [...]