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 […]
I do not know its origins and I do not understand in depth its full dimension, however, I am also a victim of the consequences of living in a country so pure life. In the most positive aspect of its content, to [...]
As a university student I was consumed in the politics of those years. In General Studies I was a soldier in the legions of young rebels who made Cotico president of the FEUCR in 1975. Years later, it was I who tried [...]
From vision to reality to illusion to realization, :CAMedia went from an idea to a consolidated success in a very short time. It is clear: the market was waiting for it and Rolando Rodriguez made it a reality together with an extraordinary [...]
Uncontrolled visual pollution: that is what billboards, signs in general and, especially, the recently arrived billboards bring. It is enough to open our eyes to the visual contamination that they bring everywhere, to realize the indiscriminate way in which they invade our [...]
Painter of Eye-Mo, an idea of Tribu for Glaxo-SmithKline and its product Eye-MO. Creative: Mario Calvo, what a great memory, and to you, Marito, a hug and the honor you deserve for a first-world, innovative and daring idea. This is creativity in [...]
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 [...]
