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 [...]
Emily Pilloton presented in the EF Hall at the Austin Convention Center during SXSW and drew us in because of the name of her talk, because she was a TED talker and because she brought ideas worth adding to the moleskin and [...]
I came across this talk and the room was half empty. Then I understood, for at a conference like SXSW on technology and innovation, the topic seemed to be completely out of our interest. And indeed, this turned out to be a [...]
Napoletano uses fucking like commas, she’s strong, has an impactful personality and says she doesn’t mind losing business, if she loses it because of who she is. I’m 10 feet away from her as she speaks at SXSW and I can’t tell [...]
A few days ago I came across an ad in the American Airlines magazine that left me impressed. It was about one more sailing ships in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and Costa Rica. And at that moment it was as if the [...]
A new edition of SXSW Interactive is coming (March 9 to 13) and we wouldn’t miss it for the world. Last year I was there for the first time, and now I think it’s going to be hard for me to pass [...]
Chris Dearnley came to Costa Rica some 17 years ago. A Harvard MBA graduate, he traded large corporations and business for his vision of life focused on our country, to plant a Vineyard church and help those most in need. Since then, [...]