. Some nights enter our lives quietly and then stay with us forever—unexpected, unforgettable, and impossible not to smile about when we remember them. In my previous post, I wrote about the launch of The Art of Detachment in Madrid a couple of weeks ago—a magical evening surrounded by extraordinary people, where I had the […]
I agree with the person who said he preferred the future. After all, that’s where we’re going to spend the rest of our lives, right? Hmmm. Not so fast as the only instant we live in is the here and now. Definitely [...]
I have a signal from my body that you could help me interpret: it’s getting worse every year! That is, either the viruses are getting more and more powerful (like influenza), or I am not getting any younger. There could be a [...]
Steve Jobs defined design first in relation to operation and not appearance, so it is not difficult to understand his successes for so many years. Form and substance must tell their genesis from the very same creative moment. Einstein said it and [...]
From the book by Armando Vargas Araya, La Vía Costarricense, published by EUNED in 2005, this is a wonderfully inspiring text as it initiates a broad, open and participatory process. What is La Via Costarricense? It is a dynamic conceptual tool to [...]
Thinking about the Costa Rican Way, a few days ago I wrote a message to my great friend, Armando Vargas Araya, journalist, historian, politician and wonderful human being. In a few words, these were my two lines: Armando dear, whose idea was [...]
A few months ago I decided to accept the invitation to be part of the process of consultation, innovation and imagination ignited by the country project proposed by José María Figueres. It was on February 21, 2012 when I met again with [...]
“Playing for Change” manages to inspire the whole world in an infectious, simple and sensitive way in the midst of all the differences in sight and sound. If we all took it upon ourselves to inspire others, whether in the classroom, the [...]
I’m @joller on Twitter and I invite you to follow me. At the same time, I follow hundreds of people on Twitter, the subject of this talk at the Cannes Film Festival that you can’t miss. At the beginning, people were talking [...]
It is evident that today’s young people have physically distanced themselves from each other, and that unlike our generations, they hardly have the opportunity to move from total distance to a long embrace in movement, as we did when we danced “boleros”. [...]
Just hours away from witnessing Federer achieve what no one has ever done before in tennis history, Lance Armstrong is starting a new tour in France at the age of 37 and ready to continue his extraordinary sporting career. Today morning, after [...]
A few days ago I went from the sublime to the ridiculous in a half marathon and from the first kilometer, when I thought it would be a wonderful experience and ended up being the opposite. In the end of course, the [...]
Today I remembered a campaign to some friends on Facebook who invited me to share this old commercial. Life messes you up, without a doubt, and if there are any doubts, ask Zelaya. It is a video that summarizes a situation that [...]
