. 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 [...]
It is easy to cut advertising, mainly because it is an expense that is not committed and has not been incurred in advance. Likewise, cutting advertising spending is a solution with immediate results and no visible effects in the short term, since [...]
Watching Quién Quiere Ser Millonario is a great experience if you join the Twitters of the country at https://www.monstruolocura.com/qqsm. Today was no exception and for this reason I share it with you. Here I leave you with a small fraction of the [...]
Costa Rica will have two pairs of young talents competing in Cannes next June, as a result of the sum of resources provided by ASCAP, La Nación and Teletica, as well as Grafos, Publimark, Leo Burnett and Tribu, while we are awaiting [...]
With dams in Costa Rica, the question could be repeated and posed only 3 years from now, as we do not see feasible options for a functioning and effective capital city. However, the 8-decade visualization exercise was done in Honda, and the [...]
In a recent interview by The Economist, Bill Gates insists that technology has to work for poor people, and justifies the reasons to be optimistic about the future based on its advantages. His view of the current crisis, and his opinion on [...]
Even with the crisis deep in the minds of the most pessimistic, this data reflects much of the world we are still living in today. If there are those who really think that the recession implies a kind of time-out, perhaps it [...]
