2025 has been a year of contrasts—intense, emotional, transformative. It began with a heartfelt farewell and ends with my soul wide open after the magical, peaceful family moments we usually share in Escondida. . In between, there was laughter under a sky full of fireflies outside Kuala Lumpur with my grandson Maurice; a spiritual retreat […]
“From Why to How to What.” I was going through the resources in Prezi, when I came across a presentation with Simon Sinek and his 2009 Ted Talk. In today’s day and age it’s like from prehistoric times, and yet with ideas [...]
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 [...]
Costa Rica’s Young Lions, Humberto Ling and Josafat Padilla, participated with this piece in the young creatives competition in Cannes just a few days after the festival began. In the style of the piece with which they entered the final phase of [...]
When I arrived today in Cannes I found the print competition concluded in its initial stage, as both Josafat Padilla and Humberto Ling, as well as the other 39 creative couples from around the world, competed from Saturday afternoon until Sunday. They [...]
Usually, long-distance training is done on the weekend, because it requires more time, more kilometers and more effort. This commercial, as a good one should be, reflects a truth that is usually hidden: the internal monologue of giving up or continuing, and [...]
I was delighted to come across a small pride of lions in a corner, as clearly it’s more about the journey than the destination. Precisely one year after Saatchi Saatchi New York won Grand Prix and the coveted Lion for Agency of [...]
Javier Mora and Pablo Chaves have duoed up as general creative directors of Tribu Saatchi Saatchi for more than three weeks now, yet no one has seen them at Tribu yet. The explanation is simple: their first day in their new position [...]
