I start typing with an overwhelming feeling of defeat. Not because the trip at the end of August to which I am going to refer went badly, but because I think it is almost impossible to translate into text what I experienced. No adjective is sufficient to describe what it really means to experience “Burning […]
A few years ago, when I first wrote this piece in the Costa Rican newspaper La Nación, Apple had just broken ground in an innovative way that had nothing to do with technology, a new device or a new machine. Rather, they’d [...]
It was March 2008 when I programmed the rental car’s GPS to find the closest gas station. I was in Paris and had to fill the tank in order to avoid the steep cost of gas at the rental agency. Since I [...]
When I typed this question into Google, a whopping 241 million results came up. “Holy shit!” I thought to myself. Then, I tweaked my query slightly, swapping the word “world” for “life” and two million more search results were generated. Safe to [...]
My blogging debut was back in 2005 when I first wrote a few lines here, on the Slow Burn blog, named A Fuego Lento in Spanish. Since then, it has certainly lived up to its name; I’ve gone through periods of writing [...]
The Value in Respecting Differences The month of February that is ending has been a personally inspiring experience. On the first of the month, my wife and I took flights from Juan Santamaría airport to Delhi, India. From there, we went on [...]
He began the day’s Keynote by reiterating that we can all transform the world, recalling that a child in Africa with a smartphone today has more information in his hands than the President of the United States 15 years ago. Moore’s Law [...]
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A friend, colleague, inspirer, creative, irreplaceable. In the history of advertising in Costa Rica, Hernán Ortega will always be a mark of character, drive, strategy and exploration of the most daring, what had not been done or said before. When I joined [...]
Today all records will be broken, as Nike will have organized the race with the most participants in history by creating the Human Race. Here’s how it works. In 25 cities around the world thousands of runners will participate in the races [...]
This old bald-headed, pot-bellied, rich rich and loud is one of a kind and undoubtedly pure adrenaline at the helm of pure adrenaline at the helm of Saatchi Saatchi. Saatchi. When he was the CEO of Pepsi in Canada, he shut down [...]
