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 […]
Today I came across a fun Facebook post from our agency in Guatemala, the taier / Tribu DDB that has to be shared. And it goes like this: Anthropologists have recorded several tribes in which shamans happened to become a sort of [...]
Bronnie Ware has written a book inspired by her experiences among terminally ill patients. “The Top Five Regrets of Those Who Die” is the title of the publication I just ordered. While it reaches me, I transcribe into Spanish the summary that [...]
If you master Flash, program, know Java, CQ5 or HTML5, if you have the conditions, experience, English and geek quality in all its dimension, we are looking for you at Bosz Digital. This coming Saturday, from 10 AM to 2 PM, we [...]
Since I was a child my family connected me with God. During the first 8 years of my life I was always taken to the Methodist church, and from there I have carried with me bases, values and messages that have accompanied [...]
Press Release. San José, January 16, 2011. Walmart Central America chose Tribu DDB as its new advertising agency in the region, in charge of its popular formats: Palí, MaxiPalí, Despensa Familiar and MaxiDespensa. Walmart’s decision is effective immediately, and was confirmed to [...]
You will probably agree with me that we live between poles. Whether you like them or not, whether they shock you a little or too much, whether they attract you or bore you, life goes inexorably between one pole and the other. [...]
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 [...]
