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 […]
From “bien por dicha” to “con mucho gusto”, there are a thousand expressions that are said automatically. Among them there is one that is very common and that is “thank God”. In fact, it is not unusual that when it is said [...]
After my right meniscus surgery three weeks ago, I think I’m going to be all Stiffy when I get back on the streets running. The truth is that everyone runs as they can. That’s not what’s important. The important thing is to [...]
I discovered today that the phrase comes from Louis Brandeis, who summed it up as follows: “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants”. It’s good! I understand he was referring to the contribution of transparency and accountability, as well as [...]
We’ve been connected to paper airplanes ever since Bosz Digital proposed making and flying them. And as close to the heart as they are, this video story sounded sensational to me. Here it leaves you with the craftsmanship, the Heidelbergs, the quality [...]
Last night we celebrated Christmas and the end of a great year. We went to Home in Santa Ana and took over the place. All the people from Grupo Tribu in Costa Rica joined us and we had more than 400 people, [...]
This is your life. Do what you love and do it often. If you don’t like something, change it. If you don’t like your job, quit. If you don’t have enough time, stop watching TV (or facebook). If you are looking for [...]
BRAZIL WINS PRESS GRAND PRIX THE 2010 PRESS Lions’ Grand Prix winner is AlmapBBDO São Paulo, Brazil, for the Billboard Magazine campaign ‘Bono’, ‘Eminem’, ‘Amy’, ‘Britney’, ‘Marilyn’. Jury president Mark Tutssel, Leo Burnett Worldwide’s chief creative officer, said: “The Grand Prix winner [...]
One no longer knows if there is a line between creatives and inventors, between iconoclasts and innovators, or between advertising and what today should have a new name. What is certain is that now online meets offline with above the line and [...]
There are days when everything looks dark and depressing, even though everything around you is bright, inspiring and exciting. We often allow feelings to randomly capture us, without discovering the incalculable power in us to choose them. I’ve heard this phrase: “Pain [...]
This week the Cannes Lions festival awarded the founder of Facebook as Media Person of the Year. They fell short: it should have been Media Person of the Century. At only 26 years of age, today he is the founder of a [...]
After Tuesday night, when Cannes held its open-air party on the beach in front of the Carlton, yesterday I woke up with a severe sore throat that warned me of the inevitable: a cold is coming. I spent Wednesday well affected and [...]
Let’s look at it this way. In a year in which we repeated agency of the year in the Volcano, with lava, fire, ashes and fumaroles included, to then sail the Caribbean alone in a speedboat and bring us more statuettes than [...]
