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 […]
If you want to present as successfully as Steve Jobs did, you need two things. The first is to present extraordinary products, and the second is to follow the advice that I received in my e-mail. Here I copy them for you. [...]
With much emotion and great affection for José María Figueres, former president of Costa Rica, I just finished living the interview that Ignacio Santos of Teletica did with him from his apartment in Madrid. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend you [...]
In a month in which I have no intention of writing about advertising, festivals or competitions, although I do write about celebrations, festivities, family, friends and fun, I would like to tell you that some time ago I discovered three letters that [...]
With the simplicity and elegance that we prefer, this year we have two soldiers at the entrance of Tribu in Bethlehem. Christmas is here and it is time to give thanks, to celebrate and remember its true meaning. All we need is [...]
“Don’t try to stand out in the crowd. Rather avoid them altogether,” says gapinvoid today in its image of the day. The recipe is used by some who, without realizing it in time, become codependent to isolation. The message goes on to [...]
In a few weeks, if the Municipality of Belen deigns to overcome its bureaucracy and finally gives us the permits, we will start the construction of Bosz Digital. The building will be located between Tribu and Colegio Panamericano, with its facade facing [...]
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 [...]
