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 […]
It transformed the lives of millions around the world, including mine since 1985. Thank you Steve. May you rest in peace. Forever grateful.
In Inner Mongolia and next to the Gobi desert, a new architectural marvel has been added to the planet. In a bid in the style of Bilbao with its Guggenheim by Ghery, Beijing commissioned this work to MAD Architects 6 years ago. [...]
Let’s talk about your finances for a moment. Are they in balance or out of balance? Are you paying more to your credit card issuer than you’d like? Do you want to buy a house but don’t know how? Is your first [...]
In our soccer countries, very little is known about rugby. For this reason, I include this video in case you want to know the basics of this spectacular sport. After the New Zealand All Blacks beat Canada last Sunday, the best teams [...]
Stefan Asafti has created an interesting project about brands, which he justifies as follows: “The truth is that every pair of rivals has something in common. It has something that has helped them build their identity, all the way to becoming the [...]
The 10th month of the year is October. In Costa Rica it is a rainy month, although this year through HBO it will arrive with the sun. On the 5th and 6th of this month a documentary on the life of George [...]
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 [...]
