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 […]
I have read with interest many predictions for the year, as if they could really serve to anticipate the future. Among many valuable considerations, in practically all of them I have found the recommendation for prudence in 2016 -and the little angel [...]
You might identify with exploration beyond the imaginable. With the unexpected, the search or the unknown. The accidental, the surprise, the fear and the naive. I am trapped by the community in darkness and liberated by the light, always the light, that [...]
Many times we spend our time complaining about something we don’t like or we simply let it go and settle for “what we have” without realizing that we can change things. This is why I want to share with you these tips [...]
The Birth of an Idea Today, Guatemala is living one of the toughest moments in its history, only a few days away from its upcoming and consequential elections, alongside corruption scandals that implicate President Pérez Molina. The uncovering of a network of [...]
A few days ago I heard from a disgruntled young professional about the imminent sale of his mother’s grocery store where he worked. “I have a life ahead of me,” he argued in opposition to the transaction, because in his view, the [...]
A Story of Evolution Some 28 years ago, I began what today is known as a startup, loaded with technology, creativity, and dreams, amid the challenges involved in carving our place among 50 advertising agencies. From a room in my parents’ house [...]
One of the most viral videos of the last few days is the iBand of North Point Community Church. Here you can enjoy it in all its originality and relevance, as I think it should be a place that aspires to make [...]
Today journalist Vanessa Loaiza shined in La Nación with an article that occupied space even on the front page of the newspaper. The headline reads“Mayor of San José offered tramway without technical support“. And then adds in the first line: “In the [...]
I have had my blog in total abandonment for days, not by my will but by the simple fact that I don’t have the time. Is it possible? For this, I plead guilty and so I propose you to take a few [...]
If Don Oscar and his government got a stadium from the Chinese, now it could be the turn of Doña Laura and her government to get one from Qatar. How does that sound? To tell the truth, I would prefer a million [...]
We have already started to upload the presentations of Ignite Costa Rica #1 on its website, and with them a series of lessons learned to improve in the second one. If you were not at the Jazz Café Escazu, we invite you [...]
A few months ago I climbed a beautiful peak in Arizona, on the well-known CamelBack Mountain with Sergio Valente, leader of DM9/DDB Brazil, one of the most creative and winning agencies in the world. It was a fun climb of a couple [...]