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 […]
Derek Sivers came to the Zeitgeist to propose that a movement is more about “followership” than leadership, extolling the value of the first follower. The video that illustrates this brief talk, which doesn’t look good, shows a guy who started dancing alone. [...]
So said Ted Turner at the start of Zeitgeist 2010, in an interview that began with Tom Brokaw 1 hour and 2 minutes after the first talks started, while igniting all the batteries in favor of optimism. Here is the full recording [...]
If I had learned to take notes like that… I would have about three doctorates!
Google did a great job with the organization of Zeitgeist 2010 in Scottsdale, Arizona, including attentions and surprises that made the delight, as it was said before, even of the most demanding, among which I am not. Of course, I have to [...]
In the evening we will meet for the first time all of us attending Zeitgeist, organized by Google in Scottsdale, Arizona, just minutes from Phoenix. In the meantime, I’m anxious to get started with tomorrow’s talks and presentations that the battery of [...]
A few years ago a story told me a powerful idea, and today I want to share it with you because it is Children’s Day, in short and simple. I was told that the car of my life should have three passengers: [...]
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has opened an abbreviated festival-within-a-festival program. In a bold step forward, the organization has inserted a festival within the festival, a separate awards ceremony and a specific emphasis on innovation. Data, technology and ideas will [...]
Innovate or Die The conventional view of business holds an arguable principle: “grow or perish.” Due to the usual transactional, incremental, and certainly linear attention within companies, it would seem to be true and sufficient, because we assume things either go up [...]
We have received the welcome news that Ferrán Adrià will be in Costa Rica to detonate innovation and share his secrets in the kitchen. With 1,846 dishes invented during 25 years in the kitchen of elBulli, his legendary restaurant ranked as the [...]
I invite you to get to know Khan Academy. Its mission is to provide free, world-class education to anyone in every corner of the world. For students, teachers and parents alike, Khan has come to deliver an extraordinary solution. It allows you [...]
Perception is reality. Really? Neuroscience observes, measures and analyzes the way our brain works, to remind us that we are complex systems of reasons and emotions, in the simplest possible summary. So, perception is reality? The usual thing is to believe we [...]
Today the Costa Rican National Design Team, grouped together in a natural, informal and spontaneous way, with incalculable talent, heartfelt emotion, visible admiration and genuine spirit of celebration, has rendered a Graphic Tribute to the Sele. Its organizers Marianella Snowball and Noé [...]
