The Slow Burn

Blog since 2005

When Affection Takes Shape: The Art of Detachment in Costa Rica

. Some nights enter our lives quietly and then stay with us forever—unexpected, unforgettable, and impossible not to smile about when we remember them. In my previous post, I wrote about the launch of The Art of Detachment in Madrid a couple of weeks ago—a magical evening surrounded by extraordinary people, where I had the […]

Guatemaya is Only One Letter Away

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 [...]

Uber and resistance to change

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 [...]

Migrating Tribe

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 [...]

Ignoring the Cannes Lions is like Burying Our Heads in the Sand

An Event You Can’t Ignore In our country, the region and around the world, most professionals are unfamiliar with Cannes Lions. This is either because they do not know that it exists or because they have the wrong idea about what this [...]

Inspiration, Inspiration, Inspiration

Awards to Excellence The International Creativity Festival Cannes Lions is a name that is no longer enough to describe and adequately name this event. That is why, I believe it offers not a double but a triple shot of inspiration, because it [...]

Largest Cannes Lions in history kicks off

With more than 40,000 entries competing from every creative corner of the globe, the upcoming Cannes Lions festival will be the biggest, most competitive, most attended and most intense in its more than 60-year history. The competition and global gathering that takes [...]

INSPIRATION

There are people who live inspired and there are people who do not. The difference? Some people read inspirational texts, surround themselves with inspirational people, attend inspirational events, draw from inspirational sources, live in or create inspirational environments, persist in their minds [...]

3.374 PAGE VIEWS YESTERDAY AND 0 COMMENTS

There is no one who understands this blog. The statistics that the system gives me is very limited, and for this reason, I really don’t know who visits it. I guess we are a little bit of advertising friends, or suddenly, many [...]

A380 ONLY FOR THE FIRST WORLD

Can you imagine this aircraft at Juan Santamaría? We need a lot of imagination for this. See it inside and out: The world flies at a speed completely different from ours. While in Panama they started the expansion of the canal for [...]

OF FALLING STOPPED

When in our villages they spoke of someone straight, with good luck or facilities for success, they said that it was someone who “fell standing upright”. When a successful woman married someone with money, they said that “there is nothing like “caer [...]

THE FIRST GREAT IMPRESSION

INFIRMA has acquired a VUTEK, and although it looks like just another large format digital printer, it has a particular condition: it is one of the best in the world today. In fact, it is used to exhibit photography and art in [...]

WHAT IS THE ONEWORDEQUITY OF YOUR BRAND?

On Thursday afternoon at Cannes 2006, Maurice Saatchi rescued a concept that would make life easier for all of us if we applied it. His presentation was boring in the extreme, although I enjoyed it from the front row especially attracted by [...]

The Slow Burn

Blog since 2005

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