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 […]
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 [...]
I had the opportunity to be in the three matches that the Sele lost in the World Cup in Germany. When we were eliminated in the last game against Poland, it was embarrassing to listen with astonishment to the Tico fans chanting [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ay ay ay, let’s laugh at me… Santo gives us another example of the power of insight when it is taken to an innovative way to discover it with a new lens. Life is how you take it, no matter how you [...]
Today I’m including as an attachment that you can download to your computer, a complete chapter of the book The Lovemarks Effect, which includes the Saatchi Saatchi Forum, for you and for a limited time. It will be on the blog for [...]