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 [...]
I think we came to have the longest name among advertising agencies in the world: Consumer Exceptional Nazca Saatchi Saatchi. Those were important years in the construction of the DDB Tribe of today, because everything has its history and what has been [...]
When you add up the years, you add up the experiences, Chivísima! They say that old dogs don’t learn new tricks, which is why I won’t stop taking notes, living, listening, learning and growing. The key ingredient is some humility, knowing that [...]
Strength and honor. The story of a general who became a slave. The story of a slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who challenged the emperor. It can be your story and it can be ours. I don’t doubt it for [...]
The B in the DDB brand is for Bill Bernbach, the most important publicist of the 20th century, and whose influence continues to be relevant. No creative advertiser or advertising client should miss this video. From DDB Latina’s YouTube channel.
Today is an exciting day for ideas worth sharing. Dr. Roberto Sasso Rojas and his Technology Research Club (which needs a new logo), presents TEDx Pura Vida for the third consecutive year. As tickets have been sold out for months, if you [...]