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 […]
Dr. Roberto Sasso will be hitting a bases loaded home run today with the stadium full to the last chair, as he launched the idea, sustained it and it finally materializes at the Children’s Museum, under license and authorization of TED in [...]
ADLATINA. March 18, 2010 COSTA RICA: TRIBU DDB WAS AGENCY OF THE YEAR AT THE VOLCANO FESTIVAL “Stimulating competitiveness in our markets is essential to win abroad”. The president of Tribu DDB Costa Rica reflected on the reality of regional creativity, with [...]
I find very valuable the discussion that Zunga once again ignites with his opinion, pepper and clarity, and that deserves specific attention and not only as an additional comment. Let’s see the comment he added to my Open Message to Teletica, with [...]
Today I want to send a protest to the friends of Teletica Channel 7, and so that there is no doubt about the intention of my story, I do it in my blog and even a positive proposal. After all, it is [...]
San José – At the recent Volcán Festival, Tribu DDB was awarded the Volcán for Agency of the Year by the Costa Rican Association of Advertising Agencies, ASCAP. With extraordinary creative work for Pinturas Protecto, Credomatic, Aceite Salat, Viceocentro, Osa, Unicef and [...]
Me encontré ésta lista de iglesias relevantes en los Estados Unidos. Impresionante el impacto que están logrando al haber evolucionado con los tiempos. The Openhouse Project en Costa Rica utiliza recursos audiovisuales de North Point principalmente, presente en varias de éstas listas. [...]
A few years ago, when I first wrote this piece in the Costa Rican newspaper La Nación, Apple had just broken ground in an innovative way that had nothing to do with technology, a new device or a new machine. Rather, they’d [...]
It was March 2008 when I programmed the rental car’s GPS to find the closest gas station. I was in Paris and had to fill the tank in order to avoid the steep cost of gas at the rental agency. Since I [...]
When I typed this question into Google, a whopping 241 million results came up. “Holy shit!” I thought to myself. Then, I tweaked my query slightly, swapping the word “world” for “life” and two million more search results were generated. Safe to [...]
My blogging debut was back in 2005 when I first wrote a few lines here, on the Slow Burn blog, named A Fuego Lento in Spanish. Since then, it has certainly lived up to its name; I’ve gone through periods of writing [...]
The Value in Respecting Differences The month of February that is ending has been a personally inspiring experience. On the first of the month, my wife and I took flights from Juan Santamaría airport to Delhi, India. From there, we went on [...]
He began the day’s Keynote by reiterating that we can all transform the world, recalling that a child in Africa with a smartphone today has more information in his hands than the President of the United States 15 years ago. Moore’s Law [...]
