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 […]
This seeking a relationship with God is much simpler than it sounds, especially if we seek Him for a relationship rather than a religion. After all, Jesus’ invitation to Matthew was summed up in one word: “Follow me”. In the following [...]
NEWS –> Festival – Costa Rica Jotabequ Grey, the Church and Tribu DDB, the big winners of Volcán 2010 (01/03/10). In its first expanded edition, the Volcán festival recognized the best advertising creativity in Central America, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama [...]
Today we could repeat in Tribu enough awards to be Agency of the Year in the Volcán Festival for the second consecutive year. We doubled in finalists to our closest competitor in this contest, jotabeqú, and a little more to Ogilvy, so [...]
Raising the creativity of advertising agencies and commercial communication companies requires a clear understanding of the forces that can improve our competitiveness, so hopefully some key players in the market who are visibly unaware of them will read these paragraphs. And I [...]
The competition has been heating up with the addition of categories and the presentation of all the candidates for Volcanoes. While Tribu DDB has achieved the absolute majority of the finalists, scoring more than any other agency to repeat the top Volcano, [...]
J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo. JK Rowling penned the bestselling Harry Potter page-turners — a spellbinding, seven-installment fantasy of wizards, warlocks and decidedly British texture that brought her from rags to riches. Why you should listen [...]
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 [...]
