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 […]
With only 5 days to go before the Volcano, the ASCAP organization has begun publishing the finalists in each category. For the moment, Radio, Miscellaneous and Graphic Production Techniques have been announced. In Radio, out of a total of 15 finalists, Tribu [...]
. Although the Agency of the Year to be announced next Saturday at the Volcano will be for merit in 2009, it will actually be for getting the juice throughout 2010, January and February 2011. That is, although the work done is [...]
Next Saturday we will have a new Volcano, the eighth to be precise, where 21 companies will be competing with around 500 entries. There will be the agencies that will go for a Volcano or two, as well as those that will [...]
Next week I will have the opportunity to start a new cycle of conferences in universities, to present the story of an evolution. After many years of presenting Lovemarks, in the context of our relationship with Saatchi Saatchi, today we will present [...]
A few days ago we gathered to learn from DDB and its Playbook, a fascinating combination of planning tools to advance in becoming the most influential agency in the region. Here in the photo you will find a good part of the [...]
Without Martin Luther King and his inspirational dream, and visionary dream, Barack Obama might not be the first black president of the world’s most the first black president of the most powerful country in the world. Without dreams and dreams and illusions, [...]
Steve Jobs defined design first in relation to operation and not appearance, so it is not difficult to understand his successes for so many years. Form and substance must tell their genesis from the very same creative moment. Einstein said it and [...]
From the book by Armando Vargas Araya, La Vía Costarricense, published by EUNED in 2005, this is a wonderfully inspiring text as it initiates a broad, open and participatory process. What is La Via Costarricense? It is a dynamic conceptual tool to [...]
Thinking about the Costa Rican Way, a few days ago I wrote a message to my great friend, Armando Vargas Araya, journalist, historian, politician and wonderful human being. In a few words, these were my two lines: Armando dear, whose idea was [...]
A few months ago I decided to accept the invitation to be part of the process of consultation, innovation and imagination ignited by the country project proposed by José María Figueres. It was on February 21, 2012 when I met again with [...]
I took a vacation and came back last Saturday. I took a few days for the coupling and as promised, here I am back on the blog with a song: the most popular. I’m not going to add anything about this case [...]
Back to the keyboard on July 20, greetings!
