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 […]
We will be in Antigua for the next Creative Festival organized by Ugap, the Guatemalan Union of advertising agencies. We are going with the intention of enjoying Guatemala, which is a wonderful country, its jade jewel that is the incomparable Antigua, as [...]
A few years ago I started running. First it was a walk around the block to finish it out of breath, and then it was a gradual, slow and very measured increase. Before I had tried it in a hurry, and injuries [...]
In one of the most unexpected appearances in the history of Cannes, Yoko Ono displayed her enigmatic, legendary and captivating personality, moving in moments from the ridiculous to the sublime, from the unusual to the profound. At the end of her 45 [...]
Gold for Peru, Silver for Colombia and Bronze for Denmark. A great year for Latin America in the Young Lions Print Competition at the Cannes Lios Festival 2010.
Every Monday 7:15 PM. ArteCine Lindora. Free admission. Open invitation. Video Talks in English. Thought and designed for people who don’t like church. BALANCED: June 28, June 5, July 5, 12, 19, 26, and August 2, 2010. Can you be unbalanced financially [...]
BRAZIL WINS PRESS GRAND PRIX THE 2010 PRESS Lions’ Grand Prix winner is AlmapBBDO São Paulo, Brazil, for the Billboard Magazine campaign ‘Bono’, ‘Eminem’, ‘Amy’, ‘Britney’, ‘Marilyn’. Jury president Mark Tutssel, Leo Burnett Worldwide’s chief creative officer, said: “The Grand Prix winner [...]
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 [...]
