2025 has been a year of contrasts—intense, emotional, transformative. It began with a heartfelt farewell and ends with my soul wide open after the magical, peaceful family moments we usually share in Escondida. In between, there was laughter under a sky full of fireflies outside Kuala Lumpur with my grandson Mauricio; a spiritual retreat in […]
It is easy to cut advertising, mainly because it is an expense that is not committed and has not been incurred in advance. Likewise, cutting advertising spending is a solution with immediate results and no visible effects in the short term, since [...]
Watching Quién Quiere Ser Millonario is a great experience if you join the Twitters of the country at https://www.monstruolocura.com/qqsm. Today was no exception and for this reason I share it with you. Here I leave you with a small fraction of the [...]
Costa Rica will have two pairs of young talents competing in Cannes next June, as a result of the sum of resources provided by ASCAP, La Nación and Teletica, as well as Grafos, Publimark, Leo Burnett and Tribu, while we are awaiting [...]
With dams in Costa Rica, the question could be repeated and posed only 3 years from now, as we do not see feasible options for a functioning and effective capital city. However, the 8-decade visualization exercise was done in Honda, and the [...]
In a recent interview by The Economist, Bill Gates insists that technology has to work for poor people, and justifies the reasons to be optimistic about the future based on its advantages. His view of the current crisis, and his opinion on [...]
Even with the crisis deep in the minds of the most pessimistic, this data reflects much of the world we are still living in today. If there are those who really think that the recession implies a kind of time-out, perhaps it [...]
That’s how we saw the situation about 20 paces away from the group in the photo taken on the sidewalk at the Austin Convention Center. Nothing looked out of the ordinary. As we approached we discovered a sensational situation, cheerful, fun and [...]
As the years go by, in 2012 it is estimated that 50% of sales will be in digital media. Is it possible? For many people like me, we like to buy more and more online. In fact, Aaron Shapiro argues that no [...]
Virtual currency is basically a digital medium of exchange. With a business dimension that already reaches half a trillion dollars in the world, we are facing a concept as difficult to understand today as the credit card was 40 years ago. Reynolds, [...]
Attention! The giant Google is today also a creative agency, working live with clients fascinated to see the innovation it proposes. It has reimagined advertising with its Project Re-Brief? Or is it the same chicken and rice with a different recipe? In [...]
Emily Pilloton presented in the EF Hall at the Austin Convention Center during SXSW and drew us in because of the name of her talk, because she was a TED talker and because she brought ideas worth adding to the moleskin and [...]
I came across this talk and the room was half empty. Then I understood, for at a conference like SXSW on technology and innovation, the topic seemed to be completely out of our interest. And indeed, this turned out to be a [...]