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 […]
From Competitors to Great Friends Competition is a temptation I can’t resist. I’m driven by an overwhelming desire to win. That’s why I choose my battles carefully, only entering those where I sense a chance of victory. I have to admit, I’m [...]
I blinked. Usually, it takes barely a tenth of a second to blink; at most, five milliseconds more. And that’s how it goes: in the fraction of a second it takes to blink, more than 650 days have passed since the last [...]
Hello, everyone! It’s been ages since we’ve connected here on the blog. I can barely remember where the tilde or the em dash is on the keyboard. It’s so easy to let good habits, healthy eating, or work-life balance slip away. In [...]
In October 2019 I listened to a chat led by an influential professor at the IE Madrid Business School – Dr Teresa Martin Retortillo. Her talk posed a powerful idea: purposeful transformation. I was listening to it alongside members of the G50, [...]
I’m writing this as I listen to Don’t Call by Desire – it’s on a Spotify playlist made by my dear friend Charlie Ranalli called Retro 80s. There’s a bottle of Glenlivet and a Cuban cigar by my side, and I’m looking [...]
A short line in between words is known as a ‘hyphen’ in English, while in Spanish it’s referred to as a ‘guion’. It comes in varying lengths, including -, –, — and a few more, as I understand it. In the language [...]
In case you missed it, here is the video that reminds us how a story can always remain current and true to its beginning. Eight years after their first wassup, this version reunites the friends and brings them up to date. Even [...]
“Playing for Change” manages to inspire the whole world in an infectious, simple and sensitive way in the midst of all the differences in sight and sound. If we all took it upon ourselves to inspire others, whether in the classroom, the [...]
I’m @joller on Twitter and I invite you to follow me. At the same time, I follow hundreds of people on Twitter, the subject of this talk at the Cannes Film Festival that you can’t miss. At the beginning, people were talking [...]
It is evident that today’s young people have physically distanced themselves from each other, and that unlike our generations, they hardly have the opportunity to move from total distance to a long embrace in movement, as we did when we danced “boleros”. [...]
Just hours away from witnessing Federer achieve what no one has ever done before in tennis history, Lance Armstrong is starting a new tour in France at the age of 37 and ready to continue his extraordinary sporting career. Today morning, after [...]
A few days ago I went from the sublime to the ridiculous in a half marathon and from the first kilometer, when I thought it would be a wonderful experience and ended up being the opposite. In the end of course, the [...]
