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 Inner Mongolia and next to the Gobi desert, a new architectural marvel has been added to the planet. In a bid in the style of Bilbao with its Guggenheim by Ghery, Beijing commissioned this work to MAD Architects 6 years ago. [...]
Let’s talk about your finances for a moment. Are they in balance or out of balance? Are you paying more to your credit card issuer than you’d like? Do you want to buy a house but don’t know how? Is your first [...]
In our soccer countries, very little is known about rugby. For this reason, I include this video in case you want to know the basics of this spectacular sport. After the New Zealand All Blacks beat Canada last Sunday, the best teams [...]
Stefan Asafti has created an interesting project about brands, which he justifies as follows: “The truth is that every pair of rivals has something in common. It has something that has helped them build their identity, all the way to becoming the [...]
The 10th month of the year is October. In Costa Rica it is a rainy month, although this year through HBO it will arrive with the sun. On the 5th and 6th of this month a documentary on the life of George [...]
It has been an event for the country, a publicity moment and a social phenomenon. The launch in the media for Movistar and Claro has generated countless comments and opinions. For, against or the opposite, Ticos are suddenly at the gates of [...]
