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 [...]
The greatest contradiction of the document is that it has no advertising, despite the fact that its protagonists gravitate or have gravitated for many years around advertising. Regarding the document, Suárez says that “we don’t care much about the visual, this magazine [...]
I met Carlos Suarez about 5 years ago in Cannes. Editor of Brands magazine in the Dominican Republic, he is an Argentinean with a Venezuelan soul and creative passion as if he were an advertiser. Controversial, provocative and incisive, Carlos came to [...]
In Incae we would say in one word that is the answer to every opinion or solution: it depends! With the theory of relativity explained by Einstein for all other mortals, when you sit with a beautiful girl for two hours, it [...]
FILM, FILM CRAFT AND TITANIUM AND INTEGRATED LIONS WINNERS ANNOUNCED UK WINS FIRST FILM CRAFT GRAND PRIX USA WINS FILM GRAND PRIX, INTEGRATED GRAND PRIX AND TITANIUM GRAND PRIX Cannes, 27 June 2010 – Yesterday, the final night of the Cannes Lions [...]
In a few hours the Film, Film Craft, Effectiveness, Integrated and Titanium awards will be over, as well as the awards for Production Company of the Year, Client of the Year, Network and Agency of the Year, both network and independent. And [...]
At the celebration of 100 years of his birth, David Ogilvy was remembered as saying that advertising is a force for good. He assured that it was about much more than sales and proposed to make a better world with it. In [...]
