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 [...]
I have had my blog in total abandonment for days, not by my will but by the simple fact that I don’t have the time. Is it possible? For this, I plead guilty and so I propose you to take a few [...]
If Don Oscar and his government got a stadium from the Chinese, now it could be the turn of Doña Laura and her government to get one from Qatar. How does that sound? To tell the truth, I would prefer a million [...]
We have already started to upload the presentations of Ignite Costa Rica #1 on its website, and with them a series of lessons learned to improve in the second one. If you were not at the Jazz Café Escazu, we invite you [...]
A few months ago I climbed a beautiful peak in Arizona, on the well-known CamelBack Mountain with Sergio Valente, leader of DM9/DDB Brazil, one of the most creative and winning agencies in the world. It was a fun climb of a couple [...]
The video included in this post summarizes the experience of last October 31, where many of us shared the idea of creating an irresistible space and a relevant environment to learn more about God. Designed particularly for people who don’t like churches, [...]
The Ojo de Iberoamérica awarded a brand new regional Gold to “Puppy” by Protecto, reaffirming what many of us thought: in the last Pregonero Darío Lanis, Alejandro Aguilera and Miguel Ángel Barahona excessively punished a winning piece, for sending a message to [...]
