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 Why to How to What.” I was going through the resources in Prezi, when I came across a presentation with Simon Sinek and his 2009 Ted Talk. In today’s day and age it’s like from prehistoric times, and yet with ideas [...]
I agree with the person who said he preferred the future. After all, that’s where we’re going to spend the rest of our lives, right? Hmmm. Not so fast as the only instant we live in is the here and now. Definitely [...]
I have a signal from my body that you could help me interpret: it’s getting worse every year! That is, either the viruses are getting more and more powerful (like influenza), or I am not getting any younger. There could be a [...]
Steve Jobs defined design first in relation to operation and not appearance, so it is not difficult to understand his successes for so many years. Form and substance must tell their genesis from the very same creative moment. Einstein said it and [...]
From the book by Armando Vargas Araya, La Vía Costarricense, published by EUNED in 2005, this is a wonderfully inspiring text as it initiates a broad, open and participatory process. What is La Via Costarricense? It is a dynamic conceptual tool to [...]
Thinking about the Costa Rican Way, a few days ago I wrote a message to my great friend, Armando Vargas Araya, journalist, historian, politician and wonderful human being. In a few words, these were my two lines: Armando dear, whose idea was [...]
Our friends and admired creatives at Del Campo Nazca Saatchi Saatchi took over the summer in Argentina, surpassing Quilmes, traditionally the brand that takes over this season, with this advertising coup for CTI. As in the case of Nike’s “Suda el Jamón” [...]
We must migrate from “the cheapest” to“the best we can afford“. It’s as simple as that, although achieving it can be complex. I believe it is better one good one than five cheap ones, one quality one than twenty mediocre ones, one [...]
The numbers in Africa are horrifying, but even more so is their impact on human lives, their death and the miserable “quality of life” they suffer every day. While in Costa Rica we are approaching a life expectancy of around 80 years [...]
Today we are in black at Tribu, ready for an extraordinarily exciting day. Diego Vargas, a wonderfully talented digital creative presents his exhibition in our space, where imagination shows that it has no limits and in which we see a suggestive fusion [...]
Suddenly there are a lot of them, but they are nothing. They sound like a bunch of hits to me. What do you think? The truth is that it makes sense to write if you are read, but more important is if [...]
Today an obituary was published for La Argolla, and as is their custom, they surprise us again with their initiatives, reactions and outbursts. Undoubtedly of rebellious, irreverent and courageous origin, this company was born and since its inception has provoked controversy, has [...]