Rosauro's Legacy: Value, AI, and Growth in the Digital Age

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Our Family Business Story

Our parents were born just 4-6 years after the stock market crash of . Our father Rosauro spent his early education at Rizal College of Taal (RCTaal), and our mother, Virginia, spent her early education in Sto. Tomas, Batangas. These were a few years before Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was bombed in .

They have withstood the challenges of wartime, which have become the historical contexts by which they valued conservatism, practicality, simplicity, and self-sufficiency throughout their work and life.

Those values produced the resiliency needed in work and life after the War. They practiced it within the extended family business subculture of the Filipinos, especially in business ("MSME") relationships they started and managed very well.

These values are classical. And they are relevant, valuable, and produce a positive impact now.

What do these four values mean?

  • Conservatism: preservation, reliability, stability, durability
  • Practicality: feasibility, workable, valuable, utility
  • Simplicity: clarity, easy to do, solutions-directed, conciseness
  • Self-sufficiency: autonomy, adaptability, resourcefulness, DIY
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Many would gather all these values under the concept of minimalism. But our parents and their "MSMEs" have their own "brand" of minimalism. Philippine MSMEs, professional polyworkers engaged in digital marketing, and consumers of laptop/mobile accessories will see that minimalism works during a recession or an economic downturn. With minimalism as a Philippine MSME and/or professional polywork strategy, it is easy to shift quickly in any changing political, economic, and social environment. It adapts well and is ready to grow when the economy stabilizes.

The "MSME" that produced Rosauro's Legacy Archive

In A.D., our father Rosauro was preparing for his technical retirement from employment at United Laboratories, Inc. (Unilab) in A.D. He invested in a desktop computer with a book on Lotus 1-2-3. He gave the book to me and said: "Takeng, pag-aralan mo 'yan at tulungan mo ako sa negosyo." (translation: "Son, study this and help me with the business.") At that time, I just resigned from my job as a well-salaried economic researcher at NEDA (now the Department of Economy, Planning, and Development (DEPDev) to pursue higher studies. Also, my sister was searching for a better-paying job with more benefits than her radio-broadcasting writing job at DZRT, a Philippine local radio station, and our youngest brother was still in grade 6 at Lourdes School Mandaluyong (LSM), but was aiming to be accelerated and be exempted from grade 7.

I did what my father instructed me to do.

And the rest is family business history. The business took off as a microfinancing service, providing credit access to my father's friends, relatives, and co-employees. This business provided its contacts at United Laboratories, Inc. (Unilab), Greenfield Development Corporation (GDC), EDSA Central Shopping Terminal, Dynavision Development & Investment Corporation (DDIC), and PP&P Insurance Underwriters Agency, Inc. (PP&P), with access to retail consumer goods and groceries at Uniwide, Isetann, Landmark, and at SM Stores and Supermarkets (SM). The microfinance business was simple, practical, and DIY. It helped our family business thrive and profit in the politically, economically, and socially unstable times of the People Power Revolution years.

From that simple business venture with a small PC running on DOS and using Lotus 1-2-3 software, our family continued to conserve resources and preserve the classical values our father and our mother instilled in us till the year . Conservation and preservation are necessary for business to be resilient during hard times. Add simplicity and self-sufficiency to any Philippine MSME business idea, and it will resiliently profit for both the short-term and the long-term.

This is the historical context in which this Blog's content strategy consulting services is based. Rosauro's Legacy Archive is rooted in Rosauro's desire to serve others with financial literacy and discipline rooted in simplicity and practicality.

Applying Rosauro's services to your Polywork or MSME goals

Rosauro's legacy guides this Blog to provide information and content strategy consulting services to Philippine MSMEs and marketing professionals engaged in polywork. We have:

The Archive can is a resource of:

  • Archived product information: money-saving laptop/mobile accessories,
  • Practical strategies for time management and workspace organization: the 5-S Method and Ivy Lee Methodology,
  • info on AI apps and tools for creative, analytical, and job-seeking tasks
  • content strategy services to equip you with insights for polywork and MSME goals.
Growing multi-skilled in the Digital Age of AI & Polywork

Since , the blog has expanded to include topics on productivity, AI, and polywork:

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