Game in the Brain

TLDR: Open Source makes it Cheaper for Everyone to have Technology to Improve their quality of life – for small biz and people to be so much more productive and uplift themselves.  

migrating 300 desktops to Linux because of Windows 11. Main Issues and notes. 

1) Training the IT in a full Linux System: Fiver Southasian Freelancers and OJTs who will document and create their thesis about it. 

2) What about MS Office – MS office in our office license is 2010 telling me that people will use a 10 year plus old format when people now use Gdrive and MS online ecosystems? 

3) What about Autocad and Sketchup – Migrating to LibreCad and FreeCAD and keeping a virtualized desktop we can remote to convert these files (Technicals will activate the remote desktop to download or use it to convert files)? Fiverr Indian Southasian Freelancers are going to be crucial in training. 

4)Trainability of the Company. the average age of the company is shifting as my parent’s generation is transitioning. the Average age will go down and the trainability will go up. (current average age is 40s and it can go down to 30s as the older members retire) As well as we will continue to use Indian services to Skill up our people because its 1/3-1/10 the cost of Local Training.  

TRIGGERING points – as an IT director and business owner

1) 2025 our machines will be 10 years old and we cannot afford to replace 300 machines, 7.5M if we assume only machines will be replaced with i3/r3 8GB 120SSD. Saving 300,000 in licenses assuming 10k per license. My plan is to KEEP our old machines and switch to SSD.  I plan that we will not spend this much and less. 

2) 2025 is the end of life of Windows 10. Note the Increase of cyberattacks in #3. 

3) The Increase of Cyber Attacks and Open System that is not held hostage by proprietary support. Distributed and hardened – with 2F/2S verification/authentication. 

4) STEAMDECK will increase the Linux Ecosystem population by 10M in the next 2-5 years. As companies move to support linux there are more need for Linux Administrators. 

5) Successfully finding Indian Vendors who charge 1/3-1/10 local prices for Training, Tech Support, and are x20-x100x the SIZE of the philippine market. 

6) if the Leader Publicly Learns NEW things like Orbital Mechanics, Programming, Networking, then the CULTURE of the Organization is PEER PRESSURED into being the type of person the leader is. Those who cannot signal alignment in company culture will lack credibility as the Leader sets the Cultural Signals of “being in team”. If the leader takes a hands-on role in Training people – in teaching Thinking Skills then its possible. I have Company Accessible GDOCS of all the things I know and how I think that anyone can recreate my psychological profile and skill base.  

7) A very Modest Cost of Living and Company owner lifestyle – this cannot be done if people perceive me as “different” if the Traditional FILIPINO Status differentiation is eliminated culturally for a FLatter organization its possible to bridge the communication gap between levels of the Company. No “SPECIALNESS” needed – Transparency and reasonable is needed. 

What does this Mean moving forward: 

1) The INCREASE value of our Indian Vendors as we depend on them for this system to work. 

2) The increase of the training and Strategic thinking in the lowest levels of the company. 

3) AN OPEN SOURCE MODEL to share – the narrative of “How we changed to reduce costs so we can deliver more value to our customer” We are open because we sacrifice Information Asymmetry for SPEED of effective communication across all levels of the company. 

How does LINUX affect an Entire COMPANY? 

1) The Price of IT Systems that are CLOSED is 10-100x that of OPEN SYSTEMS. that makes POWERFUL HUGE COMPANIES operate x10-x20 the efficiency of smaller companies paying so much more. Imagine if EVERY small filipino company of 50 people or less have the SAME ERP and IT systems for VPN and remote work and automation but paid 1/10-1/100 the COST. They are 5-20x more efficient. 

For you to understand how COmputerization Affects the Company you have to understand how it affects Operations and Human Activity Scaled and Repeated in the Thousands of Times and how Errors create Rework and Risks. The Technological Literacy to understand this requires to be BORN in the Digital Age while to UNDERSTAND the ERA prior to the digital age and all the LEGACY and Traditional Systems (E goldratt kinda made a series of questions how to understand this = how technology is supposed to be used in a company).