Journal: Infant Industry Argument

Monday location:  Seven     ||     7:55 am – 8:40 pm

• Management:  As a manager, why do I spend more time with product than people?  Not good.  It used to be the other way around; I’d spend about 50-hours a week in people management and development.  Now it’s about 25-hours on average.  It was a slow transition but recently I’ve become hyper aware of that change.  Why the change?  I got very spoiled by how well most people with which I work do self management.  This is a double edged sword.  Self management with limited or no guidance or support is very dangerous.  I obviously like to live dangerously.
• Ride Event:  We’ve got the Mary MeConneloug & Mike Broderick ride project mapped out.  Still working on a few details.  Going public with it later this week.  This ride will be a different format than the Ride Studio Cafe has done before.  We’re doing more mountain bike rides than ever but this one will be different.

• Project Planning:  Met with Dan V. this afternoon about some big projects that we’re putting back on the docket.  Team Seven Cycles 2013, and coded here:  Project Works and Project Travel.  Very exciting.  I’ll start posting soon about these.
• Project:  622 fixturing.  Cost-benefit.  Benefit to who?  How often do I do work that’s not technically correct but is for the benefit of the internal common good?  Usually.  Well, what is the “internal common good?”  Employees with which I work.  Generally, what’s good for co-workers is good for our customers which is good for the company.  But not always.  Deciphering which is true and which is not is not easy – just like this series of broken sentences is not easy to follow.  More later.
• Ride Event:  Fall Five going live tomorrow.

Post title:  “Infant industry protection is controversial as a policy recommendation. As with the other economic rationales for protectionism, it is often abused by rent seeing interests. Even when infant industry protection is well–intentioned, it is hard for governments to know which industries they should protect; “infant” industries may never “grow up” relative to “adult” foreign competitors.”