I constantly marvel at infrastructure. Growing up as a "STEM" guy, the world of "construction" was kind of looked down on. Later on, as I started to build physi

I constantly marvel at infrastructure. Growing up as a "STEM" guy, the world of "construction" was kind of looked down on. Later on, as I started to build physical things, and realized how much time, effort, and planning goes into even a simple structure like a shed or a retaining wall, I started to look around and be amazed at almost every bit of infrastructure. Any random building or road you see took so much will and intention just to exist. So many collective man-hours surround us everywhere and are so easy to take for granted if you haven't experienced the process of building something. When I was at the Met in New York, the thing that struck me the most was the building itself. It's almost a quarter mile long. How many individual pieces have been placed? How many light bulbs are there, that need to be maintained and replaced? The amount of infrastructure in Manhattan as a whole, and what it takes to build there, is just mind-boggling. There was construction next to Grand Central Station I think, and there was an absolutely massive crane or backhoe thing sitting on top of the new building, and I thought, how did they even get that there, in the middle of all these constantly busy narrow streets?